Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)

The Mount Sinai Hospital is a nonprofit teaching hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City that provides advanced and specialized medical care. Located beside Central Park between East 98th and 102nd streets, it is the flagship hospital of the Mount Sinai Health System and is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The hospital provides adult and pediatric care across medical and surgical specialties and is designated by New York State as a Designated AIDS Center, Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) hospital, Comprehensive Stroke Center, and Regional Perinatal Center. The institution was founded in 1852 as The Jews' Hospital in the City of New York by Jewish philanthropists seeking to provide care for the city's Jewish immigrant population and professional opportunities for Jewish physicians, who faced discrimination at other medical institutions. It opened on West 28th Street in 1855, changed its name to Mount Sinai Hospital in 1866 as it became a nonsectarian institution, moved to Lexington Avenue between East 66th and 67th streets in 1872, and moved to its present Upper East Side campus in 1904. The hospital later established the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which admitted its first students in 1968 and at which point the overall entity became known as The Mount Sinai Medical Center. Mount Sinai is known for the large number of me

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