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The Mount Sinai Health System is the largest
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in
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. It was formed in September 2013 by merging the operations of Continuum Health Partners and Mount Sinai Medical Center. The Health System is structured around eight hospital campuses, the
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City, New York, United States. The school is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sina ...
and Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing (PSON). The eight hospitals are:
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Mount Sinai Beth Israel was a 799-bed teaching hospital in Manhattan. It was part of the Mount Sinai Health System, a nonprofit health system formed in September 2013 by the merger of Continuum Health Partners and Mount Sinai Medical Center, and ...
(closed in April 2025) Mount Sinai Brooklyn, Mount Sinai Hospital (including
Kravis Children's Hospital Kravis Children's Hospital (KCH) at Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan), Mount Sinai is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care children's hospital located at the Mount Sinai campus in Manhattan, New York City, New York (state), New York. The hospi ...
), Mount Sinai Queens,
Mount Sinai Morningside Mount Sinai Morningside, formerly known as Mount Sinai St. Luke's, is a teaching hospital located in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan, Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is affiliated with the Icahn School of M ...
(formerly Mount Sinai St. Luke's),
Mount Sinai West Mount Sinai West, opened in 1871 as Roosevelt Hospital, is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System. The 514-bed facility is located in the Midtown West neighborhood of New York City. The fa ...
(formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt), New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, and Mount Sinai South Nassau. The Health System includes more than 6,600 primary and specialty care physicians and 13 ambulatory surgical centers. It has ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester County, and Long Island, along with more than 30 affiliated community health centers.Mount Sinai Facts & Figures
/ref> In the 2017–2018 fiscal year, the Health System employed more than 39,000 people and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai had 33 multidisciplinary research, educational, and clinical institutes. In addition, the Health System reported 3,360 beds among its seven hospitals as well as 136,528 inpatient admissions, 500,901 Emergency Department visits, and more than 14,700 babies delivered.


History

The Mount Sinai Health System began as a single hospital, founded in 1852 and opened in 1855 as the Jews' Hospital. In 1864, the hospital became formally nonsectarian and, in 1866, changed its name to The Mount Sinai Hospital. The hospital is one of the oldest and largest
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in the U.S. The hospital campus is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, beside Central Park.


Educational expansion

In 1881, the Mount Sinai Hospital established a training school for doctors and nurses. Prior to its establishment it had been served by untrained male and female attendants. The school closed in September 1971 amid financial difficulties and a failed plan to affiliate with the
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. The charter was taken up by The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Continuing Education in Nursing, founded in the fall of 1975. In 1963 The Mount Sinai Hospital chartered The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the first medical school to grow out of a non-university in more than 50 years. The school opened to students in 1968 and in 2012 changed its name to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The school and the hospital together formed the Mount Sinai Health Center. In 2013, Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing (PSON), founded in 1902, became the nursing school of the Mount Sinai Health System. In 2016, the Mount Sinai Health System announced a partnership with Stony Brook Medicine, allowing for joint programs between the
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City, New York, United States. The school is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sina ...
and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.


Mount Sinai Queens

In 1993, Astoria General Hospital located on 30th Avenue in
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, became an
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of The Mount Sinai Hospital. A year later the hospital's name changed to Western Queens Community Hospital. In 1999, the hospital was purchased by Mount Sinai and had its name changed again, this time to Mount Sinai Queens, becoming the first
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to bear the Mount Sinai name.


Continuum Health Partners

On January 9, 1997, St. Luke's-Roosevelt entered into a partnership with Beth Israel Medical Center forming the Greater Metropolitan Health Systems, Inc. In April 1998, Greater Metropolitan Health Systems, Inc. was renamed Continuum Health Partners. The entity served as a parent corporation while the two hospital centers continued as separate business entities with their own constituent hospital campuses. With a total combined annual operating budget of $2.1 billion, Continuum hospitals delivered inpatient care through nearly 3,100 certified beds located in seven major facilities in Manhattan and Brooklyn, while providing outpatient care in private practice settings and ambulatory centers. Continuum treated patients in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Westchester County.


Continuum and Mount Sinai merger

In September 2013, Continuum announced a merger with the Mount Sinai Medical Center. Brand unification was complete in January 2014.


Contract dispute with Aetna

In April 2010,
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notified policyholders that it was in a contract dispute with Continuum Health Partners and that the contract would lapse as of June 5, 2010. The June 5 date passed and the contract lapsed. Continuum Health Partners provided subscribers with a form to request that Aetna retain their physicians for one year or until the policy period ended. On July 28, 2010, Continuum Health Partners announced a new agreement with Aetna. Within this agreement, it was noted that the effective date would be retroactive to the April 5, 2010, termination date.


Controversies


Medicare audit and over-billing settlement

In May 2017, ''Modern Healthcare'' reported that issues of improper billing were being attributed to Mount Sinai by government health care officials. At the time, Mount Sinai officials admitted to partial misconduct and offered to cover limited billing claims retroactively.


HIPAA medical records settlement

In 2017, Mount Sinai West entered into a settlement concerning the improper disclosure of patient medical records and paid a fine of $387,000.


2019 discrimination lawsuit

In April 2019, Mount Sinai was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by discrimination lawyer
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on behalf of eight current and former employees for age and sex discrimination at its Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine. Also named in the suit are Dr. Prabhjot Singh, Director of the institute, Dr. Dennis S. Charney, Dean of the Icahn School, David Berman, the institute's Chief of Staff, and Bruno Silva, Director of Design and Product Development at the institute. Mount Sinai and the four named men are accused of allowing a range of illegal activities, including acting "abusive, dismissive and hostile" to and discriminating against women, especially older women; verbal abuse of women; lying to financial donors such as
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; misallocating funds; giving preferential treatment and higher salaries to men; failing to obtain
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approval prior to conducting research in violation of federal guidelines; failing to comply with the
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or HIPAA. The defendants' alleged actions included referring to female employees using derogatory terms, and aggressive screaming at said employees. In May 2019, more than 150 students at the Icahn School signed a letter, addressed to the Board of Trustees, calling on Mount Sinai to further investigate allegations of gender and age discrimination as a result of the legal filing. In July 2019, Singh said he is stepping down from his leadership role following helawsuit, but will remain on the faculty in a new role. In August 2019, the plaintiffs filed an amended complaint alleging further allegations, including possible spoliation of evidence.


Advertising

In January 2016, Mount Sinai launched their first nationwide print and television
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focused on promoting their network of hospitals, ambulatory practices, community health centers, and affiliations beyond the state of New York. Mount Sinai worked with the advertising agency DeVito/Verdi since 2003 and the firm created the latest national campaign. In 2018, Mount Sinai again worked with DeVito/Verdi on a campaign to promote the clinical care and procedures available to New York residents. The health system also worked on a campaign with the
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focused on
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and
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. In 2019, the health system launched a television advertising campaign linked with an offline
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awareness during the
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. In 2021, Mount Sinai launched an ad-campaign and its new slogan of the same title, "We Find a Way". Working with marketing agency SS+K, the camping highlighted intense moments between real-life medical staff and their patients in photos taken by photojournalists Ron Haviv and Ashley Gilbertson.


Health System Components


Member Hospitals, Medical School & Nursing School


Hospital

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Nursing Home and Long Term Care Facility Affiliates

*Archcare at Terence Cardinal Cooke Health Care Center * James J. Peters VA Medical Center Home * Jewish Home Lifecare (Bronx) *Jewish Home Lifecare (Manhattan)


Additional Components

*Mount Sinai Health Network owned physician practices *Mount Sinai Health Network affiliated physician practices *Mount Sinai Doctors faculty practice (urgent care and outpatient practices)


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External links

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