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Mount Sinai Hospital

One Gustave L. Levy Place
1190 Fifth Avenue
Manhattan, NY 10029

The Mount Sinai Medical Center consists of Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the 1,171-bed Mount Sinai Hospital. The tertiary-care hospital, founded in 1852 as the Jews’ Hospital in New York, is one of the country’s oldest and largest voluntary teaching hospitals.

With a medical staff of nearly 1,800, Mount Sinai Hospital is particularly prominent in the areas of gastroenterology and cardiology. In 1964 the hospital’s research on hazardous materials demonstrated the link between asbestos exposure and lung cancer. More recently, Mount Sinai’s researchers studied debris from New York City’s September 11 tragedy,

Clinical services

• Adolescent health
• Emergency medicine
• Geriatrics medicine
• Minimally invasive surgery
• Palliative care
• Surgical weight loss

Specialized care centers

• The Cardiac Care Center
• The GI and Surgical Specialties Care Center
• The Maternal and Child Health Care Center

The Medicine Care Center

• The Neurosciences and Restorative Care Center
• The Oncology Care Center
• The Perioperative Services Care Center
• The Psychiatry Care Center
• The Rehabilitation Center
• The Transplantation Institute

Outreach programs

• Community education
• Support groups