Sinai Hospital

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Sinai Hospital is a Baltimore, Maryland hospital originally founded in 1866 as the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum. It is now a Jewish-sponsored teaching hospital that provides care for all people. It is notable as the birthplace of the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, or ICD, invented by the team of Dr. Michel Mirowski, Dr. Morton Mower, M. Stephen Heilman, and Alois Langer who are all in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for their achievement.

Currently, Sinai Hospital is a part of the Lifebridge Health system, which also runs Northwest Hospital in Randallstown, Levindale nursing home (which is across the street from Sinai), several medical office buildings in the Baltimore area, and a health and fitness club.

[edit] Location

Sinai Hospital is locaed in Northwest Baltimore along Belvedere Avenue, near the intersection of Northern Parkway and [[Greenspring Avenue, and about a block away from Pimlico Race Course. The entrance to the emergency room known as ER-7 is accessible from Greenspring Avenue. The hospital itself is also surrounded by Cylburn and Lanier Avenues.

The hospital is very close to exit 10 off Interstate 83.

Several public bus lines operated by the Maryland Transit Administration serve the hospital, included nos. 1, 27, 44, and 91.