Mount Sinai Hospital (Hartford) Explained

Mount Sinai Hospital
Coordinates:	41.7733°N -72.6997°W
Location:	490 Blue Hills Ave
Region:	Hartford
State:	Connecticut
Country:	US
Founded:	1923

Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut was a hospital founded in 1923, to provide a facility for Jewish doctors who, due to their religion, were unable to obtain staff privileges in other hospitals in the area.^[1]

History

In 1995 it merged with Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center, which had been affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital since 1990, the first recorded instance of collaboration between a Catholic hospital and a Jewish hospital in United States.^[2] The facilities that once housed the hospital are now designated as the Mount Sinai Campus of Saint Francis Care.

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Alan M. Kraut, "No Matter How Poor and Small the Building: Health Care Institutions and the Jewish Immigrant Community", in Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and John L. Esposito, eds., Religion and Immigration: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Experiences in the United States (2004). p. 143.
2. Web site: Saint Francis at a Glance. Saint Francis Care. 2008-07-05. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090511091731/http://www.saintfranciscare.com/Saint_Francis_at_a_Glance/Saint_Francis_at_a_Glance.aspx. 2009-05-11.