Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)


 * This page is about a Canadian hospital. For other uses, please see: Mount Sinai (disambiguation)

Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH) is a hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Although it is physically linked by bridges and tunnels to two University Health Network hospitals (Toronto General Hospital and Princess Margaret Hospital), Mount Sinai is an independently operated facility. It is one of many hospitals on Hospital Row. In its most recent annual charity information return to the Canada Revenue Agency in 2005, the hospital reported having assets of roughly $520 million CAD.

Mount Sinai Hospital has existed in Toronto since 1923 under various names; it has occupied its present site on University Avenue since 1973. As of 2007, Mount Sinai operated 472 inpatient beds. In the fiscal year ending March 2004, MSH admitted nearly twenty-five thousand patients, delivered almost seven thousand babies, and carried out almost nineteen-thousand operations. Toronto and area residents made more than half a million ambulatory visits to Mount Sinai.

More than 600 staff work at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai's research facility. The Institute was established in 1985. Many of its researchers hold faculty appointments at the University of Toronto.

History
Mount Sinai has the largest number of volunteers of all hospitals in Canada. There are over 20,000 registered volunteers. It is affiliated with many Universities, including University of Toronto.
 * It was founded in 1923 as The Toronto Hebrew Maternity and Convalescent Hospital.
 * In 1924, the name was changed to Mount Sinai Hospital.

Governance
The hospital is governed by an all-volunteer board of directors. Current members of the board are: Brent Belzberg, Lawrence Bloomberg, Michael Bregman, Gary Fogler, Leslie Gales, Peter Godsoe, Jay Hennick, Thomas Kierans, Mitchell Kunin, Joseph Lebovic, Rebecca MacDonald, Miles Nadal, Stephen Pustil, Philip Reichmann, Heather Reisman, Gerald Schwartz, Allan Silber, Edward Sonshine, Lawrence Tanenbaum, John Turner, Howard Weston, and Charles Winograd.

Former members of the board include: Marshall Cohen.