Mount Sinai Medical Center

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Mount Sinai Hospital
Sinai Chicago
Map
Geography
LocationChicago, West Side, Illinois, United States
Organization
TypeTeaching, Not-for-Profit, Major Urban Medical Center
Affiliated universityRosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science,

Ross University School of Medicine,

Level I trauma center (adult), Chest Pain Center, Stroke Center, Comprehensive Emergency Services
Beds319[citation needed]
Public transit accessBus interchange CTA
History
Opened1912 (reopened under current name in 1919)
Links
Websitehttp://www.sinaichicago.org
ListsHospitals in Illinois

Mount Sinai Hospital, formerly at times known as Mount Sinai Medical Center, is a 319-bed[citation needed] major urban hospital in Chicago, Illinois, with its main campus located adjacent to Douglass Park at 15th Street and California Avenue on the city's West Side.[1] The hospital was established in 1912 under the name Maimonides Hospital, with a mission of serving poor immigrants from Europe while providing training to Jewish physicians, primarily of Eastern European descent.[2] After a period of financial difficulty, it closed in 1918, and was reopened as "Mount Sinai Hospital" in 1919, with 60 beds and continuing its original mission.

History

Mount Sinai Hospital, 1519 South California Ave. in 1922

The second Jewish hospital to be established in the city, Mount Sinai Hospital differed from

kosher
kitchen.

University of Illinois, preferring to donate it for the benefit of the entire community. The community responded to this gesture with a strenuous effort to build financial support for the new hospital. Although women had not traditionally been welcome to participate in many communal activities, the early history of Mount Sinai included a strong presence of women among its supporters. Kurtzon devoted a good deal of his time to planning and designing the new facility. The final hospital plans were drawn up by the Chicago architectural firm of Schmidt, Garden and Erikson. Garcy Corporation of Piedmont, Alabama, designed custom equipment for the new hospital, much of it made of stainless steel.[citation needed
]

Ruth Rothstein, who served as the president of the hospital from the 1970s to the 1990s, resisted calls to move Mount Sinai to the suburbs.[citation needed]

Patient services

Mount Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit institution, which provides charity care to 59% of its patients and is a teaching hospital affiliated primarily with

University of Illinois at Chicago. The hospital is an adult Level 1 trauma center, chest pain center, and stroke center. Due to relatively low utilization and the availability of pediatric inpatient facilities at other institutions nearby, Mount Sinai in 2017 discontinued offering pediatric trauma care and hospitalization for children under age 16.[4] While operating at a financial loss in an aging facility, even in its current state the hospital provides medical care to a vital part of the community.[citation needed
]

Sinai Chicago hospital system

As of 2022, Mount Sinai Hospital is operated by the Sinai Chicago system, which also includes Holy Cross Hospital at 68th Street & California Avenue, Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, and Sinai Children's Hospital, a network of community clinic locations, as well as the Sinai Community Institute and the Sinai Urban Health Institute.[5] Sinai Children's includes a Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit and performs outpatient surgery for children.[3]

Effective June 13, 2022, Sinai Chicago hired Ngozi Ezike, former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, as president and CEO, taking the place of Karen Teitelbaum who was retiring after 15 years.[6][5]

Residency training programs

Sinai Chicago has five ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education) accredited residency training programs in the fields of General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Obstetrics and Gynecology.[7] It has trained numerous physicians who went successfully into primary care as well as into competitive subspecialty fellowships. Mount Sinai also has its own Adult Cardiology and Interventional Adult Cardiology fellowship programs.

References

  1. ^ "Our Locations". Sinai Chicago. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  2. ^ Irving Cutler, The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb (1996), p. 158-160.
  3. ^ a b "History". Sinai Chicago. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  4. ^ Schencker, Lisa (June 20, 2017). "Mount Sinai Hospital to end pediatric trauma, inpatient services". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  5. ^ a b Dudek, Mitch (April 14, 2022). "Dr. Ngozi Ezike to become CEO of Sinai Chicago hospital system". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  6. ^ Schenker, Lisa (April 14, 2022). "Ngozi Ezike hired to lead Sinai Chicago hospitals". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 14, 2022.
  7. ^ "Residency Programs". Sinai Chicago. Retrieved April 14, 2022.

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