page_title: Lenox Hill Hospital
section_title: Contributions to modern medicine
hierarchical_section_title: Lenox Hill Hospital / Significance / Contributions to modern medicine
caption_attribution_description: English: The Lenox Hill Hospital sidewalk clock at 1094 Lexington Avenue between East 75th and 77th Streets in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.
context_page_description: Lenox Hill Hospital is a nationally ranked 449-bed non-profit, tertiary, research and academic medical center located at the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, New York, servicing the general area. LHH is one of the region’s many university-level academic medical centers. The hospital is owned by Northwell Health and is one of the largest hospitals in the system. LHH is affiliated with the Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York Medical College, and State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine.
  It was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary. It currently consists of ten buildings and has occupied the present site in Manhattan since 1905, when it was known as the German Hospital. In 2007, the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital was incorporated into Lenox Hill Hospital.
  The hospital is located on a city block bounded on the north and south by East 77th and 76th Streets, and on the west and east by Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue. The New York City Subway's 77th Street station is on the same block.
context_section_description: The hospital became a leading innovator in medical care, developing and implementing many standards and practices that would later become indispensable components of modern medicine.
  In 1897, the hospital installed one of the first X-ray machines in America. Ten years later, the hospital established the first physical therapy department in the country. In response to what was becoming a growing public health threat, it was the first general hospital in the U.S. to open a tuberculosis division. In 1973, the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma became the first hospital-based center in the nation for the study of sports medicine.
  Early on, the hospital established itself as one of the nation's leading hospitals for cardiac care. In 1938, the first angiocardiograph in the country was performed at the hospital, and in 1955 the hospital became one of the first in New York City to open a cardiac catheterization laboratory. Ten years later, the hospital opened the first cardiac-care unit in the metropolitan New York area.
  In 1978, the first coronary angioplasties in the country were performed at Lenox Hill Hospital and at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco, California. In 1994, Lenox Hill Hospital surgeons pioneered minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery and in 2000, the hospital was the first in the U.S. to perform endoscopic radial artery harvesting. In 2003, the first drug-coated stent approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was implanted at the hospital. It is also one of the first hospitals in the nation to acquire a state-of-the-art robotic cardiac system, which allows surgeons to perform minimally invasive heart-bypass surgery.
  In 2000, Lenox Hill Hospital became the sponsor of Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital.
  Continuing its tradition of care during times of crisis, the hospital assembled a disaster team to care for casualties of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in 2001. Emergency crews were sent to Ground Zero and supply runs to the area were conducted to aid the rescue workers. The hospital set up a free walk-in Crisis Counseling Center, staffed by the hospital's psychiatrists and therapists, and the blood donor center was expanded to accommodate the thousands of people who came to the hospital to give blood.
  In 2007, the hospital celebrated its 150th anniversary, and expanded its dedication to the New York City community by opening a new, state-of-the-art emergency department, the Anne and Isidore Falk Center for Emergency Care at Lenox Hill Hospital.
caption: The Lenox Hill Hospital sidewalk clock on Lexington Avenue
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