Updated: 26 June 2002

Western New York Hospitals
Yesterday & Today

Many thanks to John Dahm, for the updated information.

(1) Year established (2) Other name(s) (3) Other address(s) (4) Services @ Active


City of Buffalo and Erie County Area Hospitals

Erie County

Kaleida Health Care System

Catholic Hospital System
Buffalo General Hospital
Children's Hospital of Buffalo
DeGraff Memorial
Millard Fillmore Hospital Kenmore Mercy Hospital
Kenmore Mercy Hospital
Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Health center
Mercy Hospital
Our Lady of Victory Hospital
St. Joseph Hospital

A
Accident Hospital see Emergency Hospital
 
Acute Communicable Disease Hospital see Erie County Medical Center


B
Bethlehem Steel Company
Lackawanna, NY
 
Booth Hospital
Formerly German Hospital
 
@ BryLin Hospital
1263 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 (716) 886-8200
(1) 1955 - present
(3) Linwood Avenue and Bryant Street (1955 - 1976)
(4) Psychiatry and Addiction treatment.
 
Buffalo Cancer Hospital
(1) active in 1899
 
Buffalo City Hospital
(1) November 1847 -
 
@ Buffalo Columbus Hospital
300 Niagara, Street Buffalo, NY 14201
(2) Merged with Buffalo General Hospital in 1996
and is now Buffalo Columbus Hospital and Family Health Center
 
Buffalo Dispensary
(1) 1841 - ?, First services to the ill.
 
@ Buffalo General Hospital*
100 High Street, Buffalo, NY 14203 (716) 859-5600
(1) First patient 1858 - present
 
Buffalo Hahneman Hospital
(1) Active in 1913
 
Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity see Sisters of Charity Hospital*
Main Street near Delavan Ave.*
 
@ Buffalo Psychiatric Center
400 Forest Avenue (between Elmwood Ave & Grant Street) Buffalo, NY 14213 (716) 885-2261
(1) 1895 - present
(2) a) Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane
(3) Buffalo State Hospital, Insane Asylum.)
Present name - 1974
 
Buffalo Small-pox Hospital
762 East Ferry Street
(1) Active in 1880
 
Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane see Buffalo Psychiatric Center
 
Buffalo State Hospital is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. see Buffalo Psychiatric Center
(1) Active in 1880
 
Burn Treatment Center see Sheehan Memorial Hospital
 


C
Charity Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
Main and East Huron Streets, Buffalo, NY
(1) about 1891 -
 
Central Park Clinic
2787 Main, Street Buffalo, NY 14214
(1) 1929 -
(2) The Clinic and St. Francis Hospital
(4) The Clinic was organized and managed by a group of internationally know doctors.
It fell upon hard time when the Stock Market crashed in 1929, leading to the Great Depression.
In January 1943, the Sisters of St. Francis of the Third Order Regular of Williamsville purchased the clinic,
renaming it St.Francis Hospital of Buffalo, New York.
The hospital maintained its maternity service until 1945. It is now the St. Francis Geriatric & Healthcare Service Inc.
 
City Hospital see Erie County Medical Center
 
Children's Psychiatric Center Hospital
(1) Active in 1899
 
@ Children's Hospital of Buffalo
219 Bryant Street, Buffalo, NY 14222 (716) 878 - 7000
(1) September 6, 1892 - present
 
Columbus Hospital see Buffalo Columbus Hospital
 
Consumption Hospital
(1) Active in 1899
 
County Hospital see Erie County Medical Center
 
County Almshouse see Erie County Almshouse
Located on the site that is now, the University of New York at Buffalo - South Campus.
The Almshouse only, was relocated in Alden and became the Erie County Infirmary and County Home in 1926.
(1) - 1926
 
County Hospital, Almshouse, Poorhouse, and Insane Asylum see County Almshouse
Location is now the site of the University of New York at Buffalo - South Campus . Buffalo, NY
(1) 1893 - 1926


D
Deaconess Center (now a part of Buffalo General Health System)
1001 Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo, NY
(1) Deaconess Hospital
 
Deaconess Hospital
563 Riley Street Buffalo, NY
(1) Active in 1899
(2) Merged with Buffalo General Hospital, Year:? see Deaconess Center ( new name and address)


E
@ East Ferry Municipal Hospital
770 East Ferry Street
Operated by the Buffalo Health Department, later merged with Erie County Medical Center
 
ECMC Hospital see Erie County Medical Center
 
Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital see Erie County Medical Center
 
Ellicott Clinic and Hospital
693 Ellicott Street Buffalo, NY
(1) Active in 1899
 
@ ? Emergency Hospital see Sheehan Memorial Hospital
15 Pine Street at Eagle Street, Buffalo, NY 14204 (1) 1884 -
(2) a) Sheehan Memorial Hospital b) Burn Treatment Center.
John Dahm thinks that the Accident Hospital might have been Emergency Hospital.
He said" that most of the accident, gunshot,and stabbing patients were taken there".
And remembers when he was younger, "it was refereed to as the"slaughter House",
because of all the trauma patients there, then known as the "Burn Treatment Center"
 
Erie County Almshouse and Infirmary/ Hospital see Buffalo County Hospital
Main Street (Located at the site of the University of Buffalo (SUNY) - South Campus) Buffalo, NY
(1) 1898 - 1918. Burned to the ground, moved to Buffalo County Hospital
 
@ Erie County Medical Center
462 Grider Street Buffalo, NY 14215 (716) 898 - 3129
(1) 1909 - present
(2) Municipal Hospital
Buffalo City Hospital (1912)
Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital
Meyer Hospital
ECMC
City Hospital)
County Hospital
Erie County Medical Center
(4) There was a Psychiatric Center at the hospital in the 1950's and 1960's. Building "K".
The hospital also, houses the City Morgue.
In the winter of 1909 an epidemic of Scarlet Fever gripped the City of Buffalo.
With some 3,000 reported cases and no contagious disease hospital available in Buffalo,
an abandoned school building on the corner of Broadway and Spring Street was make into a temporary hospital.
The only other building, located at 770 East Ferry Street, operated by the Buffalo Health Department,
was used exclusively for the care of smallpox patients and frequently referred to as the "Pest House".
In 1910, 561 tuberculosis deaths were reported in the City of Buffalo.
This prompted the City fathers to purchase 71 acres on Grider Street know as the "West Farm" for the site of the new Buffalo City Hospital.
In 1913, due to the rapid decline of smallpox as the result of the gradual acceptance of the smallpox vaccination,
the "Pest House" on East Ferry Street was converted into a Tuberculosis Hospital to be used until the new hospital was build.
Because of the large number of patient and the lack of facilities for the care of the TB patients a temporary tent hospital,
large enough to accommodate fifty children was erected on the East Ferry Street Hospital grounds adjoining the original building.
With the onset of a typically frigid winter the children were moved inside the Ferry Street Municipal Hospital, (770 East Ferry Street)
In 1918, the Erie County Almhouse and Infirmary, located where the University of Buffalo Main Street (South) Campus is now,
burned to the ground.
This necessitated moving the patients to the new Buffalo City Hospital, and Tuberculosis Hospital
abruptly and unexpectedly became a Public General Hospital.
In 1923 Building F, was opened as a modern Acute Communicable Disease Hospital.


F
Fillmore Hospital
 
Felch Hospital
Swan Street and Michigan Avenue,, Buffalo, NY


 
G
German Hospital German Hospital see Booth Memorial
621 Genesee Street near Jefferson Avenue, Buffalo, NY
 
Grider Street Hospital see Erie County Medical Center


H
Harrington Hospital
 
Homeopathic Hospital see Millard Fillmore Hospital*
74 Cottage St
(1) Active in 1880


I
 
J
 
K
@ Kenmore Mercy Hospital
2950 Elmwood Avenue Kenmore, NY 14217
(1) 1951 - present


L
Lafayette Hospital see Lafayette General Hospital
 
Lafayette General Hospital
 
Linwood and Bryant Hospital see Brylin Hospital
Named for the location of the building.
(1)1955 - 1976
(3) Moved to 1263 Delaware Avenue in 1976


M
Memorial Hospital (Salvation Army)
736 - 738 Jefferson Avenue Buffalo, NY
(1) 1895 -
(4) German community
 
@ Mercy Hospital
565 Abbott Road Buffalo, NY 14220-2099 (716) 447 - 61000
(1) 1904 - present
(2) South Buffalo Mercy Hospital
 
@ Millard Fillmore Hospital
3 Gates Circle Buffalo, NY 14209 (716) 887 - 4600
(1) - present
(2) Homeopathic Hospital in 1924, when name was changed
 
Municipal Hospital see Erie County Medical Center
East Ferry Street, 1905
 
 


N
 
O
@ Our Lady of Victory Hospital
55 Melroy Avenue at Ridge Road, Lackawanna, NY 14218 (716( 825 - 8000
(1) 1924 - present Founded by Father baker and the Sister's of St. Joseph in 1919
(2) OLV Hospital
(4) Orphanage and Infant Home


P
"Pest House" see East Ferry Street Municipal Hospital
 
Providence Retreat
Main Street and Humboldt Parkway, Buffalo, NY
(1) 1860 - 1940
(4) Services for the mentally ill
 
Public General Hospital see Erie County Medical Center


 
Q
 
R
@ Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Elm and Carlton Streets, Buffalo, NY 14263 (716) 845 - 2300
(1) 1898 - present
(2) Roswell Memorial Institute


 
S
St. Francis Hospital see Central Park Clinic*
Pine Street near Broadway, Buffalo, New York
 
@ Saint Joseph Hospital
2605 Harlem Road, Cheektowaga, NY 14225 (716) 891 - 2400
(1) 1960 - present
(2) Saint Joseph's Intercommunity Hospital
 
Saint Mary's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital
Elmwood Avenue and Edward Street, Buffalo, NY
(1) 1854 - 1942
(4) Cared for orphans and unwed mothers
 
Saint Louise de Marillac Maternity Hospital
2157 Main Street, Buffalo NY
(1) 1942 - 1948
(3) Absorbed into Sister's Hospital
 
Saint Mary's Infant Asylum & Maternity Hospital
Elmwood and Edward Streets, Buffalo, NY
(1) 1854 - 1951
(2) Absorbed into Sister's Hospital
 
@ Sheehan Memorial Hospital
425 Michigan Avenue at Eagle Street, Buffalo, NY 14208 (716) 848 - 2000
(1) 1884 -
(2) Formerly Emergency Hospital
 
Sheridan Parkside Hospital
 
@ Sister's of Charity Hospital of Buffalo
2157 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14214 (716) 862 -1900
(1) 1848 - present
(2) Sisters Hospital
(3) Pearl Street 1848 - 1876
b) Main Street & Delavan Avenue, 1876 - 1948
c) 2157 Main Street 1948 - present
 
Buffalo Small-pox Hospital
762 East Ferry Street
 
South Buffalo Mercy Hospital see Mercy Hospital


T
Tuberculosis Hospital see East Ferry Municipal Hospital
770 East Ferry Street, operated by the Buffalo Health Department.


U
United States Marine Hospital
2183 Main Street Buffalo, NY
(1) - 1949
 
United States Military Hospital see War of 1812 Cemetery (On line listings)
Garrison Road and extending southeast Williamsville, New York
(4) War -1811 - 1815/6


V
Vets Hospital see Veterans Affairs Medical Hospital
 
Veterans Hospital see Veterans Affairs Medical Hospital
 
Veterans Affairs Medical Hospital see Veteran Administration Western New York Health System (VAWNYHS)
 
@ Veteran Administration Western New York Health System (VAWNYHS)
3495 Bailey Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14215 (716) 862 - 3611
(1) 1950 - present
b) Veterans Administration Medical Center
c) Vets Hospital
d) Veterans Affairs Medial Hospital
 
Veterans Administration Hospital see Veteran Administration Western New York Health System (VAWNYHS)

* - 1880 Buffalo City Directory

Erie County (outside of Buffalo)
@ Bertrand Chaffee Memorial Hospital
224 East Main Street, Springville, New York 14141 (716) 592 - 2871
(1) 1946 -
 
Chaffee Memorial Hospital see Bertrand Chaffee Memorial Hospital
 
Gowanda Psychiatric Center see Gowanda State Hospital
 
Gowanda State Hospital
Wheater Road
(1) Homeopathic Hospital in 1898
(2) Gowanda Psychiatric Center
(4) Hospital for the mentally disturbed.
Old Gowanda Psychiatric Center Cemetery - ~ Buffalo News article by Elmer Ploetz, 22 June 2002
 
Homeopathic Hospital see Gowanda State Hospital
 
J.N.Adams Hospital for Women
East Aurora, NY
 
Lake Shore Hospital
Route 5 and 20, Irving, N.Y. 14081
 
@ Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital
1540 Maple Road, Williamsville, NY 14221 (716) 568 - 3600
(1) 1974 - present
 
@ Tri-County Memorial Hospital
100 Memorial Drive, Gowanda, NY 14070 (716) 532 - 3371
(1) 1937 - Present
 
@ Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center
1010 East and West Roads, West Seneca, New York 14224


Allegany County

@ Cuba Memorial Hospital
140 West Main Street, Cuba, NY 14727 (716) 968 - 2000
 
@ Jones Memorial Hospital
191 North Main Street, Wellsville, NY 14895 (716) 593 - 1100

Cattaraugus County

@ Olean General Hospital
515 Main Street, Olean, NY 14760 (716) 372 - 2600
222 West State Street, Olean, NY 14760 (716) 371 - 2600
(1) ca. 1899
 
Tri - County Memorial Hospital
100 Memorial Drive, Gowanda, NY 14070

Chautauqua County

@ Brooks Memorial Hospital
529 Central Avenue, Dunkirk, NY 14048 (716) 366 - 1111
(1) 1899
 

Lakeshore Health Care Center
845 Route 5 & 20, Irving, NY 14081 (716) 934 - 2654

 
@ Westfield Memorial Hospital
189 East Main Street, Westfield, NY 14787 (716) 326 - 4921
(1) 1942
 
Womens Christian Assoc. Hospital of New York
207 Foote Avenue, Jamestown, NY 14701 (716)487 - 0141
(1) 1885

Genesee County

@ Genesee Memorial Hospital Center see United Memorial Medical Center
127 North Street, Batavia, NY 14020 (716) 343 - 6030
 
@ St. Jerome Hospital see United Memorial Medical Center
16 Bank Street, Batavia, NY 14020
(716) 343 - 3131
 
@ United Memorial Medical Center
Genesee Memorial Hospital Center and St. Jerome Hospital merged.
 
@ Veteran Adminatration Western New York Health System (VAWNYHS)
(1) 1933
Niagara County
@ DeGraff Memorial Hospital
445 Tremont Avenue, North Tonawanda, NY 14120 (716) 694 - 4500
(1) 1914 - present
 
@ Inter-Community Memorial Hospital
2600 William Street, Newfane, NY 14108 (716) 778 - 5111
 
@ Inter-Community Memorial Hospital
6507 Wheeler Rd., Lockport, NY (716) 438-3585
 
@ Lockport Memorial Hospital
521 East Avenue, Lockport, NY 14094 (716) 434 - 9111
 
@ Mount St. Mary's Hospital
5300 Military Road, Lewistown, NY 14092 (716) 297 - 4800
 
Mt. View Hospital
5465 Upper Mountain Road, Lockport, NY (716) 438 - 3000
 
@ Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
621 Tenth Street. Niagara Falls, NY 14302 (716) 278 - 4000

Orleans County

@ Medina Memorial Hospital Hospital
200 Ohio Street, Medina, NY 14103 (716) 798 - 8135

Wyoming County

@ Wyoming County Hospital
400 North Main Street, Warsaw, NY 14569 (716) 786 - 2233
 
 
 

Western New York Hospitals

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