Richmond University Medical Center

Richmond University Medical Center^[1] is a hospital in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York City.^[2] The hospital occupies the buildings that were formerly St. Vincent's Medical Center, which closed in 2006. It is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System^[3] but is not a member of the health system.

Richmond University Medical Center
Geography
Location	355 Bard Ave, Staten Island, New York, United States
Coordinates	40°38′08″N 74°06′22″W
Organization
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Affiliated university	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Network	Mount Sinai Health System
Services
Emergency department	Level I Adult Trauma Center / Level II Pediatric Trauma Center
Beds	448
History
Opened	1903
Links
Website	www.rumcsi.org
Lists	Hospitals in New York State
Other links	Hospitals in Staten Island

History

Richmond University Medical Center was established on January 1, 2007. It is a Level I Trauma Center located in Staten Island, New York. The original hospital on the site, St. Vincent's Hospital, was opened in 1903 as a 74-bed facility under the direction of the Sisters of Charity of New York in what had been the Garner mansion, a mansard-roofed stone building built by Charles Taber and later owned by W.T. Garner (the building had been offered to ex-President Ulysses S. Grant as a retirement home, but Grant and his wife were reportedly put off by a summer swarm of mosquitoes). ^{[citation needed]}

Garner mansion

The mansion still stands on the grounds. The hospital greatly expanded and modernized over the years, and the Sisters of Charity Healthcare System expanded to acquire the former U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in the Stapleton neighborhood of Staten Island, renaming it Bayley Seton Hospital. In 1999 Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center of Manhattan, originally a separate institution founded by the same sisters, took control of the facility as part of a major restructuring of the overall community of Catholic healthcare facilities in New York. ^{[citation needed]}

In 2006, St. Vincent's on Staten Island was sold to Bayonne Medical Center and spun off as Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC).^[4]

Although largely non-religiously affiliated, a cross that adorned St. Vincent's Hospital, on its main building, remains; another cross, on the Villa Building, has been removed. ^{[citation needed]}

Campuses

• 355 Bard Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10310 (West Brighton)
• 75 Vanderbilt Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10304 (Stapleton)

Number of beds

The hospital is licensed to operate 448 beds.^[2]

• Bed Type #
• Alcohol Detoxification - 7
• Coronary Care - 10
• Intensive Care - 20
• Maternity - 34
• Medical-Surgical - 291
• Neonatal Continuing Care - 6
• Neonatal Intensive Care - 8
• Neonatal Intermediate Care - 11
• Pediatric - 23
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit - 3
• Psychiatric - 35

Ownership

• Sisters of Charity Healthcare (1903–1999)^[5]
• Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center (1999–2007)^[4]
• Richmond University Medical Center (2007–present)