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Montefiore Einstein Medical Center
Montefiore Einstein Health System
Montefiore Medical Center's main entrance
Geography
Location	111 East 210th Street,The Bronx, New York, United States
Coordinates	40°52′49.35″N73°52′44.67″W / 40.8803750°N 73.8790750°W /40.8803750; -73.8790750
Organization
Care system	Private
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	2,059
Public transit access	New York City Subway: atNorwood–205th Street atMosholu Parkway New York City Bus:Bx10,Bx16,Bx28,Bx34,Bx38,BxM4 Metro-North Railroad:     Harlem Line atWilliams Bridge
History
Former names	Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids (1884) Montefiore Home and Hospital for Chronic Diseases (1913) Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases (1920)
Construction started	1913; 112 years ago (1913) (campus in The Bronx)
Opened	1884; 141 years ago (1884)
Links
Website	www.montefiore.org
Lists	Hospitals in New York State
Other links	Hospitals in The Bronx

Montefiore Einstein Medical Center is an academic medical center that is the primaryteaching hospital of theAlbert Einstein College of Medicine inthe Bronx, New York City. Its main campus, the Henry and Lucy Moses Division, is in theNorwood section of the northern Bronx. Named forMoses Montefiore, it was one of the 50 largest employers in New York as of 2005.^[1] In 2024, Montefiore was ranked No. 8 amongNew York City metropolitan area hospitals byU.S. News & World Report.^[2] Adjacent to the main hospital is theChildren's Hospital at Montefiore, which serves individuals aged 0–21.

The birth of Montefiore Hospital arose from a series of meetings held in early 1884 among representatives of New York City's synagogues, convened byHenry Pereira Mendes, to honorMoses Montefiore on his forthcoming one-hundredth birthday. Out of these meetings, held in the rooms ofCongregation Shearith Israel, theMontefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, now the Montefiore Hospital, came into being at East 84th Street inManhattan and accepted its first six patients on October 24, 1884,^[3] Moses Montefiore's birthday. In its early years, it housed mostly patients withtuberculosis and other chronic illnesses.^[4] After growing out of its original building, the hospital moved uptown toBroadway and West 138th Street in 1888.^[4] In 1897, the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids established and managed theMontefiore Home Country Sanitarium inWestchester County, which mostly housed early-stage consumptives.^[5] The Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids was renamed Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in 1901.^[6]

It moved again, to its current location inthe Bronx and was renamed Montefiore Home and Hospital for Chronic Diseases in 1913.^[4] It was again renamed, as Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in 1920,^[4] as Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center on October 11, 1964,^[7] and as the Henry and Lucy Moses Division of Montefiore Medical Center in 1981 when it took over the daily operations of Einstein Hospital.^[4]

Montefiore established the first Department of Social Medicine and the first home health care agency in the United States. In 2001, it established a pediatric hospital, the Children's Hospital at Montefiore. The hospital made international headlines when a series of operations successfully separated theconjoined twinsCarl and Clarence Aguirre of thePhilippines. TheMontefiore Headache Center, the oldest headache center in the world, was ranked number one among New York Best Hospitals in 2006 byNew York Magazine. The Emergency Department is among the five busiest in the United States. Its hospitals provide more than 85,000 inpatient stays per year, including more than 7,000 births. In 2007, it was among over 530 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from theCarnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation byNew York City mayorMichael Bloomberg.^[8] On September 9, 2015, Montefiore assumed operational and financial oversight of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine fromYeshiva University.^[9]

During the 2020COVID-19 pandemic, Montefiore Medical Center – Moses division became one of the first designated COVID centers, and the first to achieve in-house COVID-19 testing in New York City using the polymerase chain reaction.^{[citation needed]}

• The first intracardiac pacemaker to treatStokes-Adams seizures associated withcomplete heart block was inserted by cardiothoracic surgeons at Montefiore.^[10]
• The association between endocarditis caused byStreptococcus bovis, since renamedStreptococcus gallolyticus, andcolon cancer was discovered by researchers at Montefiore.^[11]

Montefiore Health System consists of 14 hospitals; a primary and specialty care network of more than 180 locations across Westchester County, the lower Hudson Valley and the Bronx; an extended care facility; the Montefiore School of Nursing, and its ownAlbert Einstein College of Medicine.^[12] In 2022, there were 1,530 staffed beds on its Moses Campus.^[13]

• Moses Division ("Montefiore Hospital"): the 726-bed Moses Division is the mothership of the health system, located in theNorwood section, and includes the Greene Medical Arts Pavilion, an outpatient care and diagnostic testing facility.
• The Children's Hospital at Montefiore: the 106-bedChildren's Hospital at Montefiore, also located inNorwood, is a nationally ranked children's hospital.
• Jack D. Weiler Hospital ("Einstein Hospital"): the 431-bedJack D. Weiler Hospital ("Einstein Hospital")^[14][15] is also operated by Montefiore and is located about 4 miles away, adjacent to theAlbert Einstein College of Medicine in theMorris Park section.^[16]
• Montefiore Wakefield Hospital: in 2008, Montefiore acquired Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, a 360-bed hospital in the north Bronx that had been part of the Catholic health system, and which currently provides inpatient and outpatient primary and consultative care for communities of the Bronx. It was named the North Division of Montefiore, and then the Wakefield Division. It had 345 beds in 2022.^[13]
• Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, an acute rehabilitation hospital located in White Plains, New York.
• White Plains Hospital: an affiliated hospital inWhite Plains, New York.
• Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital inMount Vernon, New York, 85 beds in 2022.^[13]
• Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital inNew Rochelle, New York, 301 beds in 2022.^[13]
• Montefiore Nyack Hospital inNyack, New York, 251 beds in 2022.^[13]
• Montefiore-St. Lukes Cornwall Hospital inNewburgh, New York, 193 beds in 2022.^[13]
• St. John's Riverside Hospital, an affiliate with one campus inYonkers, New York and one campus inDobbs Ferry, NY
• Montefiore Westchester Square: in March 2013, Montefiore acquired Westchester Square Medical Center, a community hospital that had operated under bankruptcy court protection for nearly seven years, renamed it Montefiore Westchester Square, closed the inpatient beds, and transformed it into a surgical center and free-standing emergency room. It had 140 beds in 2022.^[13][17]
• Saint Joseph's Medical Center, an affiliated hospital inYonkers, New York.^[18]
• St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, an affiliated hospital inHarrison, New York.^[18]
• Montefiore Medical Specialists of Westchester, an outpatient facility inScarsdale, New York.
• Montefiore St. Luke's Cornwall Outpatient Center inCornwall, New York.
• Montefiore Medical Park: Montefiore Medical Park, an ambulatory care facility that contains offices for outpatient visits, full-time clinical practices, and administrative offices for clinical departments, is a short distance away from Einstein.

Montefiore is also home to the Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, and the Montefiore Einstein Center for Transplantation. Montefiore also runs aresidency Program in Social Medicine, one of the nation's oldest programs focused on preparing physicians to practice in underserved communities.

• 1963: "an active affiliation" withBeth Abraham Hospital^[19]

Montefiore is a primary clerkship site for third-year and fourth-year medical students at theAlbert Einstein College of Medicine. Einstein offers joint residency programs between Montefiore Medical Center andJacobi Medical Center in Internal medicine, child neurology, dermatology, emergency medicine, general surgery, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopedic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, rehabilitation medicine, urology, and vascular surgery, as well as other sub-specialties. As one of the largest medical residency programs in the country, Montefiore provides postgraduate clinical training to more than 1,400 residents across 150 accredited residency and fellowship programs.^{[citation needed]} Montefiore School of Nursing was also established in 2017 at New Rochelle Hospital and has since then graduated over 250 Registered Nurses.

TheMontefiore Residency Program in Social Medicine is one of the oldestprimary care training programs in the United States.^[20][21] It is located inBronx, New York which contains some of the poorest urban districts in the United States. It is managed by theMontefiore Department of Family and Social Medicine and offers training in 3 primary care specialties:internal medicine,family medicine andpediatrics. It has trained over 700 physicians in primary care with a focus onmedically underserved populations.

The program was founded in 1970 by Drs. Harold Wise and David Kindig. In 1973 family practice was added as a third track. Residents worked in partnerships and maintained their continuity practices at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center, which Dr. Wise had begun in 1968. The RPSM was their response to the difficulty of recruiting physicians to MLK who could work effectively with the community and other members of the health care team. At the time MLK was the flagship of theneighborhood health center movement of theOffice of Economic Opportunity, the main federal agency coordinatingLyndon Johnson'sWar on Poverty.

In 1973 Dr. Jo Ivey Boufford, one of the residency program's first pediatric graduates, became its director and began developing the social medicine curriculum in which all three disciplines shared. This includedhealth systems skills, such as medical care organization and economics; community and organizational skills, such asmedical anthropology, Spanish and community-based projects; research and evaluation skills, such asepidemiology,biostatistics, andhealth services research; and educational and teaching skills, including patient education and curriculum development.

In 1977 the family practice track moved its continuity practice from the Martin Luther King Health Center toNorth Central Bronx Hospital and in 1980 the Montefiore Family Health Center was opened and became the primary site for residency training and faculty practice in family medicine. Because of MLK's fiscal problems, the pediatrics and internal medicine tracks moved toSt. Barnabas Hospital in 1986. In 1990 several independent community health centers affiliated with MMC were organized into the Montefiore Ambulatory Care Network under Dr. Robert Massad. In 1991 pediatrics and internal medicine moved to the Ambulatory Care Network, now divided between the Comprehensive Health Care Center in theSouth Bronx and the Comprehensive Family Care Center in the East Bronx. In 1997, when the Comprehensive Health Care Center moved into a new facility, the social internal medicine and pediatrics tracks were again consolidated there. The Comprehensive Health Care Center, Comprehensive Family Care Center, and Family Health Center are allfederally qualified health centers.

In 1992 the Department of Family Medicine at Montefiore, which administers the Residency Program in Social Medicine, became an academic department at theAlbert Einstein College of Medicine with a Division of Research, a required third year clerkship for medical students, and its own inpatient ward at Montefiore. Dr. Massad became the first Chairman of Family Medicine at Einstein with affiliated residencies atBronx-Lebanon Hospital Center. In 1993 Dr. Massad received national recognition awards from both theNational Association of Community Health Centers and theSociety of Teachers of Family Medicine. In 1995 the Residency Program in Social Medicine became the first organization to receive the National Primary Care Achievement Award in Education from thePew Charitable Trust. In 1996 the Ambulatory Care Network merged with the Montefiore Medical Group and another graduate of the Social Medicine residency program, Dr. Kathryn Anastos, was recruited as its first medical director. Family practice residents began work at the Castle Hill and Valentine Lane family practices, where medical students had been rotating since 1993. In 1998 Dr. Massad was succeeded by another Social Medicine residency graduate, Dr. Peter Selwyn, as Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. Dr. Selwyn enlarged the Research Division and initiated a Palliative Care Service, including inpatient hospice beds.

In 2000 the Valentine Lane Family Practice was transferred to the St. John's Riverside Hospital System inYonkers, and half of the family practice residency moved to the Williamsbridge Family Practice. In 2001 members of the department established the firstHispanic Center of Excellence in New York State at the medical school. In 2003 the department established theBronx Center to Reduce and Eliminate Ethnic and Racial Health Disparities, the first National Institutes of Health Center of Excellence in a department of family medicine. After the Einstein Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine was renamed the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health in 2004, the residency program was housed under the Department of Family and Social Medicine in 2005.

• Peter Angritt – Colonel in theUnited States Army Medical Corps who served as the leader of the Division of AIDS Pathology at theArmed Forces Institute of Pathology among other key roles
• Jo Ivey Boufford – one of the first directors of and is currently the president of theNew York Academy of Medicine
• Lucille C. Gunning – African American pediatrician and children's cancer specialist who pursued sub-specialty qualifications in pediatric psychiatry at Montefiore during the 1960s and subsequently served as director of pediatric rehabilitation at Montefiore during the late 1960s and early 1970s; she was then appointed as director of pediatric rehabilitation atHarlem Hospital and, later, deputy director of medical services of the Westchester Developmental Disabilities Service
• Camara Jones – Family physician and epidemiologist who works on the impact of racism on the health
• David Kindig – Emeritus Professor of Population Health Sciences and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health
• Denise Rodgers – Vice chancellor for inter-professional programs atRutgers University
• Steven Sayfer – chief executive officer of theMontefiore Health System (2008–2019)^[22]

Steven M. Safyer, M.D. was president and chief executive officer of Montefiore from 2008 to 2019.^[22] Before that Safyer had been at Montefiore for 30 years, as a medical resident, an attending physician, and then vice president and chief medical officer.^[23]

In November 2019, the board of trustees named Philip O. Ozuah as the chief executive officer of Montefiore beginning November 15, 2019. He had been thephysician-in-chief of Montefiore Children's Hospital.^[24]

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• Burke Rehabilitation Hospital
• Carl and Clarence Aguirre, conjoined twins who were surgically separated in the hospital
• Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital
• North Central Bronx Hospital
• Norwood News
• NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi (Jacobi Medical Center)
• Program for Jewish Genetic Health
• White Plains Hospital

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