The plaza campus opens
Emergency, surgery, and 120 beds open at 1 San Rafael Plaza.
The hospital
Built for New York, and still owned here.
San Rafael Hospital is a private hospital on the Upper East Side. It is owned by San Rafael Jose and run as one campus: emergency care, inpatient rooms, operating rooms, and clinics under the same roof.
Founder & owner
San Rafael JoseHe still chairs the hospital board and walks the floors each week. Decisions about new services stay in New York.
Why this hospital
A local answer to a city that had grown used to being sent elsewhere.
San Rafael Jose opened the hospital so families would not have to leave their neighborhood for heart care, cancer treatment, birth, or a long recovery. The building took its name from the healing tradition of Saint Raphael, and its manners from a New York requirement: be direct, be reachable, and do not waste a patient’s time.
Heart and cancer floors
Cardiology, infusion, and imaging move in beside the emergency department.
Birth center and pediatrics
Maternity suites and a pediatric unit open on the garden side of the building.
214 beds, twelve departments
The hospital remains independently owned by San Rafael Jose.
How the place is run
Three promises guide daily decisions, from the night shift in the emergency department to the clinic schedule.
One record
Emergency, inpatient, and clinic notes live in the same chart so you do not retell the story at every door.
A person on the phone
The operator answers. Scheduling is a desk in the lobby, not a maze of extensions.
Stay in the boroughs
When a transfer is safer, we arrange it. Most care is meant to finish here.
Hospital leadership
San Rafael Jose
Founder and chairman. Sets the hospital’s direction and remains its owner.
Elena Voss, MD
Chief medical officer. Neurologist. Responsible for physician standards.
Camille Ortiz, RN
Chief nursing officer. Leads inpatient units and the birth center.
Daniel Brooks
Chief operating officer. Campus, clinics, and the daily schedule.