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Minutes of the Board of Mangers of Sloane Hospital for Women, during this period operated by the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and located at West 59th St. and Amsterdam Ave.
History and Biography
The Sloane Hospital for Women was founded in 1886 as Sloane Maternity Hospital with a donation by William D. Sloane and his wife, Emily Thorn Vanderbilt Sloane, to the College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S). Sloane opened on the P&S campus at West 59th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in January, 1888. Besides providing low-cost obstetric care, the Hospital served as a teaching facility for P&S students. The present name was adopted in 1910, and a gynecological service was added in 1911.
Administration of the hospital was vested in a Board of Managers which was made up of the Dean of the College, a representative of the donors, a representative of the College’s Board of Trustees (replaced by a member of the Columbia University Board of Trustees when the College completely merged into Columbia in 1891), and two members of the P&S faculty.
As part of the agreement of affiliation between Columbia University and Presbyterian Hospital, the University agreed to divest itself of its clinical units, and in 1925, Sloane Hospital became the obstetric and gynecological service of Presbyterian. After Sloane moved to the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in 1928, the Board of Managers dissolved itself.
Organization
The minutes document professional appointments, patient statistics, finances, the operations of Sloane’s Training School for Nurses (including lists of graduates), and policies and procedures. They include reports of the Superintendent and the annual inspection reports of the New York State Board of Charities and the New York City Department of Public Welfare. Copies of internal and external correspondence are included. Pre-1922 minutes do not appear to have survived.
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Administrative Information
Provenance unknown. Acquired by 1997.