Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
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This page is about a hospital in New York. For other uses, please see: Mount Sinai (disambiguation)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. Founded as "The Jews Hospital," Mount Sinai eventually shed that name as well as its stated Jewish affiliation.
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 affliates in the New York metropolitan area, including The Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens.
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.
Its general information phone number is (212) 241-6500.
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
1968.
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM)*
The Mount Sinai Hospital
