LeRoy Sanitarium

The LeRoy Sanitarium, later called the LeRoy Hospital, was a medical facility in Lenox Hill, New York. It was founded in 1928 by Alice Fuller LeRoy and closed in 1980.

Notable patients

• actress Marguerite Clark entered as a patient and then died there in 1940.
• actress Laura Hope Crews died there in 1942 following treatment for liver problems.
• actor Peter Fonda was born there in 1940.
• actress Doris Keane died there of cancer in 1945.
• heiress Barbara Hutton was a patient during her separation from Igor Troubetzkoy in the spring of 1951.
• journalist Dorothy Kilgallen had her final birth there in 1954. The baby was named Kerry Kollmar after the father, Richard Kollmar.
• jazz musician Dick McDonough died there in 1938.
• businesswoman Christina Onassis was born there in 1950.
• actress Dixie Carter's daughters, Ginna and Mary Dixie, were born there.
• jazz musician George Barnes recovered from a heart attack there in 1974.

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