The Decline of St. Vincent’s Hospital By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
For more than 150 years, St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan has been a beacon in Greenwich Village, serving poets, writers, artists, winos, the poor and the working-class, and gay people. it has treated victims of calamities: the cholera epidemic of 1849, the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, the 9/11 attack and, just last year, the Hudson River landing of US Airways Flight 1549. The poet Edna St. Vincent Millay got her middle name from the hospital, where her uncle’s life was saved in 1892 after be was accidentally locked in the hold of a ship for several days without food or water.
But today the hospital is struggling, and last week, in what could mean the death knell of the last Roman Catholic general hospital in New York City, a chain of hospitals proposed to take over St. Vincent’s, shut down its inpatient beds and most of its emergency room services, and convert it into an outpatient center tied to hospitals uptown and on the East Side.
Gov. David A. Paterson’s office said on Tuesday the state was extending a $6 million emergency loan to help St. Vincent’s meet its payroll, an indication of how dire its finances had become.
How St. Vincent’s went from a cherished neighborhood institution to one threatened with extinction is a chronicle of increasingly troubled management whose problems were made worse by the economics of the health care industry, changes in the fabric of a historic neighborhood and the low profit potential in religious work
It was once part of the Roman Catholic Church’s social and political network in New York City, a cradle-to-grave embrace of parishioners who were born in Catholic hospitals, educated in parochial schools, married in the church and given last rites by a priest.
Last week, a day after the announcement of the proposed takeover, members of the Sisters of Charity, the Catholic order of nuns that founded the hospital in 1849, gathered for a noon Mass at St. Vincent’s second-floor chapel and vowed to fight. “We are not going away,” said Sister Jane lannucelli, vice chairwoman of the hospital board, standing in the light of stained glass windows.
“One of the things that’s so crucial to the Sisters of Charity is serving the poor,” she said.
It was that very calling, some industry executives suggested, that may have helped make the hospital obsolete.
“Helping the poor is indeed the mission and the cause cilèbre,” said Kenneth E. Raske, president of the
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Read the attached newspaper report about St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Use one of the following life stage models as a theoretical basis for your analysis and describe in writing the current stage of development of St. Vincent’s Hospital:
(1) McKinsey model available at https://www.mindtools.comipages/article/newSTR_91.htrn or (2) the Simon model available in Simon, J. (2004). The five life stages of nonprofit organizations. St. Paul, MN: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation.
Describe in writing the current stage in which St.Vincent’s Hospital is located and provide examples of St. Vincent’s current functioning to justify the selection of the life stage. Discuss how capacity issues affected the organizations’ ability to service their clients.
Your paper should be at least two full pages in length, double-spaced, using 12-point type with one-inch margins on each side.
Use APA 6th ed. style for any text citations and for a separate reference page.
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