Gouverneur Health

Gouverneur Health has roots that go back to eighteen eighty-five, when it began as a small emergency station in a former market building in the Financial District. It was designed specifically to treat accident cases from the busy waterfront, leaving overnight care to the larger hospitals elsewhere. The institution quickly gained a reputation for medical firsts, including the establishment of the first municipal tuberculosis clinic in the United States. Its medical team also broke barriers when they hired Doctor Emily Dunning Barringer, the first female ambulance surgeon in the country. Her presence on the streets was a radical departure from the medical norms of the nineteenth century.