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The LeRoy Sanitarium, later called the LeRoy Hospital, was a medical facility in New York, New York. It was founded in 1928 by Alice Fuller LeRoy and closed in 1980.[1][2]
Notable patients
[edit]- actress Marguerite Clark entered as a patient and then died there in 1940.
- actress Laura Hope Crews died there in 1942 following treatment for liver problems.
- actor Peter Fonda was born there in 1940.
- actress Doris Keane died there of cancer in 1945.
- journalist Dorothy Kilgallen had her final birth there in 1953. The baby was named Kerry Kollmar after the father, Richard Kollmar.
- jazz musician Dick McDonough died there in 1938.
- businesswoman Christina Onassis was born there in 1950.
- actress Dixie Carter's daughters, Ginna and Mary Dixie, were born there.
- jazz musician George Barnes recovered from a heart attack there in 1974.
References
[edit]- ^ Pollak, Michael (November 28, 2004). "From Hospital to Home". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-11-30.
- ^ "LeRoy Sanitorium". NY Daily News. March 6, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
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