Neighborliness between two downtown hospitals was manifested yesterday when Saul Singer, president of Beth Israel Hospital, offered Philip Gossler, president of St. Mark’s Hospital, the facilities of his institution to provide accommodation and care for the patients of St. Mark’s Hospital, which is now being compelled to close its doors. Mr. Singer, in his offer of cooperation, volunteered help in the transfer of the patients, and to permit the physicians of St. Mark’s Hospital to continue treatment of these patients, waiving all rules of Beth Israel Hospital in the emergency.
The new Beth Israel Hospital, one of the ninety-one affiliated institutions of the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, has since its opening been successfully providing medical care for the middle class.
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