The Western Dispensary for Women and Children, now defunct, was a Manhattan hospital incorporated in March 1869, located at 218 Ninth Avenue. Unlike the government-funded Northwestern Dispensary, this hospital had trouble meeting their financial obligations.regarding an attending physician, Anna Lukens: at some portions of the time paid the rent for this dispensary out of her own pocket in order to keep up the work. Abraham Jacobi, a co-founder of the hospital, is regarded as the Father of American Pediatrics.
Controversy A portion of a large sum left by "an eccentric old maid" was directed by her will to Western Dispensary for Women and Children and several other institutions, Some of her nieces and nephews contested the will. When Surrogate Court held hearings, there was "a large attendance" of "the various charitable institutions which are beneficiaries."
Notable people Mary A. Brinkman, homeopathic physician appointed to the hospital Anna Lukens, attending physician of the hospital Samuel Baldwin Ward, surgeon at the hospital
See also List of hospitals in Manhattan
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