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52-528: Elizabeth Arden (December 31, 1881 – October 18, 1966), also known as Elizabeth N. Graham , was a Canadian-American businesswoman who founded what is now Elizabeth Arden, Inc. , and built a cosmetics empire in the United States. By 1929, she owned 150 salons in Europe and the United States. Her 1,000 products were being sold in 22 countries. She was the sole owner, and at the peak of her career, she

104-536: A trade name , she used "Elizabeth" to save money on her salon signs. She chose the last name, "Arden", from a nearby farm. Thus the trade name "Elizabeth Arden" was formed. From there, Arden founded the Red Door salon in New York in 1910, which has remained synonymous with her name ever since (see under Elizabeth Arden, Inc. ). In 1912, Arden traveled to France to learn beauty and facial massage techniques used in

156-487: A "treatment girl". Arden was allegedly a dedicated suffragette , and there is a story that she marched for women's rights in 1912. It is a popular fiction that she supplied the marchers with red lipstick as a sign of solidarity, but there is little contemporary evidence supporting this. Women taking part in the 1912 march were advised to wear the same $ 7 straw hat, wear white, and to bring their children, to demonstrate their responsibility and simplicity. The use of cosmetics

208-548: A $ 4.5 million 12-story building on Park Avenue at 77th Street, with a glass and aluminum facade, and a capacity of 180 patient beds. The new building, named the Wollman Pavilion, also housed a mental health unit, and an entire floor was allocated for research on speech and hearing disorders, epilepsy and hemophilia. In 1964, the Charles R. Lachman Community Health Center was added on the south side of 77th Street, between

260-459: A bed in the main part of the hospital. This facility also does labs if necessary, as well as CTs and X-rays. If it is unable to perform a given test, such as an MRI, an outside facility can do it, just as with any other emergency department. Lenox Hill HealthPlex has private rooms so that patients can have their privacy. Patients are treated regardless of whether they are insured. In 2015, Lenox Hill HealthPlex became Lenox Health Greenwich Village. It

312-466: A jury awarded $ 49 million in an obstetrics case against the hospital, which was one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in New York City at that time. The hospital's building underwent masonry and roof restorations conducted by Merrit Engineering Consultants, P.C. from 2007 to 2009. Façade restoration, waterproofing, and structural steel repairs were also conducted. On May 19, 2010,

364-452: A ladylike image; previously makeup had often been associated with lower classes and prostitutes. She targeted middle-aged and plain women for whom beauty products promised a youthful, beautiful image. In her salons and through her marketing campaigns, she stressed teaching women how to apply makeup and pioneered such concepts as scientific formulation of cosmetics, beauty makeovers, and coordinating colors of eye, lip and facial makeup. In 1962,

416-463: A leading innovator in medical care, developing and implementing many standards and practices that would later become indispensable components of modern medicine. In 1897, the hospital installed one of the first X-ray machines in America. Ten years later, the hospital established the first physical therapy department in the country. In response to what was becoming a growing public health threat, it

468-508: A loss of over $ 200,000 the previous year, 1938. The hospital's operating loss grew to $ 284,692 in 1945, which was then a record high. Due to a lack of funds, an anticipated additional new building was delayed for over 20 years, when the Second Century Development Program, designed to raise $ 10 million, was led by the hospital's president, James Wickersham. On the hospital's 100th anniversary, in 1957, it opened

520-424: A wide range of inpatient and outpatient medical, surgical, cardiovascular, orthopedic and obstetric services. The hospital has both primary care and specialty outpatient clinics, an ambulance service and an emergency department. Special programs and services include neurosurgery , sports medicine , interventional cardiology and a cardiovascular surgery program that are among the busiest and most highly regarded in

572-463: Is seen as creating stronger affinity among Canadians living in the US than might otherwise exist. According to US Census estimates, the number of Canadian residents was around 640,000 in 2000. Some sources have cited the number to possibly be over 1,000,000. This number, though, is far smaller than the number of Americans who can trace part or the whole of their ancestry to Canada. The percentage of these in

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624-460: Is the official health and wellness partner of Chelsea Piers and Entertainment Complex. In 2020, Netflix released a show Lenox Hill (TV series) that was filmed at the hospital. It followed four doctors at the Manhattan hospital. The show was filmed from 2018-2019. The series was a documentary, and the doctors in the show are real practicing doctors. In 2021, Lenox Hill Hospital was ranked

676-482: The CBC period drama Murdoch Mysteries (October 1, 2018), portrayed by Kathryn Alexandre . A contract dispute that Arden faced with a former employee led the 1953 court case Crabtree v. Elizabeth Arden Sales Corp , which is now considered a seminal case on the application of the statute of frauds . Most law schools include this case in their required contract law course. (It is curious that "Graham's" love interest in

728-480: The German Polyklinik , founded in 1883 – which later changed its name to Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital – for $ 82,000, and a larger dispensary was erected on the northeast corner of 76th Street and Park Avenue, with Ottendorfer's son and daughter providing the balance of the $ 250,000 cost, in their mother's memory. The new dispensary building was opened March 16, 1907. In 1908 a new isolation pavilion

780-671: The Murdoch Mysteries was named "Crabtree".) Canadian Americans The term Canadian can mean a nationality or an ethnicity . Canadians are considered North Americans due their residing in the North American continent. English-speaking Canadian immigrants easily integrate and assimilate into northern and western U.S. states as a result of many cultural similarities, and in the similar accent in spoken English. French-speaking Canadians , because of language and culture, tend to take longer to assimilate. However, by

832-606: The Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City , servicing the tri-state area. LHH is one of the region's many university-level academic medical centers. The hospital is owned by Northwell Health , the largest private employer in the state of New York . LHH serves as a clinical campus for the Zucker School of Medicine , which is owned by the health system in a partnership with Hofstra University . It

884-503: The #4 hospital in New York City as well as in New York State . It was ranked among the nation's top 50 hospitals in neurology & neurosurgery (#23), orthopedics (#25) and ear, nose & throat (#27), cardiology & heart surgery (#28), gynecology (#31), diabetes & endocrinology (#38) and geriatrics (#39), according to U.S. News & World Report ' s annual survey of America's Best Hospitals. The hospital became

936-666: The 1870s. Her father, William Graham, was Scottish ; her mother, Susan (née Tadd), was Cornish and had arranged for a wealthy aunt in Cornwall to pay for her children's education. After dropping out of nursing school in Toronto, she joined her elder brother in Manhattan , working briefly as a bookkeeper for the E. R. Squibb pharmaceutical company. While there, Arden spent hours in their lab, learning about skincare . She then worked for Eleanor Adair, an early beauty culturist, as

988-459: The 3rd generation, they are often fully culturally assimilated, and the Canadian identity is more or less folklore. This took place, even though half of the population of the province of Quebec emigrated to the US between 1840 and 1930. Many New England cities formed ' Little Canadas ', but many of these have gradually disappeared. This cultural "invisibility" within the larger US population

1040-412: The 76th Street side in 1936, at a cost of $ 150,000. By 1939, the hospital had annually treated 12,115 patients with bed care, and another 23,099 visited the dispensary for treatment. Adding accident room patients, the hospital treated over 53,000 people in 1939. Because some care was given for free or part-pay, the hospital often ran an operating deficit, just as it did in 1939, when it lost $ 163,029, down

1092-642: The Australian dramatist John Misto chronicles the life and career of Helena Rubinstein and her rivalry with Elizabeth Arden and Revlon . Lip Service premiered April 26, 2017, at the Park Theatre in London, under the title Madame Rubinstein , before opening at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre in August of the same year. Elizabeth Arden, as student nurse Florence Nightingale Graham, appeared in an episode of

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1144-635: The City of New York was incorporated by the New York State Legislature April 13, 1861, and its first board of directors was organized February 15, 1862. A plot of ground situated on Park Avenue and 77th Street was leased to them by the city for 50 years at a nominal rent, and they purchased six additional lots on 76th Street. The plan was to erect two pavilions, extending along 77th Street, from Park to Lexington Avenues, with an administration building between them. The corner-stone of

1196-625: The French government awarded Arden the Légion d'Honneur , in recognition of her contribution to the cosmetics industry. Arden was involved in the sport of Thoroughbred racing for many years. Her stable, Maine Chance Farm (named for her spa), owned – among other stakes winners – the 1947 Kentucky Derby winner Jet Pilot . Arden was married to Thomas Jenkins Lewis and to Prince Michael Evlanov . Both times, she divorced them. Arden died at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on October 18, 1966. She

1248-517: The New England states is almost 25% of the total population. In some regions of the United States, especially New England or the Midwest , a Canadian American often means one whose ancestors came from Canada. The Connecticut State Senate unanimously passed a bill in 2009, making June 24 Canadian American Day in the state of Connecticut . The bill allows state officials to hold ceremonies at

1300-529: The Ottendorfer family, opened in 1901. The hospital moved to the 77th Street location entirely in 1905, about the same time that Manhattan's German community was increasingly abandoning Little Germany for the Yorkville neighborhood, within walking distance of the new hospital. New York City deeded to the hospital the square block it occupied for $ 5,000 in 1907. The dispensary building was sold in 1906 to

1352-635: The Parisian beauty salons . She returned with a collection of rouges and tinted powders that she had created. She began expanding her international operations in 1915 and started opening salons across the world. In 1934, she opened the Maine Chance residential spa in Rome, Maine , the first destination beauty spa in the United States. It operated until 1970. Arden was largely responsible for establishing makeup as proper and appropriate, even necessary, for

1404-626: The United States focus on Canadian-American studies, including the Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine , the Center for Canadian American studies at Western Washington University , and the University at Buffalo Canadian-American Studies Committee. Lenox Hill Hospital Lenox Hill Hospital ( LHH ) is a nationally ranked 450-bed non-profit , tertiary , research and academic medical center located on

1456-601: The Wollman Pavilion and the William Black Hall of Nursing, which opened in 1962 (the School of Nursing closed in 1973). The hospital opened its largest building, at 12 stories, in 1976, located at Park Avenue and 76th Street, replacing the Ottendorfer Dispensary, at a cost of $ 20 million. The modern brick masonry structure, with a fortresslike facade, stood in stark contrast in architectural style of

1508-568: The capitol and other places each year to honor Americans of Canadian ancestry. As a consequence of Article 3 of the Jay Treaty of 1794, official First Nations status, or in the United States, Native American status, also confers the right to live and work on either side of the border. Unlike the U.S., Canada has not codified the Jay Treaty. Canadian courts readily reject the Jay Treaty free passage of goods right. Some institutions in

1560-470: The hospital announced that an agreement had been finalized for it to join the Northwell Health . In 2014, the old St. Vincent Hospital building that had suddenly closed back in 2010, became Lenox Hill HealthPlex, Manhattan's first freestanding emergency department . This facility is located at 30 7th Avenue between W. 12th and W. 13th Street, walking distance from the 14th Street train station on

1612-614: The hospital assembled a disaster team to care for casualties of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in 2001. Emergency crews were sent to Ground Zero and supply runs to the area were conducted to aid the rescue workers. The hospital set up a free walk-in Crisis Counseling Center, staffed by the hospital's psychiatrists and therapists, and the blood donor center was expanded to accommodate

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1664-505: The hospital spoke German . The hospital rejected a proposed merger with Columbia University in February 1919. In April 1931, the hospital completed a new $ 2.5 million 11-story building, with a facade made of light brick with limestone trim, on the 76th Street side of the hospital, replacing two apartment houses and several workshops. In December 1931, Winston Churchill was hospitalized there for treatment of injuries suffered when he

1716-552: The hospital was the first in the U.S. to perform endoscopic radial artery harvesting. In 2000, Lenox Hill Hospital became the sponsor of Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital . In 2003, the first drug-coated stent approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was implanted at the hospital. It is also one of the first hospitals in the nation to acquire a state-of-the-art robotic cardiac system, which allows surgeons to perform minimally invasive heart-bypass surgery . Continuing its tradition of care during times of crisis,

1768-557: The hospital, and in 1955 the hospital became one of the first in New York City to open a cardiac catheterization laboratory. Ten years later, the hospital opened the first cardiac-care unit in the metropolitan New York area. In 1978, the first coronary angioplasties in the country were performed at Lenox Hill Hospital and at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco . In 1994, Lenox Hill Hospital surgeons pioneered minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery and in 2000,

1820-533: The hospital, including: Many medical pioneers were early members of the hospital's attending staff. Among them were: Lenox Hill Hospital consistently ranks with the nation’s best on the U.S. News & World Report: Best Hospital rankings . As of the 2021-22 rankings, Lenox is ranked as #23 in neurology & neurosurgery, #25 in orthopedics, #27 in ear, nose & throat, #28 in cardiology and heart surgery, #31 in gynecology, #38 in diabetes and endocrinology, and #39 in geriatrics. Lenox Hill Hospital today provides

1872-696: The region; a New York State-designated AIDS center program; a high-risk neonatal care service ; an obstetric service; an ambulatory surgery program; a renal dialysis service; and a community health education and outreach program. Other licensed services include cystoscopy , diagnostic radiology services including CT and MRI scanning, nuclear medicine , and therapeutic radiology. Outpatient services include primary care medicine, pediatrics , prenatal care and family planning, physical therapy , audiology , speech/language pathology , and social work. The hospital also provides inpatient and outpatient adult mental health services. Its ambulance service primary territory

1924-466: The rest of hospital's buildings. The new building added 180 patient beds, for an overall capacity of 690 beds. The hospital sent a medical unit to England in 1943 to maintain station hospitals for military personnel. Throughout the remainder of World War II , hospital staff members served in all theaters of war, including with combat forces in the European theater of operations after D-Day . In 1998,

1976-450: The thousands of people who came to the hospital to give blood. In 2007, the hospital celebrated its 150th anniversary, and expanded its dedication to the New York City community by opening a new, state-of-the-art emergency department, the Anne and Isidore Falk Center for Emergency Care at Lenox Hill Hospital. Many important milestones in the advancement of medical knowledge have been made at

2028-506: The west and east by Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue . The New York City Subway 's 77th Street station is on the same block. In 1857, a group of community leaders recognized the need for medical services among the immigrant community and came together to found the German Dispensary. Physicians Ernest Krackowizer and Abraham Jacobi were among the founders. Its purpose, according to the constitution adopted January 19, 1857,

2080-427: The west side. This emergency department, just like any other that is a part of a hospital, sees patients whether they come as a walk-in or via an ambulance. If this facility is unable to treat someone, and/or he needs long-term care, he is then transferred to an actual hospital via an ambulance. Since Lenox Hill HealthPlex is a part of Lenox Hill Hospital, patients at times are admitted directly and are brought straight to

2132-534: The western pavilion was laid September 3, 1866. Completion was delayed by a shortage of funds, but finally the hospital opened September 13, 1869. On March 26, 1866, the state legislature made the German Dispensary a branch of the German Hospital. A pavilion for skin diseases opened in 1875; an isolation pavilion in 1880; a women's department in 1882; and in 1884, a new dispensary at 137 Second Avenue , between 8th and 9th Streets. The three-story building

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2184-580: Was "to give medical advice in their own tongue to inhabitants of New York City who speak the German language, a great many indigent sick persons, ignorant of the English tongue." On May 28, 1857, the dispensary opened at 132 New Canal Street , on the north side between Chrystie and Forsyth Streets. The location had been 210 Walker Street before the street's renaming. In 1862, the dispensary moved to larger quarters at 8 East 3rd Street . The German Hospital of

2236-526: Was a gift of Anna Ottendorfer and Oswald Ottendorfer , who ran the German-language newspaper New Yorker Staats-Zeitung . By 1887, the German Hospital and Dispensary was treating 28,000 patients annually, mostly from the local Little Germany neighborhood around First and Second Avenues below 14th Street . Another wing opened in 1888. A nurses' home opened in 1893, donated by the Ottendorfer family. A five-story training school for nurses

2288-450: Was added in February 1894 at 77th Street and Lexington Avenue, with four young German-American women forming the first class. Until then, nursing attendants and charge nurses had been brought over from Germany. The New York Times noted in an 1899 editorial, "to be a graduate nurse of the German Hospital is a distinction and recommendation for good nursing." A hospital annex, at the corner of 77th Street and Lexington Avenue, also donated by

2340-594: Was founded in 1857 as the German Dispensary . It currently consists of ten buildings and has occupied the present site in Manhattan since 1869, when it was known as the German Hospital . In 2007, the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital was incorporated into Lenox Hill Hospital. The hospital is located on a city block bounded on the north and south by East 77th and 76th Streets , and on

2392-572: Was inaugurated, as well as a pavilion for tuberculosis patients. In 1910 a separate building for intrathoracic surgery was begun on Lexington Avenue, adjoining the German Hospital Training School for Nurses, and Ottendorfer's daughter donated $ 100,000 for the creation of the Abraham Jacobi Division for Children. The capacity of the German Hospital in 1915 was 310 beds. In July 1918, the German Hospital

2444-785: Was interred in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York , under the name Elizabeth N. Graham. The musical War Paint dramatizes her rivalry with competitor Helena Rubinstein . After a successful tryout at Chicago's Goodman Theater , the show opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre on April 6, 2017, earning four Tony Award nominations, including Best Actress in a Leading Role for Christine Ebersole 's portrayal of Arden, as well as for Patti Lupone for her role as Rubinstein. and closed on November 5, 2017. The comedy Lip Service by

2496-419: Was never mentioned, which is hardly surprising: bold red lipstick still had tawdry associations with the theatre. Even as late as 1920 Arden herself was dismissive of "powder and rouge ... so obvious in their artifice that their use was considered in questionable taste". In 1909, Arden formed a partnership with Elizabeth Hubbard, another culturist. The business relationship dissolved in 1910. Wanting to have

2548-620: Was one of the wealthiest women in the world. She was born Florence Nightingale Graham on her family's farm in Woodbridge , Ontario , Canada. She played with her birth date, but although her birth record seems to have disappeared, census records and a statutory declaration by her older brother, William Pearce Graham (1877–1959), both put the date at 1881. The property is currently home to the Vaughan Grove community. Her parents had immigrated to Canada from Cornwall , United Kingdom, in

2600-547: Was renamed Lenox Hill Hospital , tying it to the Lenox Hill section of the Upper East Side , in an effort to distance the institution from America's enemy in World War I . A movement in 1925 to restore the hospital to its former name, to appeal to potential donors of German descent, was eventually rejected by the board of trustees. It was said at the time that about 95 percent of the doctors, nurses and other employees of

2652-401: Was run-over by a car after failing to look left when crossing Fifth Avenue . The pioneering children's division, founded by Dr. Abraham Jacobi, was housed on the 11th floor, with other patient rooms on the fourth through ninth floors, and operating rooms on the 10th floor. Another two-story building, containing a ward service, lecture hall and swimming pool, was added next to the main building on

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2704-482: Was the first general hospital in the U.S. to open a tuberculosis division. In 1973, the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma became the first hospital-based center in the nation for the study of sports medicine . Early on, the hospital established itself as one of the nation's leading hospitals for cardiac care . In 1938, the first angiocardiograph in the country was performed at

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