Message From Our President
I have been the president of The Bellevue Association since 2018 when I succeeded our distinguished past president Lola Finkelstein, a passionate advocate both for Bellevue Hospital and accessible health care for all residents of New York City.
My love of Bellevue Hospital comes honestly to me. My father was Dr. Saul J. Farber, who held many positions of leadership at Bellevue Hospital and NYU Medical Center. Throughout his sixty-year career, the one constant was his dedication to Bellevue Hospital and his belief that its mission of treating all New Yorkers including the immigrant, the poor, and the needy, was the highest calling of the medical profession and imperative for a humane society.
For anyone who lives, works, visits, or does business in New York City, Bellevue is the unsung, and unseen, guardian of the public's health. Whether you are the President of the United States, a policeman or fire fighter, a construction worker or a tourist, if you are injured in New York City, the first choice of the first responders will be Bellevue Hospital.
Bellevue has faced every epidemic in New York: yellow fever and typhus in the 1800's, tuberculosis and AIDS in the 1900's. It was Bellevue Hospital that was at the forefront of the response to the Covid pandemic which began in 2020 and changed all of our lives. Bellevue has always treated victims of these devastating diseases, often at great risk to its own staff. By protecting the health of the most vulnerable populations, Bellevue protects the health of all citizens.
The Bellevue Association is a public-private 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care at Bellevue Hospital Center. The Bellevue Association supports a wide variety of programs at Bellevue which are listed on this website.
I hope you will join me in furthering the mission of Bellevue Hospital Center and The Bellevue Association.
Beth Farber