Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn
The Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn was a Jewish hospital in Brooklyn , New York City . It opened in 1901 and moved to a building on Prospect Place in 1927.
In 1936 Ulrich Friedemann from the former Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases , Berlin, became head of the bacteriological department. Albert Einstein was operated on here in the early 1950s.
In 1979 the hospital had to file for bankruptcy and in 1982 merged with St. John's Episcopal Hospital to form the Interfaith Medical Center . In 2000, the Interfaith Medical Center moved to the former St. John's area across the street.