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Mount Sinai St. Luke's Mount Sinai West
Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai St. Luke's
Geography
Location	1111 Amsterdam Avenue (St. Luke's) and 1000 Tenth Avenue (West), New York City, NY, United States
Organization
Care system	Private
Hospital type	Tertiary teaching hospital
Affiliated university	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Network	Mount Sinai Health System
Services
Emergency department	Level 2 trauma center (St. Luke's)
Beds	495 (St. Luke's) 505 (West)[1]
History
Founded	1858 (St. Luke's) 1871 (Roosevelt) 1979 (St. Lukes-Roosevelt) 2014 (Mount Sinai St. Lukes and Mount Sinai West)
Links
Website	mountsinai.org/locations/st-lukes mountsinai.org/locations/west
Lists	Hospitals in the United States

William J. Syms Operating Theatre built in 1892 at Roosevelt Hospital (last operation was 1941)

Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West, the latter formerly known as Mount Sinai Roosevelt, are two hospitals affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Health System. The combined hospitals are a 1,000-bed, full-service community and tertiary care hospitals serving New York City’s Midtown West, Upper West Side and parts of Harlem.

The two hospital components, which merged operations in 1979, are nearly 50 blocks apart on Manhattan's west side:

• Mount Sinai St. Luke's in Morningside Heights (40°48′20″N 73°57′42″W / 40.8055°N 73.9618°W / 40.8055; -73.9618Coordinates: 40°48′20″N 73°57′42″W / 40.8055°N 73.9618°W / 40.8055; -73.9618)
  


• Mount Sinai West (formerly Roosevelt) in Midtown (40°46′12″N 73°59′15″W / 40.7700°N 73.9876°W / 40.7700; -73.9876)
  

The hospital center is a member of the Mount Sinai Health System, a nonprofit hospital system formed by the merger of Continuum Health Partners and the Mount Sinai Medical Center in September 2013. The official names of both hospitals were changed in January 2014 to Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West as two separate entities. On November 17, 2015, against the objection of the Roosevelt family, Mount Sinai Roosevelt was changed to Mount Sinai West, though is still locally referred to as Roosevelt Hospital.

Although the hospitals are both affiliated with Mount Sinai, they operate effectively as separate entities.

History

Roosevelt Hospital, 1893

St. Luke's Hospital

Saint Luke's 114th Street under construction

St. Luke's Hospital was founded by William Augustus Muhlenberg, pastor of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion. St. Luke's first opened in 1858 at 54th Street and Fifth Avenue.

In 1896 it moved to 114th Street. It is across the street, to the east, from Columbia University’s campus and to the South where it is flanked by the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. The historic hospital building at Amsterdam Avenue and 114th Street was designed by prominent socialite architect Ernest Flagg. The chapel of that hospital has stained glass and is the work of the same architect.^[2][3]

Woman's Hospital

Woman's Hospital was founded by doctor J. Marion Sims with financial backing from Sarah Platt Doremus, who ultimately became president of the Hospital.^[4] From South Carolina, Sims had developed a revolutionary approach to treating vesico-vaginal fistulas, a catastrophic complication from obstructed childbirth. The Hospital was first located in a rented house at Madison Avenue and 29th Street. Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, who served at the hospital, published the first comprehensive textbook in English on gynecology.^[5]

In 1867 Woman's Hospital moved to a new location on Park Avenue, which is now the site of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. This had been the burial ground for New York in the 1832 cholera outbreak. 47,000 coffins were dug up to make way for the new construction.^[5] In 1906 Woman's Hospital moved to 110th Street and Amsterdam. In 1953 it was merged with St. Luke's Hospital, forming St. Luke's Hospital Center. Finally, in 1965, it was moved to 114th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, just across the street from St. Luke's.^[5]

Roosevelt Hospital

Roosevelt Hospital's first building in opening on November 2, 1871. A plaque to its namesake 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." St. Lukes's and Roosevelt hospitals then merged prior to the renaming of the hospital under the Mount Sinai health system.

Mount Sinai West

Mount Sinai West is located on 10th Avenue and 59th Street, two blocks west of Columbus Circle. The current 13-story Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed facility was built in 1990.^[6] The original hospital was on the same block but faced Ninth Avenue. Much of the original hospital, including the emergency room, was torn down to make way for two 49-story apartment buildings—One Columbus Place Tower I^[7] and II. The oldest remaining component of the hospital is the William J. Syms Operating Theater that had a glass roof built in 1892.^[8] It was named for a gun merchant who donated money for it. Its last operation was in 1941 and is now a New York City Landmark. It is still free standing even as the tower surrounds it.^[9]

Sinai West Hospital in the forefront of Midtown West and Hell's Kitchen as seen from a rooftop on 59th St.

HIPAA medical records settlement

In 2017, Mount Sinai West entered into settlement concerning the improper disclosure of patient medical records which was settled as the payment of a levied fine of approximately half-a-million dollars as reported in the medical journal Becker Hospital Review stating: "New York City-based St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (Mount Sinai West) will pay $387,200 and implement a corrective action plan as part of a HIPAA settlement to resolve allegations it inappropriately handled a patient's sensitive health information."^[10]

An ambulance of the St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center

Emergency departments

The Emergency departments at both sites, staffed by 40 physicians board certified in emergency medicine and seven in pediatric emergency medicine, offer 24-hr specialized services for victims of sexual assaults. Both New York City emergency department have a 24-hour stroke team and Heart Attack (MI) Team. The St. Luke's Emergency Department has a 24-hour on-call cardiac catheterization lab for patients having heart attacks to immediately open up the clogged artery. The Emergency Department hosts a residency in Emergency Medicine with 42 physicians; a fellowship in global health led by Dr. Ramona Sunderwirth and affiliated with the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health; and a fellowship in emergency ultrasound. The Department has two board certified Clinical Toxicologists available for consultation 24 hours. Physicians in the Department are frequently featured on the major local and national television network news programs discussing medical issues affecting the community.

Residency programs

Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai West sponsors 30 accredited residency training programs.^[11] 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 nationally. Each program enjoys full accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the institution itself is accredited for the maximum 5-year cycle. The Internal Medicine Training Program is one of the most progressive programs in the country utilizing unique strategies to ensure that residents can learn from every patient. These innovations include a "drip system" for distributing admissions and no overnight call anywhere in the training program. In addition, the department limits the number of patients that can be carried by an intern to no more than 10. 83% of the programs in NY, NJ 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 program in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, is the only one to utilize Mount Sinai Beth Israel in addition to Mount Sinai St. Luke's 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.

In popular culture

• Mount Sinai West's Emergency Room was the site of John Lennon's death on December 8, 1980. It was demolished in the early 1980s.


• "St. Luke's" is mentioned in the song "Renee" by the Lost Boyz as the hospital where 'Renee' was taken when she was shot and subsequently died.


• Jazz saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr. was taken to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital after he collapsed following a television appearance on December 17, 1999, and was pronounced dead after a massive heart attack.^[12]
  


• Actress Tallulah Bankhead died there on December 12, 1968.

In many 'Seinfeld' episodes, an exterior shot of the old 'Roosevelt Hospital' ED is used, shot north on 9th Avenue toward W. 58th Street. Ambulances are parked on the corners and snow is on the ground. The 'Red Cross' cube signpost is in the center of the shot.

Notable deaths

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  David Carr (1956–2015).^[13]
  


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  Bob Simon (1941–2015), car accident.^[14]
  


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  John Bunch (1921–2010), melanoma.^[15]
  


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  John Hughes (1950–2009), Director, Screenwriter and Producer. Heart Failure.


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  Phyllis Hyman (1949–1995), Singer, Songwriter, Actress. Died three hours after committing suicide.


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  Rick Sklar (1930–1992), medical error.^[16]
  


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  Nina Youshkevitch (1920–1988), Russian-born American ballerina^[17]
  


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  Siegmund Klein (1902–1987), Bodybuilding pioneer and gymnasium owner. Died of cancer.^[18]
  


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  John Lennon (1940–1980), dead on arrival after murder.


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  Jerome Irving Rodale (1898–1971), dead on arrival from heart attack on The Dick Cavett Show.


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  Bert Wheeler (1895–1968), emphysema.


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  Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968), Film and theater actress. Died from pneumonia and emphysema.


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  Hugo Gernsback (1884–1967).^[19]
  


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  Benny Paret (1937–1962), telecast boxing match put him in coma and he died 10 days later.^[20]
  


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  Harry Kennedy Morton (1889–1956), throat cancer.^[21]
  


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  Charles Ludwig Wagner (1869–1956).^[22]
  


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  James Aloysius O'Gorman (1860–1943), struck by a taxicab.^[23]
  


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  Robert Henri (1865–1929).^[24]
  


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  King Curtis (1934-1971), stabbing.

References

External links

• Mount Sinai St. Luke's


• Mount Sinai West


• Emergency Medicine


• Internal Medicine


• Department of Surgery


• Hospital changes name