Mount Sinai West, opened in 1871 as Roosevelt Hospital, is affiliated with the
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS or Mount Sinai), formerly the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, is a private medical school in New York City. It is the academic teaching arm of the Mount Sinai Health System, which manages eig ...
and the
Mount Sinai Health System
The Mount Sinai Health System is a hospital network in New York City. It was formed in September 2013 by merging the operations of Continuum Health Partners and the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
The Health System is structured around eight hospit ...
.
The 514-bed facility is located in the
Midtown West neighborhood of
New York City
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. The facility provides numerous clinical specialties including, oral and maxillofacial surgery,
orthopedics
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics ( alternatively spelt orthopaedics), is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical means to treat musculoskeletal ...
,
hand surgery,
breast surgery
Breast surgery is a form of surgery performed on the breast.
Types
Types include:
*Breast reduction surgery
*Augmentation mammoplasty
*Mastectomy
*Lumpectomy
*Breast-conserving surgery, a less radical cancer surgery than mastectomy
*Mastopexy, o ...
,
colorectal surgery
Colorectal surgery is a field in medicine dealing with disorders of the rectum, anus, and colon. The field is also known as proctology, but this term is now used infrequently within medicine and is most often employed to identify practices relati ...
,
vascular surgery
Vascular surgery is a surgical subspecialty in which diseases of the vascular system, or arteries, veins and lymphatic circulation, are managed by medical therapy, minimally-invasive catheter procedures and surgical reconstruction. The specialty ...
,
neurology
Neurology (from el, wikt:νεῦρον, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine), medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of co ...
,
neurosurgery
Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and peri ...
,
obstetrics and gynecology
Obstetrics and Gynaecology (also spelled as Obstetrics and Gynecology; abbreviated as Obs and Gynae, O&G, OB-GYN and OB/GYN) is the medical specialty that encompasses the two subspecialties of obstetrics (covering pregnancy, childbirth, and t ...
,
emergency department
An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of pati ...
,
intensive care
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and
urology
Urology (from Greek οὖρον ''ouron'' "urine" and '' -logia'' "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary-tract system and the reproductive org ...
.
In 2007, Mount Sinai West received advanced certification in
total hip and
knee replacement
Knee replacement, also known as knee arthroplasty, is a surgical procedure to replace the weight-bearing surfaces of the knee joint to relieve pain and disability, most commonly offered when joint pain is not diminished by conservative sources a ...
surgery from The Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (
JCAHO
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).
It is designated a
Level III Perinatal
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Center,
AIDS
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Center, Primary
Stroke
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Center, and designated Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner (SAFE) Program Hospital.
History
James Henry Roosevelt bequeathed his fortune to establish "a hospital for the reception and relief of sick and diseased persons," but further funds had to be raised before building and running Roosevelt Hospital. The hospital's first building opened and it began operations on November 2, 1871, seven years after its establishment.
A plaque to its namesake and benefactor reads: "To the memory of James Henry Roosevelt, a true son of New York, the generous founder of this hospital, a man upright in his aims, simple in his life, and sublime in his benefaction."
On the evening of 8 December 1980, British musician
John Lennon
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was rushed to the hospital after being
shot
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Shot'' (album), by The Jesus Lizard
*''Shot, Illusion, New God'', an EP by Gruntruck
*'' Shot Rev 2.0'', a video album by The Sisters of Mercy
* "Shot" (song), by The Rasmus
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. He was pronounced dead on arrival.
Facilities
Buildings were added over time to meet the demands for growth and improved facilities. Additions included the Private-Patient Pavilion (1885), the William J. Syms Operating Theatre (1892), the Accident Building and Ward for Sick Children (1899), a Nurses' Residence (1911), a taller Ward building (1923), the James I. Russell Memorial Surgical Building (1949), the Tower Memorial Building (1953), the School of Nursing (1953), the Garrard Winston Memorial Building (1964), The Arthur J. Antenucci Institute of Medical Research (1986) and a new main hospital facility facing Tenth Avenue – a 13-story
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is an American architectural, urban planning and engineering firm. It was founded in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel A. Owings, Nathaniel Owings in Chicago, Illinois. In 1939, they were joined by engineer Jo ...
-the designed facility was that started construction in 1990 and opened in 1992.
Much of the original hospital, including the emergency room, was torn down to make way for two 49-story residential buildings at One Columbus Place.
The oldest remaining component of the hospital is the William J. Syms Operating Theater, named after its benefactor, a gun merchant. Syms left $350,00 in his will to fund the operating theater “as an enduring monument to himself and at the same time do a great service for suffering humanity.” The theater was designed by architect
William Wheeler Smith and recognized among the first equipped for aseptic surgery. After hosting its last surgery in 1941, it alternately functioned as a blood bank, emergency room and morgue. The free-standing building is now a designated New York City landmark building.
Merger
St. Luke's Hospital and Roosevelt Hospital merged in 1978, becoming St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center. The hospitals became part of the
Mount Sinai Health System
The Mount Sinai Health System is a hospital network in New York City. It was formed in September 2013 by merging the operations of Continuum Health Partners and the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
The Health System is structured around eight hospit ...
in 2013. On November 17, 2015, St. Luke's–Roosevelt rebranded for the first time in 146 years and christened Mount Sinai West – against the objection of the Roosevelt family. On February 7, 2020, Mount Sinai St. Luke's was renamed Mount Sinai Morningside and was separated from Mount Sinai West.
Staff
Physicians include
William Stewart Halsted
William Stewart Halsted, M.D. (September 23, 1852 – September 7, 1922) was an American surgeon who emphasized strict aseptic technique during surgical procedures, was an early champion of newly discovered anesthetics, and introduced several ...
, surgical pioneer; Alonzo Clark (1897–1887), ninth president of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons and consulting physician at Roosevelt Hospital; John T. Metcalfe (1818–1902), medical advocate and consulting physician at
Bellevue Hospital
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, St. Luke's and the Woman's hospitals, the Orthopedic Dispensary, and the Hospital for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled;
T. Gaillard Thomas (1832–1903), former president of the American Gynecological Society, and first to perform and publish an account of vaginal
ovariotomy
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(1870);
(1841–1915), surgeon in the
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) is located at East 14th Street and Second Avenue in lower Manhattan, New York City. Founded on August 14, 1820, NYEE is America's first specialty hospital and one of the most prominent in th ...
, and physician and pathologist to the Roosevelt Hospital (1871);
Robert Abbe
Robert Abbe (April 13, 1851 – March 7, 1928) was an American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City. He was born in New York City and educated at the College of the City of New York (S.B., 1871) and Columbia University (M.D., ...
(1851–1928), first American to use Radium in cancer treatment and
Charles McBurney (1845–1913), surgeon-in-chief at the Roosevelt Hospital, namesake of the
surgical incision
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used for
appendectomy
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surgery; he also introduced the use of rubber gloves during surgery to reduce infections.
Services and departments
Maternity care
Deliveries at Mount Sinai West increased 28% between 2016 and 2019; in May 2019, the hospital sought permission from the
New York State Department of Health
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to spend $10.2 million for renovations to the
maternity
]
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unit.
Outpatient facilities
Mount Sinai West also offers primary care and select clinical specialties at numerous outpatient sites in the surrounding neighborhood of the main hospital.
Emergency department
The
emergency department
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, staffed by 40 physicians board-certified in emergency medicine and offers 24-hr specialized services for victims of sexual assault. It also has a 24-hour stroke team and heart attack team. The emergency department no longer staffs a dedicated pediatric emergency department but still employees emergency physicians trained in treating children.
Academics
Mount Sinai West sponsors 30 accredited residency training programs.
The Department of Medicine trains 158 residents and an additional 39 fellows, one of the largest programs in New York State and in the top 10 largest programs nationally. Each program enjoys full accreditation from the
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
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, and the institution is accredited for the maximum 5-year cycle. The Internal Medicine Training Program utilizes strategies that encourages residents learn from every patient. Innovations include a drip system for distributing admissions and no overnight call anywhere in the training program. The department limits the number of patients that can be carried by an intern to no more than 10. 83% of the programs in New York, New Jersey, and all of New England still allow interns to carry 12 patients. The program also has its own "Simulation Lab" for training residents. The residency programs in Diagnostic Radiology and in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology also utilize
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Mount Sinai Beth Israel is a 799-bed teaching hospital in Manhattan. It is part of the Mount Sinai Health System, a nonprofit health system formed in September 2013 by the merger of Continuum Health Partners and Mount Sinai Medical Center, and a ...
in addition to Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West. Residents have exposure to over 70,000 cases, which cover a wide variety of disease processes, and range from routine to complex and unusual disease entities.
See also
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Architecture in New York City
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Healthcare in New York City
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Insurance
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*
List of hospitals in New York City
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Hospitals
* Manhattan:
* The ...
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List of hospitals in New York
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References
External links
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Continuum Health Partners
Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill buildings
1871 establishments in New York (state)
59th Street (Manhattan)