The nonprofit[4] 566-bed[6] hospital's roots can be traced to the 1933-built Monroe Community Home and Infirmary,[7] which was a replacement for the 1820s-built Monroe County Almshouse.[8] The Community Home structure "was designed by local architect Sigmund Firestone."
[7] Firestone employed Thomas Wilson Boyde Jr. (1905-1981),[9][10] who later became[11] "Rochester's first Black architect." Boyde's "decorative architectural elements added to" Firestone's design.[12]
In 2017 a local newspaper headlined "Two lawsuits in a month against Monroe Community Hospital."[14] They had publicly fired their director in 2013.[15][16]
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Power plant of the Iola Sanatorium at 422 East Henrietta Road, built in 1928 according to Monroe County records, located across the Monroe Community Hospital