Prospect Hospital

Prospect, which owned "15 brownstone buildings that are used for drug and alcohol rehabilitation and other social programs," was owned by a locally-born man, Dr. Jacob B. Freedman, who built it in 1963.^[1][2] The hospital was the linchpin of the now-landmarked South Bronx neighborhood, Longwood.^[3]

An attempt was made by a group of doctors to reopen,^[4] but it was not successful.^[5] The 175-bed seven-story facility was purchased to become "family inns" rather than being termed "homeless shelters" or "welfare hotels." The latter were described as "rooms that are often cramped and squalid."^[6] The building, located at 730 Kelly Street, was renamed Prospect Family Inn; one part of it is Prospect Family Nursery, a two-room "around the clock" setup "where parents in crisis can leave their children for up to 72 hours."^[7][8]

At another location, there was a predecessor medical facility "that traced its beginnings to 1919."^[9]