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The Mount Sinai Hospital

Founded in 1853, The Mount Sinai Hospital is an 1171-bed major urban hospital. Noted for delivering the most sophisticated and advanced medical care available, The Mount Sinai Hospital provides primary care services to local residents as well as tertiary care to patients referred from around the world.

Located on the border of East Harlem, a predominantly Hispanic and African-American community, and the Upper East Side, one of the wealthiest, Mount Sinai attracts a culturally, economically and medically diverse patient population.

The inpatient services at The Mount Sinai Hospital are divided into three firms:

• The Popper Firm with digestive, liver, cardiac and complex pulmonary diseases
• The Wasserman Firm with a focus on HIV, and hematology/oncology patients
• The Berson firm, with a mixture of general medicine and geriatric patients.

Each firm is named for a Mount Sinai physician who made major contributions to his field:

• Hans Popper, M.D., is known as the father of hepatology for his ground breaking work on liver diseases
• Louis Wasserman, M.D., is remembered for his pioneering work in hematology
• Solomon Berson, M.D., made major contributions to biomedical sciences and possessed outstanding teaching and clinical skills.

These are only three of the countless Mount Sinai physicians who have made significant discoveries that have advanced the practice of medicine.

Other Mount Sinai contributions include discovery of the causal relationship between asbestos and lung cancer; establishment of the first program to match blood types for transfusion; development of a way to preserve blood for later transfusion; the first cardiac stress test for heart disease, and invention of the first radioimmunoassay.

Our physicians are steeped in a tradition of clinical excellence. They are committed to continuing this record of outstanding individual patient care coupled with advances in clinical and basic investigation.

The Mount Sinai Hospital currently boasts world leadership in a number of major clinical programs. The Transplant Institute is at the forefront of solid organ and bone marrow transplantation, including one of the busiest liver and small intestine transplant services in the world. The renal transplant program is the largest in the tristate area. These services are supported by an immunobiology research and clinical care center.

In Gastroenterology, Mount Sinai treats one of the largest cohorts of inflammatory bowel disease patients in the world. The Mount Sinai Heart Hospital (a.k.a. "Mount Sinai Heart") leads the region in invasive and noninvasive cardiology, as well as research in basic vascular biology.

The Ruttenberg Treatment Center is one of the busiest centers for oncology care in the region. This is supplemented by world-renowned programs in head and neck surgery, geriatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, and gene therapy.

The Jack Martin Fund Clinic is one of the largest clinics for the care of HIV infected patients in the country. Creation of the Emerging Pathogens Center and extensive work with survivors of the World Trade Center attacks have made Mount Sinai a leader in responding to current environmental health threats.

A newly created Personalized Medicine Institute brings innovative technology in clinical genomics and proteomics to both research and clinical care in the Department of Medicine.

The Gustave L. and Janet Levy Library at Mount Sinai contain over 170,000 volumes and 1,900 current periodicals. The library is accessible from computers that are maintained on each of the teaching wards throughout the hospital.

The Department of Medicine teaching services reside in the Guggenheim Pavilion, a building designed by the renowned architect I.M. Pei. This hospital, a true architectural masterpiece, includes three hospital towers in one grand pavilion with 625 patient care beds.

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