title: Alfred A. Richman
text: # Alfred A. Richman
  
  Alfred A. Richman (c. 1892 - December 8, 1984) was "an orthopedic surgeon and an honorary trustee of Beth Israel Hospital" who "founded Manhattan General Hospital in 1928 and was its executive director."
  
  ## Medical career
  
  Richman graduated from New York Medical College and was a "practicing orthopedic surgeon for a number of years." The rest of his career involved medical facilities:
  
  * a "private sanitarium at 50 West Seventy-fourth Street" (1925-1928)
  * 136 East 61st Street (1928-1930): a 20-bed facility named Plaza Hospital. Closed.
  * 161 East 90th Street (1930-1934): Manhattan General Hospital. MGH relocated, and another hospital purchased the building.
  * 305 Second Avenue (1934-1964): Manhattan General Hospital. acquired by Beth Israel in 1964.
  
  Richman subsequently served Beth Israel "as a trustee and as an administrative consultant."
  
  ### Tuberculosis
  
  "In 1949, under Dr. Richman's direction, Manhattan General became the first private, nonvoluntary institution in the city to set aside wards for the care of tuberculosis patients." A 1951 journal noted the unit's "multiple and vesatile" treatments.
  
  ## Family
  
  He was survived by his wife, their three sons and a daughter, "nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren" and "three brothers, Hyman, David and Julius, all of Miami Beach."
  
  