On July 15, 1935, Meadowbrook Hospital opened in the hamlet of East Meadow on Long Island, in New York.
Three days later, “in the modern air conditioned, sound-proof delivery room,” the first baby was born at Meadowbrook.
It was a boy — the son of Gerard and Lena Verhayden of Lynbrook.
His name? Louis Meadows Brook Verhayden.
[Here’s another baby named for the hospital she was born in.]
Sources:
- “Baby Named for Hospital.” New York Times 19 Jul. 1935, Books sec.: 19.
- NuHealth – Our History
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