Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility (also known as Coler-Goldwater Memorial Hospital) was a 2016-bed chronic care facility on New York City's Roosevelt Island that provided services such as rehabilitation and specialty nursing. The hospital was formed in 1996 by the merger of two separate chronic care hospitals on Roosevelt Island: Goldwater Memorial Hospital, which opened in 1939 as the Welfare Hospital for Chronic Disease on a 9.9 acre (4.0 hectare) tract just south of the Queensboro Bridge; and Bird S. Coler Hospital, which opened in 1952 and occupies most of the north tip of the island. The Welfare Hospital was renamed for Dr. S.S.