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]
| Mount Sinai Hospital | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 490 Blue Hills Ave, Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
| Coordinates | 41°46′24″N 72°41′59″W / 41.7733°N 72.6997°W |
| History | |
| Opened | 1923 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Connecticut |
History
editIn 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.
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "Saint Francis at a Glance". Saint Francis Care. Archived from the original on 2009-05-11. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
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