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Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
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- This page is about a hospital in New York. For other uses, please see: Mount Sinai (disambiguation)
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Place | One Gustave L. Levy Place, 1190 Fifth Avenue New York, New York, (US) |
| Organization | |
| Care System | Unknown |
| Hospital Type | Community, Teaching |
| Affiliated University | Mount Sinai School of Medicine |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | Unknown |
| Beds | 1,171 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1852 |
| Links | |
| Website | Homepage |
| See also | Hospitals in the United States |
The Mount Sinai Hospital is a hospital in New York City, New York, serving Manhattan's Upper East Side and Harlem.
Founded in 1852, Mount Sinai is one of the oldest and largest voluntary teaching hospitals in the United States. Founded as "The Jews' Hospital," its services are offered to all regardless of religious affiliation.
It is a 1,171-bed tertiary care teaching hospital, featuring a medical staff of nearly 1,800. The hospital is located at 100th Street and Fifth Avenue, on the eastern border of Central Park. Mount Sinai has numerous hospitals affiliates in the New York metropolitan area, including The Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens.
The medical library was originally located at Madison Avenue and 100th Street and was known as the Jacobi Library. This became the core of the new library of the school of medicine and is now known as the Levy Library.
The hospital is also affiliated with one of the foremost centers of medical education and biomedical research, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which opened in September 1968.[1]
Contents |
As of 2007, Mount Sinai has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as being one of the top hospitals in the United States. The current (2007) rankings are shown below:[2]
| Ranking | Specialty |
|---|---|
| #3 | geriatrics |
| #9 | digestive disorders |
| #19 | rehabilitation |
| #21 | neurology and neurosurgery |
| #24 | ear, nose, and throat |
| #33 | gynecology |
- Julie Andrews (Underwent a throat surgery to cure her vocal problems and was left unable to sing)
- Norman Mailer (died there; acute renal failure)[3]
- Gwyneth Paltrow (gave birth there; to Moses Bruce Anthony Martin)[4]
- Ed Bradley was treated and died there of cancer.
- ^ Mount Sinai School of Medicine: History - The Early Years, 1963-1973, accessed December 8, 2006.
- ^ "America's Best Hospitals 2007: Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York", U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved on 2007-10-18.
- ^ http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20159578,00.html
- ^ http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1175007,00.html
