Legacy

Mount Sinai Medical Center was founded in 1949 by a group of philanthropists who sought to establish a place where Jewish physicians could freely practice medicine and all persons regardless of “race, creed or color” could receive high quality medical care. More than five decades later, Mount Sinai remains a not-for-profit hospital providing vital health care services to all citizens. To meet the public’s expectation for Great Medicine, regardless of a patient’s ability to pay, Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation preserves the hospital’s rich tradition of philanthropy and community support.

Meeting our Mission

Every doctor, nurse, allied health professional, employee and volunteer is dedicated to meeting Mount Sinai’s mission: “To provide quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.”

Our Mission: Quality Health Care

Mount Sinai provides Great Medicine in a variety of specialties everyday. Our centers of excellence include:

Cardiovascular Services
Mount Sinai specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart disease. With 814 adult open-heart procedures and 4,500 diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac catheterizations performed in 2005.

Oncology Services
The Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer provides a sophisticated array of outpatient services, including: diagnostic imaging, medical, surgical, neurological, gynecological, urological, and radiation oncology, and numerous support services for cancer patients and their families.

Neuroscience Services
Mount Sinai offers a broad spectrum of neuroscience services, beginning in the emergency room. The medical center has spine specialists and neurosurgeons available 24-hours (on-call) in the emergency department. This enables Mount Sinai to treat a wide variety of neurosurgical emergencies without need to transfer the patient to another facility.

Rehabilitation Services
Reconstructive therapy, physical, occupational, speech and recreational therapies, along with medical, social, psychological and dietary services are also provided on an inpatient and outpatient basis.

Geriatric Care/Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders
Mount Sinai was named one of “America’s Best Hospitals” for geriatric care by U.S. News & World Report. The hospital’s programs in cardiac, cancer, orthopedics, rehabilitation, and Alzheimer’s disease and memory disorders enable it to meet the complex demands posed by elderly patients. In addition, Mount Sinai’s Wien Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders is the largest, most comprehensive memory disorders center in the Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative. The center also shared in a National Institutes of Health grant to work with memory disorder clinics around the state and establish Florida’s first Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Our Mission: Teaching

Mount Sinai is teaching 160 residents and fellows in 21 specialties at a cost of approximately $21 million each year. Our commitment to medical education ensures the availability of well-trained physicians for the future of medicine in our community.

As a result of Mount Sinai’s affiliation with Columbia University School of Medicine and its Department of Urology, the medical center has established two new Urology Fellowships. Other teaching programs include:

Independent Programs

Internal Medicine Residency
Cardiology Fellowship
Pathology Residency
Radiology Residency
Surgery Residency
Emergency Medicine Residency
Internal Medicine Residency
Surgical Oncology Fellowship
Breast Imaging Fellowship
Podiatric Surgery Residency
Podiatric Medicine Residency

University of Miami Affiliated Programs

Anesthesiology Residency
Dermatology Residency
Infectious Disease Fellowship
Gastroenterology Fellowship
Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine
Psychiatry Residency
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
Pediatrics Residency
Thoracic/Cardiovascular Surgery Residency

Our Mission: Research

Mount Sinai and its researchers work each day to better understand the causes of human disease and to translate their discoveries into effective new treatments and bold cures.

The medical center has 269 clinical protocols and 15 pre-clinical protocols underway, with 68 clinical investigators and six pre-clinical investigators. Key areas of research include

Oncology
Funded by a grant from the National Cancer Institute, Mount Sinai’s Community Clinical Oncology Program is one of only 63 recognized throughout the country and South Florida’s only such program dedicated to adult patients. More than 70 CCOP trials are underway to explore new prevention and treatment options for all forms of cancer.

Cardiology
Mount Sinai is part of a $30 million multi-site trial to study chelation therapy, an alternative treatment to prevent heart disease. The hospital also is one of only two in Florida involved in the Fix Heart Failure study, which investigates a new pacemaker-like device designed to deliver electrical impulses to the beating heart for treatment of moderate to severe heart failure.

Alzheimer's Disease
Mount Sinai, along with select centers around the state, received a grant to establish Florida’s first Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. This new cooperative is undertaking several projects, including a study to help determine why some people develop Alzheimer’s disease and whether new cognitive rehabilitation therapy can slow or reverse impairment.

Our Mission: Charitable Care and Financial Responsibility

Mount Sinai remains dedicated to providing high quality care in a diverse community. In 2007, the hospital provided more than $54 million in charitable services and uncompensated care that was not reimbursed through traditional safety net programs. Through its community relations efforts, Mount Sinai works closely with civic leaders, conducts needs assessments and collaborates with many outreach groups, assuring that the community’s most vulnerable citizens receive medical care.

Charitable and Uncompensated Care

Charity Care	$16,894,000
Uncollected Funds for Services Rendered	$37,519,000
Total:	$54,413,000

Charitable and Uncompensated Care

ER Visits	43,685
Admissions	22,364
Open Heart Procedures	517
Cardiac Catheterizations	2,801
Outpatient Surgeries	6,549
Inpatient Surgeries	6,172
Total Surgeries	12,721
GI Outpatient Visits	6,093
Births	1,793

Excellence Acknowledged

Best Run Hospital (with more than 500 beds), Florida Medical Business Magazine
Kids Crown Award: Best Place to Give Birth in Miami-Dade Hospital, South Florida Parenting Magazine
UnitedHealth Premium^SM Cardiac Specialty Center
Excellence in Facility Expansion (awarded to Mount Sinai’s cardiac catheterization laboratory), South Florida Business Journal
Outstanding Achievement Award, American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer
Clinical Trials Participation Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology
Excellence in Health Services (awarded to the Community Clinical Oncology Program), South Florida Business Journal

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