Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute

This page is about a hospital in Florida. For other uses, please see: Mount Sinai (disambiguation)

Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute is a hospital located at 4300 Alton Road in Miami Beach, Florida, and is the largest independent non-profit teaching hospital in the state. The institution was incorporated on March 11, 1946, and opened on its current location on Sunday, December 4, 1949. This institution is not affiliated with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine or Mount Sinai Hospital, established in 1852 in New York. In 2009, Mount Sinai Medical Center began an affiliation with Columbia University, allowing for students and patients to treat, research, and study between Miami and New York City.

Today, the medical center has 955 beds located on two campuses and a satellite diagnostic facility located in the City of Aventura. With more than 900 physicians, 3,000 employees and 500 volunteers.

Miami Heart Institute

Recently, Chief Executive Steven Sonenreich revealed to The Miami Herald that the hospital had just retained a firm to arrange the sale of the Miami Heart Campus, the site market value being around $56 million.

Mount Sinai purchased Miami Heart Institute in 2000 for $75 million on the theory that consolidating the two hospitals would slowly ease the competition of the two nearby facilities and improve their image. Since the purchase, Mount Sinai has closed Miami Heart's operations and its emergency room, as of 2004. The remaining services of Miami Heart include the rehabilitation center, hospice, dialysis, and wound-care center which will all make a move into Mount Sinai in the next couple of months, according to Steven Sonenreich. The reason for Miami Heart's being on the market is because of Mount Sinai's expansion.

Many of Miami Heart's doctors have made their move to Mount Sinai or have reserved their office spaces in the new nine-story medical office building currently under construction within the Mount Sinai campus and right beside Biscayne Bay, with a beautiful view of the Downtown skyline and the bay itself.

Mount Sinai Medical Center

Mount Sinai Medical Center provides high-quality, comprehensive care in a wide array of medical specialties. The clinical services Mount Sinai offers are:

• Arthritis & Rheumatology
• Alzheimer’s Disease
• Bariatric Services
• Cardiology
• Colorectal Surgery
• Dental Care & Oral Surgery
• Diagnostic Services
• Dialysis
• Ear, Nose & Throat
• Emergency Medicine
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• General Surgery
• Gynecology
• Hospice Care
• Infectious Disease
• Internal & Geriatric Medicine
• Interventional Cardiology
• Interventional Radiology
• Laboratory & Pathology
• Long Term Ventilator Care
• Memory Disorders
• Neonatology
• Neurology & Neurosurgery
• Obstetrics
• Occupational Health
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Orthodontics
• Orthopaedics
• Outpatient Surgery
• Pediatric Rehabilitation
• Pediatric Emergency Care
• Plastic & Reconstructive
• Surgery
• Podiatry
• Pulmonary
• Psychiatry
• Radiation Oncology
• Rehabilitation
• Sleep Disorders
• Thoracic & Cardiovascular
• Surgery
• Vascular Medicine & Vascular Surgery
• Wound Healing

Mount Sinai currently has 15 different buildings/pavilions and they are as follows:

• Ascher Building
• Blum Pavilion
• Comprehensive Cancer Center
• De Hirsch Meyer Tower (Main Building)
• Energy Building
• Greene Pavilion
• Greenspan Pavilion
• Gumenick Ambulatory Surgical Center
• Knight MRI Center
• Lowenstein Building
• Medical Officer Building
• Orovitz Emergency Building
• Pearlman Research Facility
• Radiology Building
• Warner Pavilion

Celebrities

Celebrities treated at Mount Sinai have included Jackie Gleason, Muhammed Ali (whose daughter, Laila Ali, was born there in 1977) and Louis-Alphonse, Duke of Anjou and heir to the French throne (whose daughter, Doña Eugenia de Borbon y Vargas was born there in 2007). Michael Jackson and Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade have also been treated here as well.

Maurice Gibb, a member of the musical group The Bee Gees, died in the hospital. Juan Chapela, Puerto Rican revolutionary, was also treated for an ear infection at Mount Sinai.

References

• Paul S. George, PhD, Visions, Accomplishments, Challenges: Mount Sinai Medical Center of Greater Miami, 1949-1984.

External links

• Website of the Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute
• Mount Sinai Myspace Site: [1]