Mount Sinai Medical Center

The Mt. Sinai Medical Center is located in the University Circle area among the city's educational, scientific, and cultural institutions.

More than 100 of its staff members hold faculty positions at the School of Medicine and participate in the teaching of medical students, interns, residents, and fellows. Committed to a broad program of patient care, teaching, and research, Mt. Sinai has 600 physicians and dentists and 16 Ph.D.s on its staff. In all, 75 hospital-based physicians practice in pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedic surgery, emergency medicine, psychiatry, anesthesiology, radiology, dentistry and oral surgery, and ophthalmology, and participate in the research laboratories of the Division of Investigative Medicine and the Beaumont Memorial Research Laboratories.

Mt. Sinai offers residency programs ranging in length from one to five years in dentistry and oral surgery, emergency medicine, medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, pathology, diagnostic radiology, surgery, podiatry, and transitional medicine. In addition, the center participates in an integrated residency program in which residents in urology, psychiatry, and plastic surgery from University Hospitals of Cleveland rotate to Mt. Sinai for additional training.

The present bed complement of the Mt. Sinai Medical Center is 450 beds and 32 bassinets. Of these, 20 beds are devoted to pediatrics and pediatric surgery. The obstetrical unit occupies two floors consisting of a delivery suite, a 31-bed postpartum floor and a 35-bed women's health unit. The remaining beds are devoted to general medicine and surgery and their subspecialties.

The Mt. Sinai Medical Center conducts extensive research programs in the fields of hypertension and cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, diabetes and metabolic disorders, obstetrics and gynecology, cancer, lung disease, eye disease, neurology, and nutrition.

The School of Medicine's Department of Nutrition is housed at Mt. Sinai, while teaching facilities are maintained at the school.

In addition to extensive modernization of the present complex, the program's new structures include a six-story Acute Care Pavilion and an Emergency Medical Services Building.

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