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Founded in 1817 by the Sisters of Charity of New York to care for the poor and disadvantaged, Saint Vincent’s Hospital was established in response to a cholera outbreak and later cared for victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 1911, treated steerage survivors of the RMS Titanic shipwreck on April 15, 1912, opened the first and largest AIDS ward on the East Coast in 1984 during the international AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, and served as the initial triage center after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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