Mount Sinai Hospital

Name :

Mount Sinai Hospital

Address  :

Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Health Complex
600 University Avenue

Town  :

Toronto

State  :

Ontario

Country  :

CANADA

Post Code:

M5G 1X5

Phone  :

416 596 4200

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

communicationsandmarketing@mtsinai.on.ca

Description

About Us
Dedicated to discovering and delivering the best patient care with the heart and values true to our heritage

As one of Canadas preeminent patient care research and academic health science centres and one of Greater Torontos Top 90 Employers Mount Sinai Hospital has a wellearned reputation for excellence in the community and also well beyond our borders

In 1923 we began our history as a 33bed maternity and convalescent hospital Today we are a stateoftheart 472bed patient care teaching and research hospital but the reason were here has not changed since the day we opened our doors serving our patients and their families

History

Mount Sinais first home at 100 Yorkville
In August of 1913 four immigrant women from Torontos Jewish community started knocking on neighbourhood doors to raise money for a hospital

The Jewish immigrant population in Toronto was burgeoning most of the new immigrants didnt speak English and were afraid of large institutions And sadly not a hospital in the city would give Jewish doctors a place to practice

It took them nine years but by 1922 the Mrs Cohn Miller Spiegel and Adler had raised 12000 enough to buy a building at 100 Yorkville

In 1923 The Hebrew Maternity and Convalescent Hospital opened its doors

Much has changed about that hospital since it opened The name became Mount Sinai Hospital and it moved locations several times It grew from 30 beds to 472 and it became in very short order one of North Americas preeminent medical teaching and research institutions

It also developed a worldwide reputation for excellence in genetic research womens and infants health surgical oncology gastrointestinal diseases diabetes general psychiatry critical care and cardiology

And it became so culturally inclusive that there are now interpreters for Mount Sinai patients in over 45 languages

Yet much has also remained the same

The vision determination and selfless concern for the wellbeing of the community that characterized Mount Sinais beginnings still drive the Hospital today Mount Sinai was always and will always be a place where Big Minds and Bright Hearts practice nothing but The Best Medicine

Mount Sinai Firsts
Four immigrant women starting a hospital was certainly a first for Toronto perhaps for the world but that was only the first of many firsts for Mount Sinai Hospital

Here are just a few

Mount Sinai was the first Canadian hospital to screen for osteoporosis and the first to use mammography machines We were the first to find a way to detect and correct thyroid imbalance at birth saving millions of children from developmental delays

We established the first Breast Screening Study in the country the first Bone and Tissue bank in the city

Our scientists discovered how cells communicate with each other and also developed the first two human embryonic stem cell lines in Canada two incredibly important advances in the progress of genomic medicine worldwide