Bellevue, America's oldest public hospital

[@shuffleaccount1985]

thank you for this information, I did not know this. Truly Amazing!!!!

[@redcokamixed6716]

This makes me proud to be a nurse.

[@ronlinfonte2651]

My grandfather went to NYU-Bellevue Medical College...Class of 1922. He graduated and was asked to stay and serve as a Professor but he chose to head to Newark NJ and set up practice.

[@judithmcbride4023]

Amazing!! I had NO idea!! Bless All those past and present who choose to work there!❤️🙏🎚

[@maureenwalters9572]

My father, George H. Long, was the “charge” nurse of the psychiatric ward at Bellevue Hospital in the 1940’s

[@blackdogslivesmatter1568]

That must have been one hard and scary job. There are so many mentally sick people in NYC that are just tossed to the side and live on the street. It must have been a very interesting job and never know what you would be doing day to day but not a job for most nurses. Cudos to your dad. He must of had some great stories to tell at the dinner table.

[@Burningredroses]

Pysch is the best part of nursing.

[@jodrew1845]

@@Burningredroses until you're assaulted by a patient. It's then time to move on to another specialty, ijs.

[@Burningredroses]

@@jodrew1845 I work in a nursing home, I've been assaulted before. But I get what your saying. It can be very dangerous.

[@kishascape]

@@Burningredroses well at Bellevue you were allowed to abuse the patients and do inhumane things for so long. So the people weren’t as dangerous but were made that way by the system.

[@Pink_143_6]

In 1985 I was in nursing school and took care of our states first AIDS patient as we knew to be AIDS. I’ll never forget the fear of the unknown ( transmission) & being told if we didn’t take care of an AIDS patient we’d be dismissed from nursing school. I’ll never forget that patient and the fear in his eyes as he was dying. I gave him compassion and dignity and I hope he knew that deep down inside , he was loved by us. His family never came to visit him. The public was literally in fear of catching this awful virus 🦠 🙏🏼

[@jcfh19981]

My grandmother, Thelma Maneilly, and her cousin, Blanche Sigman, graduated from the Bellevue Nursing School in 1929. I have her yearbook and tons of pictures!

[@marcellamorales1320]

great you should share thats pics for a documental about that hospital and to create a book or documents to people can learn as me........bye from chile suramerica

[@catrionadreelan7773]

My grandmother worked in the Bellevue Hospital at that time as a Office Clerk they could of known each other

[@newyorkcity76]

I had surgery In Bellevue hospital wonderful staff thank you all

[@bliastreb6466]

I am proud to be a Lower East Side New York City baby from Bellevue, as is my brother. I'm proud to say that Ma (an RN) used to say, if you're in need and can talk say "Take me to Bellevue!". When I was eight and broke my finger, we went to some fancy-dancy clinic. After waiting more than a half hour (the Contac was wearing off; and I was crying from the pain), Ma got up, went to desk and said " Tell the F+ing dog doctors I'm taking my son to Bellevue"! To all 'Bellevue-ians' on the Coronavirius front lines: Thank You from a transplanted Mainer for your heroism !

[@blackdogslivesmatter1568]

I thought they called people living in maine maniacs not mainers. At least thats what I called my ex and his lunatic family. They would definately be candidates for the psych ward there.

[@margis.5873]

I believe that my grandmother, Elizabeth Butler Ketchum, attended the Bellevue school of nursing in the late 1890's. I’ve been told she was a highly skilled nurse and diagnostician.

[@noorgonzalez1076]

I am sure she was🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@noorgonzalez1076]

John 5:28 Revelation 21:3,4

[@marcyjames1]

Did nurses diagnose illnesses back then?

[@mollywoolsey7677]

I was born in Bellevue hospital July 1956. Also my father was a frequent guest of their alcoholic ward.

[@RDnAC]

My dad went to medical school at NYU and did his internship at Bellevue.

[@theoneleggedchef]

I loved this story! My Grandma was born in the the city, New York. She just called it the city, in 1917. I'd heard her ans my great uncles talk about those times. But ..having this documentary put a multifaceted face on this that, in a way puts the optics on a slice of life then? I love history, and learning, I want more. But thanks for what has been given!

[@deniseroe5891]

I live in Bellevue, Texas that is. Is a wonderful hospital, it has done do much for NYC.

[@maryannedelaney]

Wow. I thought it was just a small psych hospital in NYC. It was great to learn all about the hospital. Thank you.

[@kishascape]

It’s the most popular and classical nuthouse. Couple reporters pretended to be insane and got themselves admitted and later wrote exposé articles about the abuse and poor living conditions that made it a mainstay in pop culture.

[@maryannedelaney]

@@kishascape that’s horrible.

[@hsrviews]

My mom was born in the first Bellevue hospital and me and my sister was born in the new current one, our doctor since infant was a beautiful nice sweet lady with long long hair Dr wallen or Dr wallin, she unfortunately passed away of cancer, but still was working until her passing. She was a legendary pediatric doctor, I miss playing in the play room and then wen I got a lil bigger I would get to go to the other play room that was more making crafts and paintings and beeds. What an awesome memory.

[@ERICK-di1yz]

The play room on the 4th floor? Amazing times, I remember the playroom with me and my brothers. Wish I could bring back the 2000s 😪

[@USA92]

I was homeless. In New York. The old hospital had been turned into a homeless shelter. Part of New Yorks dealing with the homeless. The state finds sending you out of state to get rid of you is the answer. They have you call someone who will answer the phone. They get on the phone and so long as the person on the other end says you can stay with them New York pays for it. Their best way of dealing with the homeless in need of help is to get rid of you. That is the legacy of the old Bellvue hospital today. The new hospital is a walk away. A good hospital with good people trying to help others.

[@jai7184]

Shadow The “new hospital” still house homeless ! People that were there when sick and are displaced for one reason or another are living there

[@USA92]

@@jai7184 Really? Okay thank you for the info. Stay healthy and the best to you and yours.

[@cards0486]

I guess because it’s an NBC program they didn’t bring up that “NEW AMSTERDAM” is based on a book that a doctor wrote about practicing at Bellevue. It was “Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital” by Dr. Eric Manheimer.

[@WOOF95]

Great story!!

[@petergamer9022]

Like for all the doctors around the world!!

[@AC-qi9wo]

Learned something new today;).

[@Laurieis1]

This is awesome

[@blinkcamlove]

I went to NYU dental (around the corner of Bellevue) and I used to walk to Bellevue to study. After I graduated and started my residency, the Ebola crisis came and went to NYC. It was at that moment that I began to think of the possibility of a more contagious outbreak with no cure. But I remember thinking hey if it’s that contagious doctors would be doing everything to find a cure/vaccine. Little did I know that 5 years later coronavirus would change our world forever.

[@hsrviews]

The hospital has a school on the 20 or 21 floor, they had a Christmas album with music teacher Anna opio, and I sang lead on two songs, also I wrote a poem entry to represent that school in the hospital and I read it at a poet reading of different bored of education school entries, I also worked with the director of house keeping as there receptionist for 2 summers, all of this in 1995 to 1997.

[@suzanjurist2339]

My mom worked at Bellevue in the 1940s

[@catherinetimmerman5212]

An incredibly interesting video!!

[@StevenTorrey]

It was a favored punchline in "Barney Miller"....

[@rajdipsutradhar6414]

6:30 the same case in Kolkata govt hospital 8th August,2024 😢, the whole country is shocked and depressed 😔

[@JoseMorales-lw5nt]

6:17/ Nothing new - Lee Harvey Oswald and John Fitzgerald Kennedy both took their last breath at Parkland Hospital near Downtown Dallas, Texas. Supposedly in the same operating room. 🇵🇷🇺🇸🤔

[@patriciaasturias1007]

Jose Morales JFK died in the car. If you look at an unedited film, you can see the blast destroying his head.

[@JoseMorales-lw5nt]

@@patriciaasturias1007 Meanwhile, the official medical report from Parkland Hospital indicates that the President did, in fact, have a faint pulse and heart beat upon being taken into the OR. Pretty gruesome detail most folks don't like to hear. Yet, this man was shot in the head. His heart was still beating from moment of assassination to his last breaths inside Parkland. 🇺🇸🇵🇷😪

[@patriciaasturias1007]

Jose Morales I don’t know that any report can be trusted as the coverup was so widespread.

[@JoseMorales-lw5nt]

@@patriciaasturias1007 I'll grant you that one. Yes, I'm of a younger generation that didn't experience his death first hand. Yet, I've always had my doubts about the whole mess. We common folk only have the Zapruder film, thank God! Whether a bullet was meant for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, we'll never know. Yet the film shows no shots to the heart. Shame that no future generations will ever live to see the truth 🇵🇷🇺🇸🤔

[@theoneleggedchef]

Life long Dallas, that's quite possible. From what I understand Parkland at the time had 2 fully equipped ER Rooms. So odds are, gunshot patient Oswald was in same room, or next to. Honestly, I have no opinion. I like history, hate violence.

[@RDnAC]

John Lennon was rushed to and pronounced dead at Roosevelt Hospital (now Mt. Sinai) not Bellevue.

[@GodsArtGallery111]

That’s what I thought…

[@poppetrurazvan3900]

Verry interesting.

[@misstekhead]

I’m too paranoid to give away any personal information, but all I’ll say is that I’ve had 2 family members spend time at Bellevue in the 1960s to 1970s, and the other during the 1990s. Both were placed there due to mental health issues. (Supposedly.) One was turned into a zombie that never recovered, and the other was given shots of Valium and other psychotropic drugs against their will. The 2nd family member was trans and even into the 1990s that was still considered a mental illness. She later took her life.

[@rwnorris24]

Fresh air really does help.

[@ekop1778]

1.13 THATS A PHANTOM SPIRIT LOOMING ON THAT PIC

[@sdm4186]

Do they take patients with no health insurance? Just curious.

[@jai7184]

S DM yes we do !

[@sct4040]

NYU Langone (up the streets) sends patients there, the poor, so what do you think?

[@rebeccajelenawang4306]

Got mugged in NYC back in 2010.I'd been in Canada for like three months or so,and visited nearly 15 states too.Anyways,this idiot took all my cash,ID,passport,insurance and meds.Bellevue did indeed help me, but I got discharged twice and really had to fight for my rights to put it that way.A nurse called me European vegetable"tho.I met some really nice ppl I'd like to thank for treating me with respect and dignity.It helped a lot🙏🏼

[@uinisefoochong5917]

The hospital I was born at had a name change

[@ruthanncaldwell5705]

You should do a story about GABLER CHILDREN HOSPITAL in waltham mass now closed

[@johnsalazar8969]

I was referred to this hospital when I was 18 and my dad was like I don't think so

[@sumonanny]

John Lennon was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, not Bellevue.

[@spicex4k901]

Bellvue turns away 98% of applicants

[@laurawesoff5732]

He didn't show Alice's line as the setup.

[@laurawesoff5732]

I call you killer because you slay me.

[@Thesolution2023]

Pray for Jonathan Charles Johnson. He is often admitted here they stabilize him send him off with no were to go back into the street. NYC politicians should be ashamed. Jonathan please come home.

[@christinestange4813]

I took my NP State Boards there in 1980.

[@jimrogers9253]

WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!! john lennon was taken by police car to roosevelt hospital which was the nearest to the dakota apt. building. he never came to bellevue. i was the thoracic surgery resident on call at bellevue and in the er that night. the fellow in the video is not in command of his facts. jd rogers,md

[@mariejones3913]

the horrors that went on in that place.... smh “practicing” medicine!

[@loribau2842]

what does smh mean?

[@jasonchristian958]

@@loribau2842 shaking my head

[@loribau2842]

alrighty, been wonderin that for a while, thanks Jason

[@jasonchristian958]

@@loribau2842 you're welcome 👍

[@jodrew1845]

@@loribau2842 'Shaking My Head.'

[@Stephanie-vn6ir]

Back in the 1990s I had a friend who had a nervous breakdown and she checked herself into Bellevue.😳😊

[@georgejungle138]

Liberalism?

[@godoggo407]

God love Bellevue!

[@markpedroza7294]

Charlie Chaplin's father in law Eugene O'Neill was at Bellevue? I wonder why...

[@erikperez4829]

my mom always told me i’d end up at bellevue hospital now i work here so i guess she was right 😂

[@jordanoutten746]

Im sure I'd see one or two apparitions..

[@rememrald30]

did he just say irish- my mother was so clean u could eat off of her floor- someone is getting called.

[@valtoton2982]

*New Amsterdam*

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

The Psych ward is how I heard of the hospital.

[@ceejay1794]

John Lennon was taken to Roosevelt Hospital on 59th St, NOT Belleview. Get your facts straight.

[@ceejay1794]

Kathleen Flacy ok Kathreen

[@Sammy-mp9xn]

Ok boomer

[@ceejay1794]

Carolina Barbie yes, and you must not be. Sad. You’re the generation who thinks it know everything yet has experienced nothing.

[@FMD321]

6TH FLOOR

[@jeannetruitt7176]

I thought it used to be a Mental hospital according to Barney Miller

[@corycampman7336]

Was that a picture of a young Joseph stalin in that one frame or am I seeing things lol?

[@rememrald30]

nellie da detective

[@petechippas4586]

The psychiatric hospitals in the USA should have NEVER have been closed permanently, because there are now millions of Americans that need to be committed to them!!!

[@matthewaskaran1912]

Exactly

[@jeansteele6698]

The Carter Administration must be blamed . Mrs. Carter played the lead role. Agree. Open up some hospitals. Outpatient therapy is inadequate .

[@kathrynedmunds9321]

My best childhood girlfriend began serving humanity's ill after a super med school class score. The woman, i hope is live an still busy ! Love her always ! Know her? Surgery , mental ills doctor ? Susan, kathy is cool still dreaming the feeling of hot sands an the Colorado.

[@Sammy-mp9xn]

2:19😲😂 those 2 guys are having a gay ol' time

[@esgee3829]

so what i got from this is that mo rocca is a REAL journalist now when did that happen??????????????

[@uinisefoochong5917]

Martin Luther King hospital

[@freolampkin1831]

Sistha tell send 1795, 3 decades

[@jasonchristian958]

Let's tip toe around on the 6th floor

[@uinisefoochong5917]

I hate hospitals

[@AlwaysAskQuestion]

I use to be there too