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Mount Sinai Hospital had its origins in the Young Ladies Hebrew Association for the Care of the Needy Sick, created in 1892
by nine young women in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1900, they changed their name to the Jewish Women's Hospital Association. A 29-bed
facility, named Mount Sinai Hospital, opened in 1903 at 2373 E. 37th St. In 1916, a new, larger facility was opened at E.
105th St. and Ansel Rd. Innovations included outpatient clinics for pediatrics and mental hygiene, established in 1915.
A nursing school was included. Mount Sinai affiliated with Western Reserve University for the training and education of
its nurses in 1930, and its doctors in 1947. Medical research was given a high priority. The Women's and Junior Women's
auxiliaries provided important assistance to the medical staff and patients, including a nursery school for children of nurses
and volunteers. Mount Sinai served as a major medical resource for Cleveland's east side throughout its history. Expansion
included a twelve-story building and a kidney dialysis center (1960), a new laboratory facility (1970), and an outpatient
clinic in the Cleveland suburb of Beachwood (1972). A new medical wing was added to the hospital in the 1980s, and in 1993
an integrated medical campus was opened at the Beachwood facility. In 1996, the nonprofit hospital was sold to a for-profit
company, Primary Health Systems (PHS). In March 1999, PHS filed for bankruptcy, and in February 2000, Mount Sinai Hospital
closed. The collection consists of more than 10,000 black and white and color images depicting the operations of a major
hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, in the twentieth century.
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