| Mount Sinai Beth Israel | |
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| Mount Sinai Health System | |
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 Jack and Belle Linsky Pavilion of the Petrie Division onFirst Avenue and16th Street in Manhattan. This façade has appeared in many sitcoms, includingFriends. | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | First Avenue at 16th Street,Manhattan, New York, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°44′01″N73°58′57″W / 40.7335°N 73.9826°W /40.7335; -73.9826 |
| Organization | |
| Type | Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Network | Mount Sinai Health System |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 799[1] |
| History | |
| Founded | 1889[1] |
| Closed | 2025[1] |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in New York State |
| Other links | Hospitals in Manhattan |
Mount Sinai Beth Israel was a 799-bedteaching hospital inManhattan.[1] It was part of theMount Sinai Health System, a nonprofit health system formed in September 2013 by the merger of Continuum Health Partners and Mount Sinai Medical Center, and an academic affiliate of theIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The Mount Sinai Health System's school of nursing,Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing (PSON), was founded at Beth Israel Hospital in 1902. The hospital closed in April 2025.[2]
Beth Israel isHebrew for "House of Israel." The hospital was incorporated as Beth Israel Hospital on May 28, 1890, by a group of 40Orthodox Jews on theLower East Side ofManhattan, each of whom paid 25 cents to set up a hospital dedicated to serving immigrant Jews living in the tenement slums of the Lower East Side. At the time, most of New York's hospitals would not treat Jewish patients. It initially opened adispensary at 206 Broadway in 1891, and moved to Jefferson and Cherry Streets in 1895.[3] In 1902, the hospital established its nursing school, today known asMount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing (PSON). On March 12, 1929, it moved toFirst Avenue and 16th Street, facingStuyvesant Square, and the old building was converted into an old age home, theHome of Old Israel.[4][5][6] It purchased its neighbor Manhattan General Hospital in 1964 and was renamed Beth Israel Medical Center on March 10, 1965.[7]
By then it had extended beyond its Jewish base and served the entire population ofLower Manhattan including Manhattan's Lower East Side,Chinatown,Gramercy, theWest Village, andChelsea. In 1988 it had the largest network ofheroin-treatment clinics in the United States with 7,500 patients and 23 facilities.[8] It acquiredDoctors Hospital on the Upper East Side in the 1990s, renaming it Beth Israel Medical Center-Singer Division, and Kings Highway Hospital Center inBrooklyn in 1995, renaming it Beth Israel Medical Center-Kings Highway Division. In 2004, the Singer Division closed and the Manhattan inpatient operations were consolidated in the buildings on First Avenue at 16th Street in Manhattan.
As of 2010 Mount Sinai Beth Israel had residency training programs in nearly every major field of medicine includingEmergency Medicine,Internal Medicine,Surgery,Otolaryngology,Oral and maxillofacial surgery,Radiology,Family Medicine,Dermatology,Obstetrics andGynecology,Neurology,Ophthalmology,Pathology,Psychiatry,Podiatry, andUrology. Mount Sinai Beth Israel also had a department ofChiropractic,[9] Music Therapy, and Acupuncture.
On November 22, 2013, the name of Beth Israel Medical Center was changed to Mount Sinai Beth Israel as a part of the merger with Mount Sinai to form theMount Sinai Health System.[10][11]
On May 25, 2016, Mount Sinai announced a significant restructuring and downsizing, with plans to build a new hospital with only 70 inpatient beds on a site several blocks away, after which the main hospital on 16th Street would close and be sold.[12]
On June 11, 2017, the hospital's Labor and Delivery Department closed, followed by the hospital's "Continuum Center for Health and Healing" later in the year.[13][14]
In October 2023, Mount Sinai Health System announced its plan to close Mount Sinai Beth Israel by July 12, 2024,[15][16][17][18] pending approval from theNew York State Department of Health. Mount Sinai Beth Israel cited at the time that operations were at 20% capacity and losses of $1 billion in the last decade as reasons for the closure.[19] The announcement prompted community protesters to form the Community Coalition to Save Beth Israel Hospital, which sued to keep the hospital open.[20]
The court issued a temporary restraining order against the hospital in February 2024. The health department opposed the order, claiming that the court should not intervene in the regulation of medical facilities.[21]
In August 2024,Moody's Investor Service downgraded Mount Sinai Hospital andIcahn School of Medicine to its lowest investment grade, Baa3. Moody's cited $1.8 billion in debt by the end of 2023, delays in closing the branch, and cash flow damages due to a cyber-attack in February 2024 at Mount Sinai’s payment system,Change Healthcare.[22]
Also in August 2024, the suit against closure was dismissed.[23] A new complaint by the Community Coalition immediately followed the judgment.[24]
In February 2025, the August 2024 lawsuit against closure was dismissed by New York Supreme Court JudgeJeffrey Pearlman. According toGothamist, the hospital subsequently set a closing date for March 26, 2025.[25][26][27]
On April 8, 2025, it was reported that theNew York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division cleared the way for closure.[28] The hospital was officially closed effective at 8 am on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.[1][2]
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