Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest

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s in the United States. It is located in

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in the

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, on the eastern border of

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stretching along

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and Fifth Avenues, between East 98th Street and East 103rd Street. The entire Mount Sinai health system has over 7,400 physicians, as well as 3,815 beds, and delivers over 16,000 babies a year. In 2019–20, the hospital was ranked 14th among the nearly 5,000 hospitals in the US by the ''U.S. News & World Report''. Adjacent to the hospital is the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital which provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the region.

History

At the time of the founding of the hospital in 1852, other hospitals in New York City discriminated against

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ish people both by not hiring them to treat patients, and by prohibiting them from being treated in the hospitals' wards.

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philanthropist

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(1780–1857) founded the hospital to address the needs of New York City's rapidly growing

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community. It was the second Jewish hospital in the United States, after the Jewish Hospital, located in

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, Ohio, which was established in 1847. , as it was called until adopting its current name in 1866, was built on West 28th Street in Manhattan, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, on land donated by Simson. It opened two years before Simson's death. Four years later, it was unexpectedly filled to capacity with soldiers injured in the

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.''This House of Noble Deeds'', Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852 – 2002
Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. and Barbara J. Niss,

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. The Jews' Hospital felt the effects of the escalating Civil War in other ways, as staff doctors and board members were called into service. Dr. Israel Moses served four years as lieutenant colonel in the 72nd New York Infantry Regiment; Joseph Seligman had to resign as a member of the board of directors, as he was increasingly called upon by

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for advice on the country's growing financial crisis. The New York Draft Riots of 1863 also strained the hospital's resources, as it struggled to tend to the many wounded. (King1893NYC) pg476 MOUNT-SINAI HOSPITAL, LEXINGTON AVENUE, EAST 66TH AND 67TH STREETS

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More and more, the Jews' Hospital was finding itself an integral part of the general community. In 1866, to reflect this new-found role, it changed its name. In 1872, the hospital moved uptown to the east side of

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, between East 66th and East 67th Streets.

20th century

Now called Mount Sinai Hospital, the institution forged relationships with many physicians who made contributions to medicine, including Henry N. Heineman, Frederick S. Mandelbaum,

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, Charles A. Elsberg, Emanuel Libman, and, most significantly,

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, known as the father of American pediatrics and a champion of construction at the hospital's new site on Manhattan's

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in 1904. The hospital established a school of nursing in 1881. Created by Alma deLeon Hendricks and a small group of women, Mount Sinai Hospital Training School for Nurses was taken over by the hospital in 1895. In 1923, its name was changed to Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing. This school closed in 1971 after graduating 4,700 nurses—all women, except one man in the last class. An active alumnae association continues. PostcardNewYorkNYMountSinaiHospital1920

The early 20th century saw the population of New York City explode. That, coupled with many new discoveries at Mount Sinai (including significant advances in

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s and the first endotracheal

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apparatus), meant that Mount Sinai's pool of doctors and experts was in increasing demand. A $1.35 million ($ in current dollar terms) expansion of the 1904 hospital site raced to keep pace with demand. The opening of the new buildings was delayed by the advent of World War I. Mount Sinai responded to a request from the

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with the creation of Base Hospital No.3. This unit went to France in early 1918, and treated 9,127 patients with 172 deaths: 54 surgical and 118 medical, the latter due mainly to

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and

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World War II

Two decades later, with tensions in Europe escalating, a committee dedicated to finding placements for doctors fleeing

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was founded in 1933. With the help of the National Committee for the Resettlement of Foreign Physicians, Mount Sinai Hospital became a new home for a large number of ''

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s''. When World War II broke out, Mount Sinai was the first hospital to throw open its doors to

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nurses' aides; the hospital trained many in its effort to reduce the

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in the States. Meanwhile, the president of the medical board, George Baehr, M.D., was called by President Roosevelt to serve as the nation's chief medical director of the

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. These wartime roles were eclipsed, however, when the men and women of Mount Sinai's 3rd General Hospital set sail for

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, Morocco, eventually setting up a 1,000-bed hospital in war-torn Tunisia. Before moving to tend to the needs of soldiers in

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and

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, the 3rd General Hospital had treated more than 5,000 wounded soldiers.

Postwar

In 1963, the hospital created a

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, and in 1968, it welcomed the first students of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, now the

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. The 1980s had a $500 million hospital expansion, including the construction of the Guggenheim Pavilion, the first medical facility designed by I.M. Pei. Its faculty has made significant contributions to

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treatments, and

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. Among the innovations at Mount Sinai were performing the first blood transplant into the vein of a

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in 1986, and the development of a technique for inserting radioactive seeds into the

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to treat cancer in 1995.

21st century

At Mount Sinai the staff performed the first successful composite

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l transplant, which was performed at the hospital in 2005. Dr. Jack M. Gorman, formerly Department Chairman of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai, engaged in a long-term inappropriate sexual relationship with a patient prior to October 2005. In January 2013

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was the first

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medical doctor named interim president of Mount Sinai Hospital as reported by ''The New York Times''.''The New York Times'', November 24, 2002. In October of the same year he was named president.Bloomberg New
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, the dean of the medical school, was shot and wounded as he left a deli in his home town of

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, New York. Hengjun Chao, a former Mount Sinai medical researcher who had been fired by Charney for

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in 2010, was convicted of attempted second degree murder and two other charges in 2017, and received a sentence of 28 years. In 2017, Dr. David H. Newman, a former emergency room physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, was sentenced to two years in prison for sexually abusing four female patients in the emergency room between 2015 and 2016, including touching their breasts. Three doctors were convicted of violating anti- kickback laws by accepting bribes disguised as speaker fees to write prescriptions to a highly addictive

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painkiller. Gordon Freedman, an anesthesiologist at Mount Sinai, was convicted in December 2019 in Manhattan federal court. Alexandru Burducea, a pain management doctor and anesthesiologist who previously worked at Mount Sinai, was sentenced in January 2020 to 57 months in prison. Dialecti Voudouris, who specialized in

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and

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and Mount Sinai, was sentenced in 2020 to time served. In April 2019, a lawsuit was filed against Mount Sinai Health System and several employees of the hospital and the Icahn School's Arnhold Institute for Global Health. The suit was filed by eight current and former doctors and employees for alleged age and sex discrimination and based on a list of other allegations. The school denied the claims. Dr. David Reich, president and COO of the hospital, announced in March 2020 that the hospital was converting its lobbies into extra patient rooms to "meet the growing volume of patients" with

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Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital

Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital (KCH) at Mount Sinai is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care

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located at the Mount Sinai campus in

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. The hospital has 102 pediatric beds. It is affiliated with The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and is a member of the Mount Sinai Health System. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the region.

Employment

, the entire Mount Sinai Health System had over 7,400 physicians, 2,000 residents and clinical fellows, and 42,000 employees, as well as 3,815 beds and 152 operating rooms, and delivered over 16,000 babies a year.

Affiliates

Mount Sinai has a number of hospital affiliates in the

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, including

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and an additional campus, Mount Sinai Hospital of

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. The hospital is also affiliated with the

, which opened in September 1968. In 2013, Mount Sinai Hospital joined with Continuum Health Partners in the creation of the Mount Sinai Health System. The system encompasses the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and seven hospital campuses in the New York metropolitan area, as well as a large, regional ambulatory footprint.

Rankings

In 2019–20, Mount Sinai Hospital was recognized on the '' U.S. News & World Report'' "Best Hospitals Honor Roll," ranking 14th among the nearly 5,000 hospitals in the US, with 9 nationally ranked adult specialties including

& heart surgery (#6),

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(#7), ear, nose, & throat (#28),

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& GI surgery (#9),

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(#3),

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(#18),

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(#11),

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(#14), and

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(#18) as well as 4 high-performing adult specialties including

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& lung surgery, rehabilitation, and

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. Regionally, it was ranked the #3 hospital in New York.

Notable individuals

Benefactors

Leon Black Leon David Black (born July 31, 1951) is an American investor and the co-founder and former-CEO of the private equity firm Apollo Global Management. Black also served as the chairman of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City from Ju ...

donated $10 million in 2005 to create the Black Family Stem Cell Institute. * Emily and

Len Blavatnik Sir Leonard Valentinovich Blavatnik, russian: Леонид Валентинович Блаватник, Leonid Valentinovich Blavatnik (born June 14, 1957) is a Ukraine-born American-British business magnate and philanthropist. As of March 202 ...

made a $10 million gift in 2018 to establish The Blavatnik Family Women's Health Research Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and The Blavatnik Family – Chelsea Medical Center at Mount Sinai. *

Carl Icahn Carl Celian Icahn (; born February 16, 1936) is an American financier. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach. Icahn takes la ...

donated $25 million to Mount Sinai Medical Center for advanced medical research in 2004; a large building primarily devoted to research was renamed from the "East Building" to the "Icahn Medical Institute." In 2012, Icahn pledged $200 million to the institution. In exchange, the medical school was renamed the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the genomics institute led by Eric Schadt was renamed the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology. * Frederick Klingenstein, former CEO of Wertheim & Co., and wife Sharon Klingenstein donated $75 million in 1999 to the medical school, the largest single gift in the history of Mount Sinai medical school at the time, to establish an institute for scientific research and create a scholarship fund. *

Henry Kravis Henry R. Kravis (born January 6, 1944) is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.Samuel A. Lewis, NYC political leader and philanthropist who served for 21 years (1852–1873) as the first director, then honorary secretary, and finally chairman of the executive committee. * Hermann Merkin gave $2 million in dedication of the

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kitchen at the hospital. *

Derald Ruttenberg Derald H. Ruttenberg (17 February 1916 – 19 September 2004) was a lawyer who became a deal maker, organizing large industrial mergers. He arranged the merger of Studebaker and Worthington Corporation, and for some time ran the combined Stude ...

donated $7 million in 1986 to establish the Ruttenberg Cancer Center at Mount Sinai and later contributed $8 million more. *

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donated $5 million in 2007 to start the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai Hospital. The center promotes access to medical care and offers support to caregivers needing referrals or education. * James Tisch and wife Merryl Tisch donated $40 million in 2008 to establish The Tisch Cancer Institute, a state-of-the-art, patient-oriented comprehensive cancer care and research facility.

Staff

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(born 1973), bioethicist and liberal commentator * Mark Blumenthal (1831–1921), resident and attending physician of Mount Sinai Hospital from 1854 to 1859 *

Burrill Bernard Crohn Burrill Bernard Crohn (June 13, 1884 – July 29, 1983) was an American gastroenterologist who made the first major advance to identify the disease that now bears his name. Although the description of Crohn's disease is by far his most famous ac ...

(1884–1983), gastroenterologist and one of the first to describe the disease of which he is the namesake,

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. * Sander S. Florman, director of Recanati/Miller Transplant Institute. *

Valentín Fuster Valentín Fuster Carulla, 1st Marquess of Fuster (born January 20, 1943) is a Spanish cardiologist and aristocrat. He is editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of the American College of Cardiology'' (JACC), past President of the American Heart Assoc ...

(born 1943), director of Mount Sinai Heart, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health, The Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai *

Eric M. Genden Eric M. Genden, MD, MHCA, FACS is a United States head and neck cancer surgeon at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. where he serves as the Isidore Friesner Professor and Chairman of Otorhi ...

, Isidore Friesner Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, and Professor of Neurosurgery and Immunology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is Chair of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Executive Vice President of Ambulatory Surgery, and Director of the Head and Neck Institute at the Mount Sinai Health System. Named one of the most innovative surgeons alive today, in 2006 he became the first surgeon ever to perform a successful jaw transplant. *

Irving B. Goldman Irving B. Goldman (1898–1975) was an American otolaryngologist and plastic surgeon. Dr. Goldman created and taught a popular rhinoplasty course at Mount Sinai Hospital (New York). The course focus was the "Goldman Tip," a rhinoplasty technique t ...

(1898–1975), first president of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 1964 * Jonathan L. Halperin (born 1949), director of Clinical Cardiology in the Zena and Michael A. Wierner Cardiovascular Institute * Michael Heidelberger (1888–1991), immunologist regarded as the father of modern immunology *

(1830–1919), pediatrician and president of the

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. Pioneer of pediatrics In the US, devoted to women's and children's welfare. * I. Michael Leitman (born 1959), American surgeon and medical educator * Blair Lewis (born 1956), gastroenterologist who helped develop the

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's position statement on occult and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding * Helen S. Mayberg (born 1956), founding director of the Center for Advanced Circuit Therapeutics * John Puskas, performed the first totally thoracoscopic bilateral pulmonary vein isolation procedure *

, academic anesthesiologist, president and chief operating officer of Mount Sinai, chair of the department of anesthesiology, Horace W. Goldsmith Professor of Anesthesiology. * Isidor Clinton Rubin (1883–1958), gynecologist and infertility specialist *

Jonas Salk Jonas Edward Salk (; born Jonas Salk; October 28, 1914June 23, 1995) was an American virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. He was born in New York City and attended the City College of New ...

(1914–1995), inventor of the

polio vaccine Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened poliovirus given by mouth (OPV). The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends all chi ...

, worked as a staff physician at Mount Sinai after medical school * Milton Sapirstein (1914–1996), clinical psychiatrist. Sought "to mesh the advances being made in neurobiology in the 1940s with psychoanalytic concepts." *

Samin Sharma Samin K. Sharma (born May 28, 1955) is an American philanthropist of Indian descent and an interventional cardiologist who co-founded the Eternal Heart Care Centre and Research Institute in Jaipur (EHCC). Sharma has served on New York State’ ...

(born 1955),

interventional cardiologist Interventional cardiology is a branch of cardiology that deals specifically with the catheter based treatment of structural heart diseases. Andreas Gruentzig is considered the father of interventional cardiology after the development of angioplast ...

, co-founder of the Eternal Heart Care Centre and Research Institute, Jaipur, and director, Dr. Samin K. Sharma Family Foundation Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory *

Larry J. Siever Larry Joseph Siever was an American psychiatrist who was a leading figure in the study of personality disorders. Early life Larry Siever was born in 1947 in Urbana, Illinois. His father, Raymond Siever was a geologist, and his mother Doris Fisher ...

(1947-2021), psychiatrist known for his work in studying

personality disorders Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's cultur ...

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Guide to the Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.) Records 1851–1994
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