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Encyclopedia > Mount Sinai Hospital, New York

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," Mount Sinai eventually shed that name as well as its stated Jewish affiliation.[1] For the record label, see Hospital Records. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... “NY” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... The Upper East Side at Sunset The Upper East Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, between Central Park and the East River. ... For other uses, see Harlem (disambiguation). ...


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. In medicine, tertiary healthcare is specialized consultative care, usually on referral from primary or secondary medical care personnel, by specialists working in a center that has personnel and facilities for special investigation and treatment. ... Street sign at corner of Fifth Avenue and East 57th Street Fifth Avenue, early morning photograph, looking south from Thirty-eighth Street Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acres, 3. ...


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. Madison Avenue, looking north from 40th Street Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City that carries northbound one-way traffic. ...



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.[2] This page is about a medical school in New York. ...


References

  1. ^ Mount Sinai School of Medicine: History - The Founding, accessed December 8, 2006
  2. ^ Mount Sinai School of Medicine: History - The Early Years, 1963-1973, accessed [{December 8]], 2006.

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External links

  • Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM)
  • The Mount Sinai Hospital

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Mount Sinai Hospital, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (281 words)
The Mount Sinai Hospital (zip code 10029) 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.
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.
The Mount Sinai Hospital receives Magnet award for nursing excellence (525 words)
The Mount Sinai Medical Center is world-renowned both for excellence in clinical care and as a leader in ground-breaking clinical and basic-science research, as well as for innovative approaches to medical education.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine ranks ninth among the nation's 125 medical schools in the percentage of graduates who go on to faculty positions in medical schools across the country.
Mount Sinai also is in the top 25 in receipt of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants with a projected total of over $154 million during Fiscal Year 2003.
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