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3 unusual facts about Presbyterian Hospital


Jack Hatchell Transit Center

It is owned and operated by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), whose buses mostly serve Plano-area hospitals such as the Presbyterian Hospital and the Medical Center of Plano.

NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital

NYP-EMS operates one of the largest American Heart Association Emergency Cardiac Care training centers in New York.

The Presbyterian Hospital was founded in 1868 by James Lenox, a New York philanthropist and was associated with Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.


Antonio Gotto

As administrator, he has presided over an enormous growth at Cornell, an affiliation with Houston's Methodist Hospital when it separated from Baylor, and a deepening of Cornell's longime affiliation with New York Hospital following its merger with Columbia Presbyterian to form the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Houston Methodist Hospital

Primarily affiliated with Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the hospital directs millions of dollars into research and advances in patient care.

Joseph Ransohoff

He went on to teach at Columbia University and practice surgery at the New York Neurologic Institute at Presbyterian Hospital.


see also

Anna Maxwell

Maxwell was also the first director of the Presbyterian Hospital's nursing school, founded in 1892, which later became the Columbia University School of Nursing.

Harold E. Varmus

That same year, he entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and later worked at a missionary hospital in Bareilly, India and the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.

Stephen Emerson

Stephen G. Emerson (born 1953), American stem cell biologist and clinical hematologist/oncologist; president of Haverford College from 2007 to 2011; as of 2012, director of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton (formerly Denton Community Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital of Denton) serves the communities of North Texas and southern Oklahoma.