Mount Sinai School of Medicine, also known as Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center, is a private not-for-profit institution for biomedical research and health care located in New York City. It is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States with more than 2,000 faculty members. The hospital provides primary and specialty care services to the residents of New York’s boroughs of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. The medical school trains future physicians and scientists through its degree programs: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Ph.D., Master of Science in Biomedical Sciences (M.S.), Master’s Degree in Public Health (MPH), Dental Medicine (D.M.D.), Physician Assistant Studies (PAS) program, Physical Therapy (PT) program, Occupational Therapy (OT) program, Respiratory Therapy (RT) program and Pharmacy (PharmD). In addition to these programs, the medical school offers many fellowship opportunities.
The Mount Sinai Hospital was founded in 1852 by a group of Jewish philanthropists as a hospital for “the indigent sick of our city” regardless of race or religion; it was initially staffed by eight doctors and forty nurses trained at Bellevue Hospital Center. The first patients were received on January 1st 1855 on Ward Street between West Broadway and Centre Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. A year later ground was broken for new facilities designed by architect James Renwick Jr., who also designed St. Patrick’s Cathedral, completed two years later at 11th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue. That same year saw the establishment Justus Ferdinand Leo Lehmann became chief librarian as well as curator for what would eventually become Mount Sinai’s Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library—the oldest academic medical library in New York City still open today.
In 1968 Mount Sinai merged with Beth Israel Medical Center which added 1125 beds to form a 2425 bed hospital system serving greater New York. Also that year Kenneth Jaffe created history when he performed the world’s first split liver transplantation procedure at Mount Sinai. On November 7th 1975 Joan Rivers’ daughter Melissa Rivers was born at Mount Sinai making her “one millionth” patient delivery since opening its doors 125 years earlier on January 1st 1855 making headlines around the world including features on Good Morning America & CBS This Morning. In 1982 Elizabeth Hirst Royce founded Friends Ofmounted Sinaithat has raised millions dollars used to support education & research initiatives as well being responsible for major renovations throughout all buildings that make up Mount sinai complex most notablyKimmel Pavilionin 1999 which won an architecture award from American Institute Of Architects.,
In 1999 mount sinai opened The Stanley Steyer International Center For AIDS Research one block away from main campus furthering their commitment topreventionand finding acureforthe disease while providing compassionate careto those affected ., In September 2013 after five years under construction Icahn School Of medicine Atmount sinaiwass inaugurated adding another dimension topreventativemedicine & translational science initiatives being conducted there ., Todaymount sinaimaintains affiliationswithseveral large NYCarea hospitals includingNYU Langone Health System& Northwell Healthas well as many smaller ones giving them access to over 6 million people livinginthe NYCmetropolitan area allowing them tomaintaintheir statusasa premierinstitutionforhealthcareresearch training & patient care