New York Nursery and Child's Hospital

Forerunners to the Hospital included the Marion Street Maternity Hospital, which was organized in 1823 and then incorporated in 1827 as “The New York Female Asylum for Lying-In Women." Its stated mission was: :To furnish comfortable conditions and skillful attendance to respectable married women who require an asylum during the period of their confinement, and also to supply competent medical care to deserving married women at their homes under similar circumstances. Its specialty departments were discontinued and their services were taken on by other New York City institutions. The hospital's foster home became the New York Child's Foster Home Service. ==References==