On September 11, 2001 – with less than 10 minutes to prepare - NYU Downtown Hospital organized the most extensive disaster response ever undertaken by a U.S. hospital. Amid the avalanche of bleak news from ground zero at the World Trade Center, the Hospital became known to the world as “the little hospital that could,” emerging as an island of hope in a sea of chaos. Just three blocks from the disaster site, medical staff and volunteers worked with emergency generators under war-like conditions, treating more than 500 victims, including 150 police, firefighters and emergency personnel.
WHO: New York City Health Commissioner, Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH.
NYS Board of Health Commisioner, Antonio C. Novello, MD
NYU Downtown Hospital President and CEO Leonard A. Aubrey
Jessica Ashenberg on behalf of NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver
*INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY: NYU Downtown Hospital’s 9/11 trauma leaders
Howard L. Beaton, MD, Chief of Surgery
David Goldschmidt, MD, Medical Director, Emergency Department.
WHAT: Tribute to the Hospital’s staff
WHEN: Monday, March 11, 3:00 PM
WHERE: NYU Downtown Hospital (formerly known as Beekman Hospital)
170 William Street (Beekman-Spruce), The Cafeteria
Located two blocks east of City Hall, south of Pace University
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