Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)

At the time of the founding of the hospital in 1852, other hospitals in New York City discriminated against Jewish people both by not hiring them to treat patients, and by prohibiting them from being treated in the hospitals' wards.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Health/When-the-Jews-congregated-at-Mount-Sinai-376452 |title=When the Jews congregated at Mount Sinai |date=September 28, 2014 |access-date=September 28, 2014 |archive-date=September 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928095346/http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Health/When-the-Jews-congregated-at-Mount-Sinai-376452 |url-status=live }} Orthodox Jewish philanthropist Sampson Simson (1780–1857) founded the hospital to address the needs of New York City's rapidly growing Jewish immigrant community. It was the second Jewish hospital in the United States, after the Jewish Hospital, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, which was established in 1847.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sh4DAAAAMBAJ&q=downtown+cincinnati&pg=PA128|title=Cincinnati Magazine|first=Emmis|last=Communications|date=25 May 2019|publisher=Emmis Communications|via=Google Books|access-date=October 27, 2020|archive-date=October 30, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030221049/https://books.google.com/books?id=Sh4DAAAAMBAJ&q=downtown+cincinnati&pg=PA128#v=snippet&q=downtown%20cincinnati&f=false|url-status=live}}

{{em|The Jews' Hospital in the City of New York}}, as it was called until adopting its current name in 1866,{{Cite web|title=Act of Incorporation and By-laws of the Mount Sinai Hospital of the City of New York.|url=https://www.kestenbaum.net/auction/lot/auction-62/062-016/|access-date=2020-12-08|website=www.kestenbaum.net|archive-date=October 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009020222/https://www.kestenbaum.net/auction/lot/auction-62/062-016/|url-status=live}} 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 American Civil War.[https://books.google.com/books?id=iNKdkR-h8ysC This House of Noble Deeds, Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852 – 2002] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030221020/https://books.google.com/books?id=iNKdkR-h8ysC |date=October 30, 2023 }}, Arthur H. Aufses, Jr. and Barbara J. Niss, New York University Press.{{cite web|url=https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/mount-sinai/about/history|title=History of The Mount Sinai Hospital – Mount Sinai – New York|website=Mount Sinai Health System|access-date=May 25, 2019|archive-date=May 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525175959/https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/mount-sinai/about/history|url-status=live}}

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;{{cite web|url=http://www.chattanoogacwrt.org/200402.htm|title=The Chattanooga Civil War Round Table|access-date=May 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105235148/http://www.chattanoogacwrt.org/200402.htm|archive-date=January 5, 2009|url-status=dead}} Joseph Seligman had to resign as a member of the board of directors, as he was increasingly called upon by President Lincoln for advice on the country's growing financial crisis.[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAseligman.htm The Civil War Dictionary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080429105416/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAseligman.htm |date=April 29, 2008 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.nyhumanities.org/speakers/adult_audiences/lecture.php?lecture_id=1143|title=From Pack Peddler to International Banker: The Life and Times of Joseph Seligman|access-date=May 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907070558/http://www.nyhumanities.org/speakers/adult_audiences/lecture.php?lecture_id=1143|archive-date=September 7, 2009|url-status=dead}}

The New York Draft Riots of 1863 also strained the hospital's resources, as it struggled to tend to the many wounded.

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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 Lexington Avenue between East 66th and 67th streets.{{cite news|title=New Buildings – Description of the Mount Sinai Hospital, and the St. John's M. E. Church in Fifty-third-street|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00E4D8153BE63BBC4D52DFB366838B669FDE|work=The New York Times|date=May 15, 1870|page=6|access-date=May 25, 2016|quote=Our Jewish fellow-citizens are about to erect, on the cast side of Lexington-avenue, between Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seventh streets, a spacious edifice for the accommodation of persons of their own faith, and to be known as the Mount Sinai Hospital|archive-date=June 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624210436/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00E4D8153BE63BBC4D52DFB366838B669FDE|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title=Mount Sinai Hospital – Inauguration of the New Buildings – Gov. Hoffman's Address – Description of the Edifice|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E0DF1439EF34BC4850DFB3668389669FDE|work=The New York Times|date=May 30, 1872|page=2|access-date=May 25, 2016|archive-date=June 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624193225/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9906E0DF1439EF34BC4850DFB3668389669FDE|url-status=live}}

Now called Mount Sinai Hospital, the institution forged relationships with many physicians who made contributions to medicine, including Henry N. Heineman, Frederick S. Mandelbaum, Bernard Sachs, Charles A. Elsberg, Emanuel Libman, and, most significantly, Abraham Jacobi, known as the father of American pediatrics and a champion of construction at the hospital's new site on Manhattan's Upper East Side in 1904.{{cite web|url=http://www.faqs.org/health/bios/92/Abraham-Jacobi.html|title=Abraham Jacobi Biography (1830–1919)|website=www.faqs.org|access-date=May 6, 2008|archive-date=July 10, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090710064444/http://www.faqs.org/health/bios/92/Abraham-Jacobi.html|url-status=live}}

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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 women and one man in the last class. An active alumnae association continues. Since 2013, the nursing school of the Mount Sinai Health System has been Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing (PSON).{{Cite web|url=https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/beth-israel/pson/about/dean-message|title=Phillips School of Nursing Dean Message | Mount Sinai – New York|access-date=May 31, 2023|archive-date=November 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130082040/https://www.mountsinai.org/locations/beth-israel/pson/about/dean-message|url-status=live}}

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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 blood transfusions and the first endotracheal anesthesia apparatus), meant that Mount Sinai's pool of doctors and experts was in increasing demand. A $1.35 million (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|1350000|1904|r=-5}}}} 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 United States Army Medical Corps 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 influenza and pneumonia.

Two decades later, with tensions in Europe escalating, a committee dedicated to finding placements for doctors fleeing Nazi Germany 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 émigrés. When World War II broke out, Mount Sinai was the first hospital to throw open its doors to Red Cross nurses' aides; the hospital trained many in its effort to reduce the nursing shortage in the United 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 Office of Civilian Defense.{{cite web |url=http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/33/6/764.pdf |title=American Public Health Association (APHA) publications |publisher=Ajph.org |access-date=2019-05-25 |archive-date=March 26, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326121912/http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/33/6/764.pdf |url-status=live }}

These wartime roles were eclipsed, however, when the men and women of Mount Sinai's 3rd General Hospital set sail for Casablanca, Morocco, eventually setting up a 1,000-bed hospital in war-torn Tunisia. Before moving to tend to the needs of soldiers in Italy and France, the 3rd General Hospital had treated more than 5,000 wounded soldiers.{{cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.00028/transcript?ID=mv0001|title=Interview Transcript: Isabelle V. Cedar Cook: Veterans History Project (Library of Congress)|website=memory.loc.gov}}

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In 1963, the hospital created a medical school, and in 1968, it welcomed the first students of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, now the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 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 gene therapy, cardiology, immunotherapy, organ transplants, cancer treatments, and minimally invasive surgery.

Among the innovations at Mount Sinai were performing the first blood transplant into the vein of a fetus in 1986, and the development of a technique for inserting radioactive seeds into the prostate to treat cancer in 1995.{{cite web|url=https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/ny/mount-sinai-medical-center-6213140?int=sponsored_search_result|title=Mount Sinai Hospital|website=health.usnews.com|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044833/https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/ny/mount-sinai-medical-center-6213140?int=sponsored_search_result|url-status=live}}

At Mount Sinai the staff performed the first successful composite tracheal 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.{{cite web |last=Allen |first=Scott |date=14 October 2007 |title=At Belmont's McLean Hospital, a doctor's secret led to a quest for answers |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/14/a_doctors_downfall_mcleans_fallout/?page=full |website=The Boston Globe |access-date=October 24, 2016 |archive-date=October 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025045243/http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/14/a_doctors_downfall_mcleans_fallout/?page=full |url-status=live }}

In January 2013 David L. Reich was the first openly gay 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 News [https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=226639406 Bloomberg profile of David L. Reich] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030221025/https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/stocks?blocklist=1774131 |date=October 30, 2023 }} Page accessed May 3, 2015{{cite web |url=http://www.mountsinai.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/david-l-reich-md-named-president-of-the-mount-sinai-hospital |title=David L. Reich, MD, Named President of The Mount Sinai Hospital |access-date=May 20, 2014 |archive-date=May 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140520220957/http://www.mountsinai.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/david-l-reich-md-named-president-of-the-mount-sinai-hospital |url-status=live }}

In August 2016 Dennis S. Charney, the dean of the medical school, was shot and wounded as he left a deli in his home town of Chappaqua, New York. Hengjun Chao, a former Mount Sinai medical researcher who had been fired by Charney for research misconduct in 2010, was convicted of attempted second degree murder and two other charges in 2017, and received a sentence of 28 years.{{cite news|last1=Bromwich|first1=Jonah Engel|title=Fired Professor Shot 2 Men Outside Chappaqua Deli, Police Say|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/nyregion/fired-professor-shoots-2-in-chappaqua-police-say-revenge-may-be-motive.html|work=The New York Times|date=August 29, 2016|access-date=August 23, 2017|archive-date=August 31, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831135359/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/nyregion/fired-professor-shoots-2-in-chappaqua-police-say-revenge-may-be-motive.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Guarino|first1=Ben|title=After losing suit against former boss at top med school, a scientist shoots him, police say|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/31/first-the-scientist-sued-his-former-employer-then-he-shot-his-old-boss-in-an-upscale-new-york-town/|newspaper=Washington Post|date=August 31, 2016|access-date=October 13, 2016|archive-date=October 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013122420/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/31/first-the-scientist-sued-his-former-employer-then-he-shot-his-old-boss-in-an-upscale-new-york-town/|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Han |first=Andrew Philip |date=June 14, 2017 |title=Ex-researcher who shot dean found guilty of attempted murder |work=Retraction Watch |url=http://retractionwatch.com/2017/06/14/ex-researcher-shot-dean-found-guilty-attempted-murder/ |access-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-date=August 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823210848/http://retractionwatch.com/2017/06/14/ex-researcher-shot-dean-found-guilty-attempted-murder/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/08/09/chappaqua-shooting-sentence/|title=Man Sentenced To 28 Years In Prison In Shooting Of Mount Sinai Medical School Dean|date=9 August 2017|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-date=March 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044408/https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/08/09/chappaqua-shooting-sentence/|url-status=live}}

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.{{cite web |author=Ellison |first=Ayla |date=2017-01-24 |title=Former Mount Sinai physician sentenced to 2 years for sexual abuse of patients |url=https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/former-mount-sinai-physician-sentenced-to-2-years-for-sexual-abuse-of-patients.html |access-date=2020-04-18 |publisher=Beckershospitalreview.com |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804034317/https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/legal-regulatory-issues/former-mount-sinai-physician-sentenced-to-2-years-for-sexual-abuse-of-patients.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/nyregion/mt-sinai-doctor-david-newman-is-charged-with-sexually-abusing-4-women.html|title=Former Mt. Sinai Doctor Charged With Sexually Abusing 4 Women|first=James C. Jr.|last=McKinley|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 March 2016|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=January 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170125204306/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/nyregion/mt-sinai-doctor-david-newman-is-charged-with-sexually-abusing-4-women.html|url-status=live}}

Three doctors were convicted of violating anti-kickback laws by accepting bribes disguised as speaker fees to write prescriptions to a highly addictive fentanyl opioid painkiller. Gordon Freedman, an anesthesiologist at Mount Sinai, was convicted in December 2019 in Manhattan federal court.{{cite web |last=Moore |first=Tina |url=https://nypost.com/2018/03/16/doctors-charged-in-alleged-painkiller-kickback-scheme/ |title=Doctors charged in alleged painkiller kickback scheme |publisher=Nypost.com |date=2018-03-16 |access-date=2020-04-18 |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804124627/https://nypost.com/2018/03/16/doctors-charged-in-alleged-painkiller-kickback-scheme/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.modernhealthcare.com/legal/doctor-among-painkillers-top-dispensers-convicted |title=Doctor among painkiller's top dispensers is convicted |publisher=Modernhealthcare.com |date=2019-12-06 |access-date=2020-04-18 |archive-date=August 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804080258/https://www.modernhealthcare.com/legal/doctor-among-painkillers-top-dispensers-convicted |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-doctor-sentenced-nearly-five-years-prison-accepting-bribes-and-kickbacks |title=Manhattan Doctor Sentenced To Nearly Five Years In Prison For Accepting Bribes And Kickbacks In Exchange For Prescribing Fentanyl Drug | USAO-SDNY | Department of Justice |publisher=Justice.gov |date=2020-01-27 |access-date=2020-04-18 |archive-date=June 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621013559/https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-doctor-sentenced-nearly-five-years-prison-accepting-bribes-and-kickbacks |url-status=live }} 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 oncology and hematology at Lenox Hill Hospital and Mount Sinai, was sentenced in 2020 to time served.{{cite news |last=Raymond |first=Nate |date=March 2, 2020 |title=IN BRIEF: New York doctor avoids prison for taking kickbacks from Insys |website=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/health-insys/in-brief-new-york-doctor-avoids-prison-for-taking-kickbacks-from-insys-idUSL1N2AV2BU |access-date=April 18, 2020 |archive-date=March 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303042033/https://www.reuters.com/article/health-insys/in-brief-new-york-doctor-avoids-prison-for-taking-kickbacks-from-insys-idUSL1N2AV2BU |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Reakes |first=Kathy |date=August 3, 2019 |title=Doctor From Queens Admits To Accepting Bribes, Kickbacks In Exchange For Prescribing Fentanyl |url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/nassau/news/doctor-from-queens-admits-to-accepting-bribes-kickbacks-in-exchange-for-prescribing-fentanyl/773223/ |access-date=2020-04-18 |publisher=Nassau Daily Voice |archive-date=August 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805085704/https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/nassau/news/doctor-from-queens-admits-to-accepting-bribes-kickbacks-in-exchange-for-prescribing-fentanyl/773223/ |url-status=live }}

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.{{Cite web |last=Wadman |first=Meredith |date=3 July 2019 |title=Update: Mount Sinai institute director facing discrimination allegations leaves post |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/global-health-institute-sued-age-and-sex-discrimination |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=www.science.org |language=en |archive-date=June 11, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220611090934/https://www.science.org/content/article/global-health-institute-sued-age-and-sex-discrimination |url-status=live }} 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.Atkinson et al v. Mount Sinai Health System, Inc. et al (1:19-cv-03779), https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Mount%2BSinai%2BComplaint.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505200844/https://www.sciencemag.org/sites/default/files/Mount%2BSinai%2BComplaint.pdf |date=May 5, 2019 }} 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 coronavirus.{{cite web |author=Krisel |first=Brendan |date=March 26, 2020 |title=Mt Sinai To Use Lobbies For Coronavirus Patient Rooms: Report | Upper East Side, NY Patch |url=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/mt-sinai-use-lobbies-coronavirus-patient-rooms-report |access-date=April 5, 2020 |work=NY Patch |archive-date=April 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407200758/https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/mt-sinai-use-lobbies-coronavirus-patient-rooms-report |url-status=live }}{{cite web |author=Gorenstein |first=Dan |date=March 31, 2020 |title=Coronavirus Conversations: David Reich |url=https://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/31/cc-reich/ |access-date=April 5, 2020 |publisher=Tradeoffs |archive-date=April 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407200800/https://tradeoffs.org/2020/03/31/cc-reich/ |url-status=live }}

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Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital (KCH) at 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. The hospital has 102 pediatric beds.{{Cite web|title=The Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital|url=https://www.childrenshospitals.org/Directories/Hospital-Directory/P-T/The-Mount-Sinai-Kravis-Childrens-Hospital|access-date=2020-10-27|website=www.childrenshospitals.org|archive-date=September 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926211252/https://www.childrenshospitals.org/Directories/Hospital-Directory/P-T/The-Mount-Sinai-Kravis-Childrens-Hospital|url-status=live}} 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.

{{As of|2019}}, 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.

Mount Sinai has a number of hospital affiliates in the New York metropolitan area, including Brooklyn Hospital Center and an additional campus, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens. The hospital is also affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which opened in September 1968.{{cite web |url=http://icahn.mssm.edu/about-us |title=About the School – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |access-date=July 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511052756/http://icahn.mssm.edu/about-us |archive-date=May 11, 2015 |url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.mountsinai.org/about|title=About the Mount Sinai Health System – Mount Sinai – New York|website=Mount Sinai Health System|access-date=March 24, 2018|archive-date=March 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324162315/https://www.mountsinai.org/about|url-status=live}}

In March 2023, the hospital was ranked 23rd among over 2,300 hospitals in the world and the best hospital in New York state by Newsweek.

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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 cardiology & heart surgery (#6), diabetes & endocrinology (#7), ear, nose, & throat (#28), gastroenterology & GI surgery (#9), geriatrics (#3), gynecology (#18), nephrology (#11), neurology & neurosurgery (#14), and orthopedics (#18) as well as 4 high-performing adult specialties including cancer, pulmonology & lung surgery, rehabilitation, and urology. Regionally, it was ranked the #3 hospital in New York.{{Cite web |url=https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/ny/mount-sinai-medical-center-6213140 |title=U.S. News & World Report: Mount Sinai Hospital |access-date=March 20, 2018 |archive-date=March 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320111529/https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/ny/mount-sinai-medical-center-6213140 |url-status=live }}

• Leon Black donated $10 million in 2005 to create the Black Family Stem Cell Institute.{{cite web|url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/tmsh-mss050505.php|title=Mount Sinai School of Medicine establishes Stem Cell Institute|website=EurekAlert!|access-date=March 14, 2010|archive-date=August 17, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100817085609/http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/tmsh-mss050505.php|url-status=live}}
• Emily and Len Blavatnik 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2018/blavatnik-family-foundation-provides-10-million-gift-to-mount-sinai-to-support-mission-of-advancing-womens-health|title=Blavatnik Family Foundation Provides $10 Million Gift to Mount Sinai to Support Mission of Advancing Women's Health – Mount Sinai – New York|website=Mount Sinai Health System|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302211837/https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2018/blavatnik-family-foundation-provides-10-million-gift-to-mount-sinai-to-support-mission-of-advancing-womens-health|url-status=live}}
• Carl Icahn 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."{{cite web|url=http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/financier-gives-25-million-to-mount-sinai-medical-center|title=Financier Gives $25 Million to Mount Sinai Medical Center|last=Candid|website=Philanthropy News Digest (PND)|access-date=May 25, 2019|archive-date=May 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525175958/http://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/financier-gives-25-million-to-mount-sinai-medical-center|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/nyregion/metro-briefing-new-york-manhattan-mount-sinai-gets-25-million-gift.html|title=Metro Briefing – New York: Manhattan: Mount Sinai Gets $25 Million Gift|first=Richard|last=Pérez-Peña|newspaper=The New York Times|date=24 February 2004|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=May 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528060953/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/24/nyregion/metro-briefing-new-york-manhattan-mount-sinai-gets-25-million-gift.html|url-status=live}} In 2012, Icahn pledged $200 million to the institution.{{cite web |last=Nussbaum |first=Alex |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-15/carl-icahn-to-give-200-million-to-mount-sinai-school.html |title=Carl Icahn to Give $200 Million to Mount Sinai School |publisher=Bloomberg |date=November 15, 2012 |access-date=April 22, 2013 |archive-date=November 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118090414/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-15/carl-icahn-to-give-200-million-to-mount-sinai-school.html |url-status=live }} 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/02/nyregion/financier-gives-75-million-to-mt-sinai-medical-school.html|title=Financier Gives $75 Million To Mt. Sinai Medical School|first=Anthony|last=Ramirez|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2 December 1999|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=August 13, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813191346/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/02/nyregion/financier-gives-75-million-to-mt-sinai-medical-school.html|url-status=live}}
• Henry Kravis and wife Marie-Josée Kravis donated $15 million to establish the "Center for Cardiovascular Health" as well as funding a professorship.
• 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 kosher kitchen at the hospital.
• Derald Ruttenberg donated $7 million in 1986 to establish the Ruttenberg Cancer Center at Mount Sinai and later contributed $8 million more.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/business/derald-h-ruttenberg-88-quiet-deal-maker-dies.html|title=Derald H. Ruttenberg, 88, Quiet Deal Maker, Dies|first=Jennifer|last=Bayot|newspaper=The New York Times|date=21 September 2004|access-date=May 25, 2019|archive-date=May 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525175958/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/business/derald-h-ruttenberg-88-quiet-deal-maker-dies.html|url-status=live}}
• Martha Stewart 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.{{cite web|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-04-15-martha-stewart_N.htm|title=Senate panel calls on Martha Stewart - USATODAY.com|website=usatoday30.usatoday.com|access-date=May 25, 2019|archive-date=May 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525175957/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-04-15-martha-stewart_N.htm|url-status=live}}
• 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.{{cite web |last=Kim |first=Jeanhee |date=July 12, 2018 |title=Power Couples – James Tisch & Merryl Tisch |url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/james-tisch-merryl-tisch |website=Crain's New York Business |access-date=March 3, 2019 |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044234/https://www.crainsnewyork.com/awards/james-tisch-merryl-tisch |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=https://www.mountsinai.org/|title=Mount Sinai Health System – New York City – Mount Sinai – New York|website=Mount Sinai Health System|access-date=March 24, 2018|archive-date=March 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323140534/http://www.mountsinai.org/?|url-status=live}}

• Jacob M. Appel (born 1973), bioethicist and liberal commentator"Diversity in Suspense," The American Spectator, July 9, 2009
• Mark Blumenthal (1831–1921), resident and attending physician of Mount Sinai Hospital from 1854 to 1859{{Cite web |last=Jacobs |first=Joseph |author-link=Joseph Jacobs |title=BLUMENTHAL, MARK |url=https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3434-blumenthal-mark |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=The Jewish Encyclopedia |archive-date=February 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213092513/https://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/3434-blumenthal-mark |url-status=live }}
• Deepak L. Bhatt, first director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital{{Cite web |title=Interventional cardiologist Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, named new director of Mount Sinai Heart |url=https://cardiovascularbusiness.com/topics/clinical/interventional-cardiology/interventional-cardiologist-deepak-l-bhatt-md-named-new |access-date=2024-03-13 |website=cardiovascularbusiness.com |date=October 31, 2022 |language=en}}
• Burrill Bernard Crohn (1884–1983), gastroenterologist and one of the first to describe the disease of which he is the namesake, Crohn's disease.{{cite news|last=Waggoner|first=Walter H.|title=Dr. Burrill B. Crohn, 99, An Expert on Diseases of the Intestinal Tract|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/30/obituaries/dr-burrill-b-crohn-99-an-expert-on-diseases-of-the-intestinal-tract.html|work=The New York Times|date=July 30, 1983|access-date=May 25, 2016|archive-date=September 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907122115/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/30/obituaries/dr-burrill-b-crohn-99-an-expert-on-diseases-of-the-intestinal-tract.html|url-status=live}}
• Sander S. Florman, director of Recanati/Miller Transplant Institute.{{cite web|url=http://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/sander-s-florman|title=Sander Florman {{!}} Mount Sinai – New York|website=Mount Sinai Health System|access-date=July 24, 2016|archive-date=August 2, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802041026/http://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/sander-s-florman|url-status=live}}
• Valentín Fuster (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, 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 (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
• Abraham Jacobi (1830–1919), pediatrician and president of the American Medical Association. 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 American Gastroenterological Association'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{{Cite web |title=CCC Symposium |url=https://www.cccsymposiumlive.com/faculty/1412 |access-date=2022-09-04 |website=www.cccsymposiumlive.com |archive-date=August 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220825104655/https://www.cccsymposiumlive.com/faculty/1412 |url-status=live }}
• David L. Reich, 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 (1914–1995), inventor of the polio vaccine, worked as a staff physician at Mount Sinai after medical school{{Cite web |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/jonas-salk |title="Jonas Salk Biography" |website=Answers.com |access-date=April 24, 2008 |archive-date=September 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170907080635/http://www.answers.com/topic/jonas-salk |url-status=live }}
• Milton Sapirstein (1914–1996), clinical psychiatrist. Sought "to mesh the advances being made in neurobiology in the 1940s with psychoanalytic concepts."{{cite news|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|title=Milton Sapirstein, 81, Professor And Researcher in Psychiatry|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/05/nyregion/milton-sapirstein-81-professor-and-researcher-in-psychiatry.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 5, 1996|access-date=February 11, 2017|archive-date=June 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624210343/http://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/05/nyregion/milton-sapirstein-81-professor-and-researcher-in-psychiatry.html|url-status=live}}
• Samin Sharma (born 1955), interventional cardiologist,  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 (1947–2021), psychiatrist known for his work in studying personality disorders.{{Cite web |title=Larry J. Siever, MD, Recognized by His Peers for Contributions to Personality Disorders Research {{!}} Mount Sinai – New York |url=https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2011/larry-j-siever-md-recognized-by-his-peers-for-contributions-to-personality-disorders-research |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220313040108/https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2011/larry-j-siever-md-recognized-by-his-peers-for-contributions-to-personality-disorders-research |archive-date=March 13, 2022 |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=Mount Sinai Health System |language=en-US}}

• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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• [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0414658949 The Sinai Nurse: A History of Nursing at the Mount Sinai Hospital, 1852–2000] by Marjorie Gulla Lewis and Sylvia M. Barker
• [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0789030772 The Social Work-Medicine Relationship: 100 Years at Mount Sinai] by Helen Rehr

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• [http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=365422 Guide to the Mount Sinai Hospital (New York, N.Y.) Records 1851–1994] at the American Jewish Historical Society

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