just wait until the dumpster divers tip off the press about the tons of medical records left out on the street...

Check out, "Why Are They Closing St. Vincent's Hospital?"

http://watclosingstvincentshospital.blogspot.com/

A video blog covering the community's failed fight to save

SVH, and the current efforts to preserve SVH's legacy by re-opening a new hospital in the same location.

http://watclosingstvincentshospital.blogspot.com/

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I just saw some of the videos at this site. That was totally disheartening. What a sad reflection this is on this city and it's leadership. I'm really at a loss for words.

BLOOMBERG IS THE WORST MAYOR NEW YORK CITY HAS EVER HAD!*

* Unless you're rich, filthy rich.

I cannot believe that we, New Yorkers, are allowed St. Vincent's to close without an uproar. It's inconceivable that this was viewed as "business as usual". I don't care how much money it lost, a hospital is not a business. It obviously needed a better management team but the community needed it! What will happen during another 9-11 type of attack? Where will the victims go? We should be looking at ways to expand healthcare in New York not close facilities such as this. I can't believe that for years New York has been trying to save OTB yet no one has tried to save St. Vincent's Hospital. I blame every elected official who has stood by and said nothing as this has happened. As much as Bloomberg has fought for stadiums, pedestrian walkways, etc. and there was no talk of trying to save St. Vincent's? There's no way that St. Vincent's was beyond saving, I don't buy it, not when we're going to spend 30 Million on another pedestrian walkway on Herald Square or spend 50 Million on Governor's Island.

Now a fully furnished medical institution, in the heart of Manhattan, will be torn down and become yet another co-op or condominium, as if Manhattan doesn't have enough already. How many people are they going to pack into this island? And where will they get their healthcare? And in an emergency where will they go?

Shame on all you politicians for allowing this to happen without at the very least putting up a fight!

I had an dea for Mr.Bloomberg that could've earned him the legacy he so desperately seeks and would have been beneficial to New York City. He could've used his money to save St. Vincent's Hospital. I heard they were $800 million dollars in the hole but that's small change to him, right? I mean he wasted close to that "buying" NYC in his re-election campaigns and he always said he wanted to be a philanthropist. We could've renamed it "Bloomberg City Hospital" and have a huge neon sign and even a statue by the entrance so everyone will remember what a great man Bloomberg was and how he saved our city. Now that's a legacy! But unfortunately Bloomberg's legacy will just be faded bike lanes, beach chairs at pedestrian walkways and silly pet projects that the next mayor will undoubtedly cut in his/her first term. So sad.

there are many non profit medical clinics and I am sure a few hospital could use some of this stuff . it would be a sin to destroy the equipment .I requested my medical records before the hospital close from two different areas of the hospital one set I have not recieved yet and they called me on the other the files were for doctors who had offices in the spellman building the hospital was not made aware by that office that peoples personal files were in there so anyone could have gone to that floor and walk right to the file cabinets they cannot find my files now. for my own safety I might have to contact the credit rating companies and have them put a flag on my records because things like my insurance ,social security number, birthdate and address were in those files.

i still can't get over it. the fact that the mayor and other city "leaders" let St. Vincent's close is a fucking disgrace.

im sure theres plenty of medical fetishists,(for obvious reasons) design stores (for the metal cabinetry) and movie prop houses (for set deisgn) that could have and would have gladly paid good money for this "trash"

There are a lot of charities that could use these supplies; it's kind of shocking that they would just leave them outside to rot.

Afya Foundation

The Afya Foundation provides international health organizations and professionals an up-to-date computer-based inventory of medical consumables, sustainable equipment, medical office, and community outreach supplies available to meet the needs of health centers and patients in Africa.

Catholic Medical Mission Board

Through Catholic Medical Mission Board's Medical Supplies for Mission Trips program, needed medicines and supplies are provided free of charge to medical missionaries.

InterVol, Recycling of Unused Medical Supplies (RUMS)

InterVol’s RUMS program saves medical supplies and equipment that otherwise would be destroyed or placed in area landfills and are made available to overseas hospitals and medical clinics that lack access to these badly needed resources.

Project C.U.R.E.

Project C.U.R.E. is a humanitarian relief organization that collects medical supplies and equipment and donates it to developing countries.

That's great, and I don't disagree with you, but... what non-existent employee of the non-existent hospital do you want to contact these organizations? St. Vincent's is dead, there is nobody on staff, because there is no staff, to give this stuff away.

not existant employees must have dumped those items.

if you need your medical records contact the non existant hospital

St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan

Attention: Medical Records

170 West 12th Street

New York, NY 10011

You should receive your medical records in about two or three weeks.

I live right near this trash pile. It seems so incredibly wasteful. There's got to be a clinic or a school or something that could use this stuff.

"P-p-p-please d-d-don't tell my m-m-m-mother."

hah! what i can do with one of those "recliners"... hehehe.

mine, mine, mine!

note to self: wash everything thoroughly, preferably with bleach.

The scumbags are in such a rush to turn this into yuppie condos that they'll just toss this valuable equipment into the street rather than donate it to a needed cause.

The closing of St Vincents Hospital will one day be compared to the destruction of Penn Station as a travesty of misguided priorities in the Guiliani/Bloomberg era.

What do you mean about penn station?