New York Hospital, Bloomingdale Hospital School of Nursing Records

Bloomingdale Hospital School of Nursing was located in White Plains, New York, at the Bloomingdale Hospital (the psychiatric hospital division of the Society of the New York Hospital).

The School of Nursing was preceded by the establishment in 1895, on the experimental basis, of a training school for the instruction of male and female attendants at Bloomingdale. In 1898, the Board of Governors of the Society of the New York Hospital established the training school on a permanent basis with a course of study extending over a period of two years.

In 1913, after program development and extension of the course to three years, the School of Nursing was recognized and registered under the New York State Department of Education. The School established affiliations with the School of Nursing of the New York Hospital and Manhattan Maternity for training of students at those facilities for fifteen months of the three years required for graduation. The course was shaped with special reference to the training of women. Later, a similar course was organized for men through an affiliation with the School of Nursing at Bellevue Hospital. In addition to the undergraduate programs, the Bloomingdale School of Nursing also provided a post-graduate course of several months of instruction for graduates of registered general hospital schools.

From 1923 to 1934, the first year students of the Bloomingdale Hospital School of Nursing joined with students from other area hospitals for basic nursing training at the Westchester Central School of Nursing (also located at Bloomingdale Hospital). The Westchester Central School of Nursing was organized and jointly funded by the Superintendents of Bloomingdale Hospital, Mt. Vernon Hospital, New Rochelle Hospital, White Plains Hospital, and United Hospital-Port Chester.

In 1936, the Bloomingdale Hospital School of Nursing discontinued its undergraduate program. Affiliated students from many area nursing schools, however, continued to receive short-term instruction in psychiatric nursing at Bloomingdale Hospital.