Mount Sinai Medical Center (Chicago)

This article is about the hospital in Chicago. For other similar hospitals, see Mount Sinai Hospital.

Mount Sinai Medical Center
Sinai Health System
Geography
Location	Chicago, SouthWest Side, IllinoisK, USA
Organisation
Hospital type	Teaching , not-for-profit , Major Urban Medical Center
Affiliated university	University of Chicago,University Of Illinois at Chicago
Services
Emergency department	Trauma Level 1 Adult and Pediatric,Chest Pain Center,and Stroke Center,and Comprahensive Emergency Services
Beds	590
History
Founded	1912 (reopened under current name in 1919)
Links
Website	http://www.sinai.org
Lists

Mount Sinai Medical Center is a 590-bed urban major hospital in Chicago, Illinois, with its main campus located adjacent to Douglas Park. 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.^[1] 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 purpose.

The second Jewish hospital to be established in the city, it differed from the earlier Michael Reese Hospital (which had been established primarily by German Jews) in that it was established by Eastern European Jews. Unlike other regional hospitals, it had a kosher kitchen.

The hospital is currently affiliated with Chicago Medical School and University of Illinois at Chicago. The hospital is a Level 1 Trauma center and a Chest Pain Center and is currently operating with a financial loss and an ageing and damaged facility but even in its damaged state it serves as a vital part of the community many are worried that the hospital will have a similar fate as the excellent and larger Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center. The hospital is a non-profit institution and provides Charity Care to 59% of their patients. Ruth Rothstein was the president of the hospital in the 1970s to the 1990s who resisted moving it to the suburbs.

External links

• MT SINAI HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER - CHICAGO, IL, Hospital-Data.com.
• John Fries, Profile: Mount Sinai VP Jackie Conrad: Innovation in Nursing Management Leading to Positive Results, Chicago Hospital News (July 2003).

References

1. ^ Irving Cutler, The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb‎ (1996), p. 158-160.