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48-540: It was rare for a prisoner to be sent directly to Southport from the outside; virtually all of its inmates were transferred there after committing serious disciplinary infractions at some other prison in the state. On occasion, however, a particularly notorious inmate would be sent there for "protective custody"; that is to say, to prevent him from being attacked by other inmates. One example was convicted child-killer Joel Steinberg . The prison closed on March 10, 2022. The prison opened on October 11, 1988. Southport became

96-582: A friend. When he returned, he refused to help the child and instead freebased cocaine for the next several hours. The following morning Lisa had stopped breathing, and Nussbaum dialed 9-1-1 . After police arrived at the scene, Lisa was transported from the apartment to Saint Vincent's Hospital . The child remained in the hospital for three days, and died after being removed from life support . In addition to Steinberg's deadly assault of Lisa, Mitchell and Nussbaum both showed signs of physical abuse at his hands. In exchange for testifying against Steinberg, Nussbaum

144-560: A native New Yorker and Roman Catholic convert. St. Vincent de Paul is the patron saint of charitable societies. In 1817, four Sisters of Charity from Emmitsburg, Maryland at the request of Bishop John Connolly established an orphanage in New York . As the congregation grew the sisters opened more orphanages and began to staff parochial schools. In 1846, the Sisters in New York incorporated as

192-626: A number of outpatient facilities, had more than 1,000 affiliated physicians, including 70 full-time and 300 voluntary attending physicians, and trained more than 300 residents and fellows annually. As a Catholic hospital, St. Vincent's was officially sponsored by the Sisters of Charity and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn . St. Vincent's was the last Catholic general hospital in New York City. The St. Vincent de Paul stained glass window from

240-468: A reduction in the number of new apartments, funds for affordable housing and arts education in local schools. SVCMC served as one of two academic medical centers of New York Medical College . It offered a well-respected residency and fellowship program, and also served as a clerkship facility for students of medicine, nursing, physical therapy, and occupational therapy: Medical staff residency training records and verifications have become available through

288-554: A separate entity from the Sisters of Charity based in Maryland. They set up a charity hospital to meet the demands of the poor and disadvantaged. It began as a thirty-bed hospital in a small brick house on East 13th Street. St. Vincent's served the poor as one of the few charity hospitals in New York City. The hospital opened on November 1, 1849, during a cholera epidemic under the direction of Sister M. Angela Hughes , sister of Bishop John Hughes . With almost every room occupied by patients,

336-405: A single mother named Michele Launders to locate a suitable adoptive family for Lisa, but he instead took the child home and raised her with Nussbaum. He never filed formal adoption papers, and the child was not legally adopted. Steinberg was under the influence of crack cocaine when he hit Lisa on the head on November 1, 1987. After the attack, he left the apartment for a dinner appointment with

384-647: Is often referred to as the "ground zero" of the AIDS epidemic. As one of the first institutions to address and treat HIV and AIDS in the 1980s, St. Vincent's HIV Center was one of the oldest, most experienced and most renowned HIV treatment programs in the US. It provided coordinated outpatient and inpatient primary care and case management services to HIV-positive adults, pregnant women, and children, and also provided HIV prevention services, AIDS education programs, HIV clinical research, and support groups. In addition, SVCMC developed

432-522: The Bioethics Institute at New York Medical College , The Conley Ethics Department was a leader in the study of clinical medical ethics and spirituality in healthcare. Chaired by Dr. Daniel Sulmasy , the department endeavored to integrate the biopsychosocial model of healthcare within the SVCMC system. Because the hospital was founded and manned through much of its history by nuns, its hospital chapel

480-572: The Chinese community throughout its history. In an effort to reach this underserved population, the hospital opened an independent Chinese-speaking inpatient unit, which employed physicians and nurses who spoke Cantonese and Mandarin . They also opened an outpatient facility in Chinatown, provided a free shuttle service from Chinatown to the hospital, and offered Chinese-focused healthcare services such as Acupuncture and Chinese traditional meals. One of

528-592: The Sisters of Charity of New York . St. Vincent's was the third oldest hospital in New York City after The New York Hospital and Bellevue Hospital . It was founded as a medical facility in 1849 and named for St. Vincent de Paul , a seventeenth-century French priest, whose religious congregation of the Daughters of Charity inspired the founding in Maryland in 1809 of the Sisters of Charity by St. Elizabeth Ann Seton ,

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576-608: The "HeartMobile" in Columbus, Ohio and similar programs in Marietta, Georgia , Montgomery County, Maryland , and Los Angeles in 1970. In 1975, the Puerto Rican extremist nationalist group FALN bombed Fraunces Tavern in the Wall Street area. St. Vincent's paramedics and responders from multiple other EMS agencies transported patients to St. Vincent's Hospital for trauma care. In

624-615: The 1980s, as the gay population of Greenwich Village and New York began succumbing to the AIDS virus, St. Vincent's established the first AIDS ward on the East Coast and second only to one in San Francisco, and became "Ground Zero" for the AIDS-afflicted in NYC . The hospital "became synonymous" with care for AIDS patients in the 1980s, particularly poor gay men and drug users. It became one of

672-491: The Federation Credentials Verification Service (FCVS) Closed Residency program records. St. Vincent's Hospital was a 758-bed tertiary care teaching hospital, at Seventh Avenue and Greenwich Avenue on the border of Greenwich Village and Chelsea . It included: St. Vincent's was the epicenter of New York City's AIDS epidemic. It housed the first and largest AIDS ward on the east coast and

720-432: The SVCMC system filed for bankruptcy . The system launched an aggressive reorganization effort, selling or transferring its money-losing facilities and focusing development on its main hospital, which allowed it to emerge from bankruptcy in the summer of 2007. In the name of modernizing and restructuring, it also announced plans to build a new Manhattan hospital across the street, with a planned opening set for 2011. Part of

768-580: The attendants watched helplessly as those trapped in the fire jumped to their deaths onto the street below. In 1912, St. Vincent's received and treated victims after the sinking of the RMS ; Titanic , while mourning the loss of attending physician Francis Norman O'Loughlin, who died in the disaster. A plaque honoring his memory stood in the hospital's main entrance as a reminder of his dedication and sacrifice. In 1968, under William Grace, Director of Medicine at St. Vincent's, and his associate John A. Chadbourn,

816-420: The best hospitals in the state for AIDS care with a large research facility and dozens of doctors and nurses working on it. ACT UP protested at the hospital one night in the 1980s due to its Catholic nature. They took over the emergency room and covered crucifixes with condoms intending to raise awareness and to offend Catholics. Instead of pressing charges, the sisters who ran the hospital decided to meet with

864-770: The board of directors voted to close inpatient care services at St. Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, and to sell its outpatient services to other systems. The emergency room stopped accepting ambulances on April 9, 2010, and delivered its last baby on April 15, 2010. On April 19, 2010, more than 1,000 staff, representing approximately one-third of the hospital workforce, received notice of lay-off. On April 14, 2010, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The petition, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, showed liabilities of more than $ 1 billion. Saint Vincent's largest unsecured creditor

912-613: The cholera epidemic of 1849 and of the Hudson River landing of US Airways Flight 1549 . It was the designated provider for New York and New Jersey members of the U.S. Department of Defense Health Plan. Over time it expanded to become a major medical and research center. It maintained its connection to the Roman Catholic tradition, and was sponsored by the Bishop of Brooklyn and the President of

960-767: The construction industry. As of 2006, he maintained his innocence. Mitchell was reunited with his biological mother, Nicole Bridget Smigiel. On January 16, 2007, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division (New York's intermediate appellate court) upheld a $ 15 million award against Steinberg to Michele Launders, Lisa's birth mother. In its opinion, the court rejected the position that Steinberg, who acted as his own attorney, put forth: St. Vincent%27s Hospital (Manhattan) 40°44′11″N 73°59′59″W  /  40.736416°N 73.999588°W  / 40.736416; -73.999588 Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers (also known as Saint Vincent's or SVCMC)

1008-530: The former main campus at 7-15 Seventh Avenue was sold to Rudin Management Company for $ 260 million. CBRE Group represented the seller, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers of New York. Eyal Ofer 's Global Holdings assisted the buyer in the sale. At the time of its closure, St. Vincent's occupied a large real-estate footprint in Greenwich Village; it consisted of several hospital buildings and

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1056-495: The hospital established the nation's first Mobile Coronary Care Unit (MCCU) following an example in Ireland. It was configured on a white over red 1968 Chevrolet Step-Van and utilized a portable battery-powered defibrillator/monitor; a battery-powered electrocardiograph, I.V . kit, resuscitation/oxygen kit, and a drug kit. The success of the St. Vincent's MCCU project inspired the development of

1104-531: The hospital introduced its first horse-drawn ambulance. In October 1892, it launched its School of Nursing. The Sisters admitted patients regardless of religion or ability to pay. The doctors from Bellevue Hospital worked at the hospital. St. Vincent's also operated a soup kitchen. According to an 1892 New York Times article, St. Vincent's was distinguished from other hospitals in the city by now for its large number of tramps and other destitute persons". The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got her middle name from

1152-471: The hospital was donated to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey in honor of its legacy of charity. It is on display in the main lobby of the medical center. The building was demolished by early 2013. New York City announced a deal which preserves a historic building and creates a new school on the site. Former City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said that the plan also calls for

1200-725: The hospital, where her uncle's life was saved in 1892 after he was accidentally locked in the hold of a ship for several days without food or water. The school received its certification from the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York in 1905, one of the first such schools to be so recognized. In 1911, St. Vincent's Ambulance, manned by hospital interns, responded to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in Manhattan , where

1248-471: The hospital. A Greater New York Hospital Association spokesman pointed to health budget cuts in Albany . The hospital began discussions with Continuum Health Partners (the parent corporation of Beth Israel Medical Center , St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center , and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary ) and with Mount Sinai Hospital to consider taking ownership of the hospital but both declined. On April 6, 2010,

1296-425: The maximum penalty then available for that charge: 8 1 ⁄ 3 to 25 years in state prison. On two occasions, Steinberg was denied discretionary parole , mainly because he never expressed remorse for the killing. However, on June 30, 2004, he was paroled under the state's "good time" law, which mandated the release of inmates who exhibited good behavior while incarcerated after having served two-thirds or more of

1344-490: The maximum possible sentence. New York State has since increased this ratio to six-sevenths of the maximum term for persons convicted of violent felonies. Steinberg had spent most of his imprisonment at New York State's supermax prison , the Southport Correctional Facility , presumably to prevent him from being attacked by other inmates. After his release, Steinberg moved to Harlem , where he took up work in

1392-593: The member hospitals. St. Vincent's was the primary admitting hospital for those injured in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center . A physician who worked at St. Vincent's, Sneha Ann Philip , was declared missing on September 10, and later declared as the 2,751st victim of the collapse of the towers . Pictures of the missing collected in such large numbers that the hospital dedicated an entire outside wall to protect them. The Wall of Hope and Remembrance

1440-490: The most comprehensive and renowned CF programs in the city, the Saint Vincent's Cystic Fibrosis therapy program offered care for patients with cystic fibrosis and attracted patients from around the region. The Perinatal Hospice was founded in 2007 to meet the needs of parents who have discovered early in pregnancy that their baby is nonviable outside the womb, and yet chose to carry their baby to term. Closely linked to

1488-883: The protesters to better understand their concerns. The SVCMC network was formed in 2000, when St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan, formerly the St. Vincent Hospital and Medical Center of New York, merged with the Catholic Medical Centers of Brooklyn and Queens and Sisters of Charity Healthcare on Staten Island , which included St. Vincent's Hospital (Staten Island) , Mary Immaculate Hospital in Queens, St. John's Queens Hospital, Saint Joseph's Hospital in Queens, St. Mary's Hospital of Brooklyn, and Bayley Seton Hospital in Staten Island. The mergers were intended to reduce costs by improved efficiency and elimination reductant administration, however, it also brought increased debt with

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1536-669: The redevelopment was to include construction of a billion-dollar residential condominium by the Rudin real estate family. The plan was a source of contention with several neighborhood groups, such as the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the Municipal Art Society . The Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the residential components of the plan in July 2009, but by then residential development financing

1584-548: The scene of a riot on June 26, 1990, when fighting broke out among a group of approximately 250 inmates, eight of whom were injured in the melee, along with 19 members of the prison's staff. Another incident, this one involving the taking of four employees as hostages, followed on May 28, 1991. Prisoners and correctional officers injured that day received care at nearby Arnot-Ogden Memorial Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, NY . Club promoter and convicted killer Michael Alig

1632-525: The sisters ate, slept, and rested in a single room or had their beds at the ends of the halls. A typhoid epidemic in 1852, filled the hospital to capacity. After outgrowing those quarters in 1856, the sisters moved to a former orphanage at the then undeveloped corner of West 11th Street and Seventh Avenue . In 1859, a fair was held at the New York Crystal Palace to raise funds to renovate the former orphanage and erect two additional wings. In 1870,

1680-507: The unique Airbridge Project, which coordinates care for HIV-positive patients who make frequent trips to Puerto Rico . Father Mychal Judge ministered to Catholics dying of AIDS in the early years of the epidemic. Tony Kushner features the hospital in his play Angels in America , and it is also alluded to by Larry Kramer in his play The Normal Heart . Due to its proximity to Chinatown, Manhattan , two miles away, SVCMC had close ties to

1728-687: The vote to close came after a six-month-long effort to save the financially troubled institution, but August 21, 2011, prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office were reported to have launched an investigation to determine whether administrators intentionally ran St. Vincent's into the ground. The remaining parts of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers including its nursing homes, home health agency, St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester , and U.S. Family Health Plan, were to continue to operate without interruption, but these entities were sold to other providers' systems. In October 2011,

1776-415: The yard, you spit it on someone. 42°03′02″N 76°47′47″W  /  42.05056°N 76.79639°W  / 42.05056; -76.79639 This prison-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Joel Steinberg Joel Barnet Steinberg (born May 25, 1941) is a disbarred New York City criminal defense attorney who attracted international media attention when he

1824-545: Was a healthcare system in New York City , anchored by its flagship hospital, St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan. St. Vincent's was founded in 1849 and was a major teaching hospital in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City . It closed on April 30, 2010, under circumstances which triggered an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney . Demolition began at the end of 2012 and

1872-417: Was a primary focus of the hospital architecture, and was symbolically nested at the very center of the hospital. The chapel, named for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton , offered daily Mass and refuge for patients and hospital staff. Responding to the unique needs of an urban population, SVCMC instituted a program to help patients provide for their pets during their stay in the hospital. Animals were walked or fed in

1920-490: Was a victim of domestic violence , was a sign of battered woman syndrome . In New York State at that time, first-degree murder applied only to those who killed police officers or had committed murder while already serving a sentence for a previous murder. The jury was unable to convict Steinberg on the more serious charge of second-degree murder , but it did convict him of the lesser charge of first-degree manslaughter . Judge Harold Rothwax subsequently sentenced Steinberg to

1968-545: Was accused of rape and murder, and was convicted of manslaughter , in the November 1, 1987, beating and subsequent death of a six-year-old girl, Elizabeth ("Lisa") Launders, whom he and his live-in partner, Hedda Nussbaum , had illegally adopted . Joel Steinberg was raised in the Bronx and Yonkers , New York in a Jewish family. After graduating from Fordham University in 1962, he attended New York University Law School , but

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2016-416: Was completed in early 2013. Other hospital buildings were converted into luxury condos and a new luxury building, Greenwich Lane, has replaced the St. Vincent's building. For more than 150 years, St. Vincent's Hospital served a wide range of New Yorkers, especially in its neighborhood of Greenwich Village, including poets, writers, artists, homeless people, the poor and the working class. It treated victims of

2064-583: Was dropped in 1964, and joined the U.S. Air Force in the following year. Following his military career, he returned to law school, and was admitted to the bar in New York. Due to the ongoing Vietnam War , lawyers whose studies were interrupted by conscription were exempted from the bar exam requirement, if they met certain requirements. Steinberg shared a Greenwich Village , Manhattan apartment at 14 West 10th St. with Lisa, Mitchell (a younger child, also illegally adopted ), and his live-in partner, Hedda Nussbaum . Steinberg had reportedly been hired by

2112-478: Was maintained for years. Many of the hospitals closed after September 2001. In 2003 St. Clare's Hospital became an affiliate and was renamed St. Vincent's Hospital (Midtown), but it closed on August 1, 2007. St. Mary's Hospital of Brooklyn closed on September 23, 2005; Mary Immaculate and St. John's closed on March 1, 2009, after being sold to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in 2006. In 2005, under financial pressure from its charity involvements and rising costs,

2160-503: Was no longer available because of the Great Recession . The New York State Department of Health has said there was no need for an acute care hospital in Greenwich Village. St. Vincent's announced on January 27, 2010, that its financial situation had soured further and desperate measures would be required to keep the hospital open. Senators, city council members and congressional representatives all became involved in attempting to save

2208-464: Was not prosecuted for events related to Lisa's death. Nussbaum was alone in the apartment with an unconscious and bleeding Lisa for over ten hours without seeking any medical attention for the girl. At Steinberg's twelve-week trial, his defense argued that Nussbaum's extensive injuries resulted from a consensual sadomasochistic relationship between the two defendants. Her attorneys claimed that Nussbaum's decision to stay with Steinberg, even though she

2256-491: Was the PBGC which is a federal pension insurance agency that was insuring the "Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers Retirement Plan" which was a defined benefit pension plan. The pension plan on September 14, 2010, which was the date of termination for the plan had 9581 participants. On April 30, 2010, the emergency room at St. Vincent's closed, officially shuttering the hospital after 161 years. Hospital administrators said that

2304-517: Was transferred to Southport in 2000 and in an interview with New York magazine said: What Southport is famous for is the shit and the piss throwing. Because the inmates have no access to each other, what they do is fill cups up with shit and piss and throw it at each other. You get caught doing it once, they keep your hands handcuffed behind your back so you can't throw anything. So if you really still want to get your neighbor with shit, guess what you do? You put it in your mouth and when you get to

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