Montefiore Medical Center

Montefiore Medical Center
Location in New York City
Geography
Location	111 East 210th Street, The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States
Coordinates	40°52′49.35″N 73°52′44.67″W / 40.8803750°N 73.8790750°WCoordinates: 40°52′49.35″N 73°52′44.67″W / 40.8803750°N 73.8790750°W
Organization
Hospital type	Teaching
Affiliated university	Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Services
Beds	1,490
History
Founded	1884
Links
Website	http://www.montefiore.org/
Lists	Hospitals in New York

Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, New York, is a teaching hospital that is the University Hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. It is named for Moses Montefiore and is one of the 50 largest employers in New York State.^[1] In 2015, Montefiore Medical Center was ranked #15 of the 180 New York City metropolitan area hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. It was noted for high performance in four specialties.^[2]

History

Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids in the early 20th Century.

Montefiore was founded by "by leaders of New York’s Jewish community" as the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids, and opened at Avenue A and East 84th Street in Manhattan on October 26, 1884, Moses Montefiore's 100th birthday. In its early years, it housed mostly patients with tuberculosis and other chronic illnesses.^[3] After growing out of its original building, the hospital moved uptown to Broadway and West 138th Street in 1888.^[3] It was renamed Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in 1901,^[4] and moved again, to its current location in the Bronx and was renamed Montefiore Home and Hospital for Chronic Diseases in 1913.^[3] It was again renamed, as Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in 1920,^[3] as Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center on October 11, 1964,^[5] and as the Henry and Lucy Moses Division of Montefiore Medical Center in 1981 when it took over the daily operations of Einstein Hospital.^[3]

Montefiore established the United States' first hospital departments of social medicine and home health care. In 2001, it established a new pediatric hospital, the Children's Hospital at Montefiore. The hospital made international headlines when a series of operations successfully separated the conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre of the Philippines. Montefiore Headache Center, the oldest headache center in the world, was ranked number one among New York Best Hospitals in 2006 by New 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 the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.^[6] On September 9, 2015, Montefiore assumed operational and financial control of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine from Yeshiva University.^[7]

Divisions and centers

The 726-bed Moses Division is located in the Norwood section and includes the 106-bed Children's Hospital at Montefiore. Located nearby is the Greene Medical Arts Pavilion, an outpatient care and diagnostic testing facility. The 396-bed Jack D. Weiler Hospital is also operated by Montefiore and is located adjacent to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Morris Park section of The Bronx. Nearby is Montefiore Medical Park, an ambulatory care facility that contains offices for outpatient visits, full-time clinical practices and administrative offices for clinical departments. In 2008, Montefiore acquired Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, a 369-bed Roman Catholic hospital in the north Bronx, which is the Wakefield Division (originally "North Division" - renamed in 2013) of Montefiore Medical Center. In addition, there are more than 350 physicians practicing medicine in 23 community-based locations throughout the Bronx and Westchester that comprise the Montefiore Medical Group . In March 2013, Montefiore acquired the former Westchester Square Medical Center (WSMC), a community hospital that operated under bankruptcy court protection for nearly seven years. Renamed as Montefiore Westchester Square, the site is transformed into a full service emergency department.

Along with the Children's Hospital, Montefiore is home to the renowned Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care , the Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart and Vascular Care, , and the Montefiore Einstein Center for Transplantation

Notable deaths

• Lina Abarbanell (1879-1963), opera singer^[8]
• Herman M. Albert (ca. 1902-1947), New York State Assemblyman^[9]
• Milton Avery (1885-1965), painter^[10]
• Benjamin M. Bloch (1900-1959), Israeli physicist^[11]
• Diana Blumenfeld (1903-1961), folksinger, pianist, and actress^[12]
• Eddie Carmel (1936-1972), giant^[13]
• Camilo Egas (1889-1962), Ecuadorian painter^[14]
• Ralph Forbes (1904-1951), actor^[15]
• Edwin Franko Goldman (1878-1956), bandmaster and music composer^[16]
• Chaim Grade (1910-1982), Yiddish novelist and poet^[17]
• Ludwik Gross (1904-1999), cancer researcher^[18]
• Anna Roosevelt Halsted (1906-1975), writer, daughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt^[19]
• Henry Beaumont Herts (1871-1933), architect^[20]
• Edna Luby (1884-1928), actress and comedian^[21]
• Dewey Markham (1904-1981), comedian, singer, dancer, actor, and entertainer^[22]
• Jack Martin (1887-1980), baseball player^[23]
• Samuel Orr (1890-1981), New York State Assemblyman^[24]
• Theodor Reik (1888-1969), psychoanalyst^[25]
• Isaac Rubinow (1875-1936), physician, actuary, and social security reformer^[26]
• Rabbi Charles E. Shulman (1898-1968), rabbi^[27]
• Jacob Getlar Smith (1898-1958), artist and author^[28]
• Samuel Soloveichik (1909-1967), chemistry professor^[29]
• Joseph Srholez, Jr. (ca. 1911-1957), mayor of Little Ferry, New Jersey^[30]
• Rabbi Yonasan Steif (1877-1958), senior dayan of Budapest, Hungary before World War II^[31]
• Uriel Weinreich (1926-1967), linguist^[32]
• Dick Young (1917-1987), sportswriter^[33]

Leadership

Steven M. Safyer, M.D., is President and Chief Executive Officer of Montefiore Medical Center. An accomplished physician leader and highly respected healthcare executive, Dr. Safyer has been at Montefiore for 25 years, most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. In January 2008, Dr. Safyer assumed the helm as President and CEO of Montefiore.

Departments offering services

A

• AIDS Center
• Allergy & Immunology
• Anesthesiology
• Arthritis & Joint Disease

B

• Behavioral Medicine
• Blood (Hematology)
• Bones, Muscles & Joints (Orthopaedics)
• Brain (Neurology)

C

• Cancer (Oncology)
• Cardiology
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Critical Care Medicine

D

• Dentistry & Oral Surgery
• Dermatology
• Diabetes, Hormones & Metabolism (Endocrinology)
• Diagnostics & Testing (Pathology)
• Digestive & Liver Diseases (Gastroenterology)

E

• Ear, Nose & Throat (Otorhinolaryngology)
• Elder Care (Geriatrics)
• Emergency Medicine
• Endocrinology
• Eyes (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)

F

• Family & Social Medicine

G

• Gastroenterology
• General Internal Medicine
• Geriatrics

H

• Headache Center
• Heart (Cardiology & Vascular)
• Hematology
• HIV
• Home Care
• Hyperbaric Medicine

I

• ICU (Critical Care Medicine)
• Immunology
• Infectious Diseases
• Internal Medicine

J

• Joint Disease

K

• Kidney Disease (Nephrology)

L

• Liver Diseases
• Lungs (Pulmonary Medicine)

M

• Maxillofacial Surgery
• Montefiore Medical Group

N

• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Neurosurgery

O

• OB/GYN & Women's Health
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
• Oral Surgery
• Orthopaedics
• Otorhinolaryngology (ENT)

P

• Pain Management & Anesthesiology
• Pathology
• Pediatrics
• Pharmacy
• Primary Care
• Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Pulmonary Medicine

R

• Radiology
• Rehabilitation Medicine
• Rheumatology
• Reproductive Medicine

S

• Sleep-Wake Disorders Center
• Surgery
• Surgical Specialties

T

• Transplantation

U

• Urology

V

• Vascular Surgery

W

• Women's Health
• Wound Care

References

1. http://www.labor.state.ny.us/workforceindustrydata/PDFs/top50employers.pdf
2. http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/ny/montefiore-medical-center-6213100/rankings
3. Levenson, Dorothy (1984). Montefiore: The Hospital as Social Instrument, 1884-1984 (1 ed.). New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-21228-7.
4. "Montefiore Home's New Title - Will Now Be Known As Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases". New York Times. February 18, 1901. p. 6. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
5. "Montefiore to Change Name". New York Times. October 12, 1964. p. 24. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
6. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/nyregion/06donate.html?ex=1278302400&en=93a1beabd4ede5b8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
7. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/montefiore-health-system-and-yeshiva-university-finalize-joint-agreement-for-albert-einstein-college-of-medicine-300140420.html
8. "Lina Abaranell (sic) Dead". New York Times. January 8, 1963. p. 8. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
9. "Herman M. Albert - Former Register of Bronx Also Had Been an Assemblyman". New York Times. February 5, 1947. p. 23. Retrieved 21 April 2016.
10. "Milton Avery, 71, Painter, Is Dead - Pioneer of Abstract Art in U.S. Was Self-Taught". New York Times. January 4, 1965. p. 29. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
11. "Dr. Benjamin Bloch". New York Times. April 27, 1959. p. 27. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
12. "Diana Blumenfeld". New York Times. September 5, 1961. p. 35. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
13. "Eddie Carmel, 500-Pound Giant At Ringling Circus, Dies at 36". New York Times. July 31, 1972. p. 30. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
14. "Camilo Egas, 62, Painter, Is Dead - Directed New School's Art Workshops for 30 Years". New York Times. September 19, 1962. p. 40. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
15. "Ralph Forbes Dies; Stage, Film Actor - London-Born Player Got His First Role in U.S. in 1924 - Was in 50 Picture". New York Times. April 1, 1951. p. 54. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
16. "Edwin Franko Goldman Dies; Bandmaster and Composer, 78 - Conductor of Outdoor Summer Concerts in Central and Prospect Parks Wrote 'On the Mall,' Many Other Marches". New York Times. February 22, 1956. p. 27. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
17. Shepherd, Richard F. (July 1, 1982). "Chaim Grade, Yiddish Novelist and Poet on the Holocaust, Dies". New York Times. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
18. "Ludwik Gross, a Trailblazer in Cancer Research, Dies at 94". New York Times. Retrieved 2014-09-17. Dr. Ludwik Gross, who influenced cancer research by showing that viruses could cause cancers in animals, died on Monday at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. He was 94 and lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The cause was stomach cancer, said his daughter, Dr. Augusta H. Gross.
19. Krebs, Albin (December 2, 1975). "Anna Roosevelt Halsted, President's Daughter, Dies White House Assistant Went With Father to Yalta Meeting". New York Times. p. 42. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
20. "H.B. Herts Dead; Noted Architect - His Invention of Arch Design for Theatres Eliminated Balcony Pillars - Drew Polo Grounds Plan - An Expert on Fireproofing, He Aided in Drafting City Building Code - An Aviator in War". New York Times (March 28, 1933). p. 19. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
21. "Edna Luby, Actress, Dead - Former "Follies" Girl Was in Private Life Mrs. Samuel Thor". New York Times. October 3, 1928. p. 31. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
22. Fraser, C. Gerald (December 16, 1981). "Dewey (Pigmeat) Markham, Vaudeville and TV Comedian". New York Times. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
23. "Jack Martin Dead; Oldest Ex-Yankee - Jerseyan, 93, Played at Shortstop for the Highlanders In 1912". New York Times. July 6, 1980. p. 24. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
24. "Samuel Orr Dies at 91; Former Assemblyman". New York Times. September 1, 1981. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
25. "Dr. Theodor Reik, Freud Protege, Is Dead at 81 - Analyst Was Stanch Defender of Preceptor's Theories - 'Listening With the Third Ear' Among 50 Books He Wrote". New York Times. January 1, 1970. p. 21. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
26. "Dr. Isaac Rubinow, Social Expert, Dies - Pioneer in Security Movement - Aided Roosevelt Committee in Drafting Legislation - An Author and Lecturer - Physician Was Zionist Leader and B'nai B'rith Secretary - On Ohio Commission". New York Times. September 3, 1936. p. 21. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
27. "Dr. Charles E. Shulman Is Dead; Rabbi of Riverdale Temple, 67 - World War II Navy Chaplain Was on Executive Board of New York's Clergy". New York Times. June 3, 1968. p. 45. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
28. "Jacob G. Smith, 60, Artist and Author". New York Times. October 29, 1958. p. 35. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
29. "Dr. Samuel Soloveichik Is Dead; Chemistry Professor at Yeshiva". New York Times. February 27, 1967. p. 29. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
30. "Joseph Srholez, Jr.". New York Times. November 10, 1957. p. 86. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
31. "Rabbi Jonathan Steif". New York Times. August 28, 1958. p. 27. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
32. "Uriel Weinreich, A Linguist, Dies - Columbia Professor Taught and Wrote on Yiddish Past". New York Times. April 1, 1967. p. 32. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
33. Barron, James (September 1, 1987). "Dick Young Dies; Sports Columnist". New York Times. Retrieved 21 April 2016.

External links

• Medical Center
• Hospital at Montefiore
• Montefiore Medical Center - Department of Emergency Medicine
• Montefiore Medical Center's Official YouTube Channel