1. 2006… It Starts With You!

2. 1852 – The Jews Hospital in the City of New York is founded

3. 1963 – The Medical School receives its first charter

4. 2006… It Starts With You!

5. 1867 – The first microscope is purchased by the hospital

6. 1944 – Mount Sinai receives its first allotment of penicillin

7. 2006… It Starts With You!

8. 1866 – The hospital changes its name to The Mount Sinai Hospital

9. 1977 – Dr. Roslyn Yalow, a Distinguished Service Professor, receives Nobel Prize for radioimmunoassay

10. 1872 – The Medical Board is created

11. 1992 – Human Genetics becomes a formal department

12. 1878 – The first separate pediatrics department in a general hospital in New York is created

13. 1988 – Mount Sinai is the first in New York State to perform a liver transplant

14. 1885 – Female nurses are allowed onto the male wards

15. 1985 – Formal Department of Community Relations created with a social worker as the head

16. 1890 – First time a physician wore a white coat on the hospital wards

17. 1929 – A graduate nurse is put in charge of each large ward, replacing the third year nursing students

18. 1910 – Mount Sinai Queens… Dalys Astoria Sanatorium Opens

19. 2002 – Mount Sinai Queens completes major renovations including the Emergency Department

20. 1900 – The Neurological Service is established; the first in a New York general hospital

21. 1986 – A Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) facility is opened

22. 1906 – The Department of Social Work, then called the Social Welfare Department, is established

23. 1982 – A separate department of Geriatrics is created; the first in an American medical school

24. 1855 – The Mount Sinai Hospital, then known as the Jews Hospital located at West 28 th Street, accepts its first patients

25. 1938 – A Blood Bank is established; the second in the country

26. 1882 – Mount Sinai installs its first telephone system

27. 1973 – Floors 1-13 of the Annenberg Building open

28. 1933 – The Medical Board recommends that written consent be obtained for surgeries

29. 2001 – The Institute for Medical Education is established

30. 1934 – 8 hour day for non-medical staff begins in response to federal wage and salary legislation

31. 1992 – The Guggenheim Pavilion is dedicated

32. 1950 – Blue Cross (AHS) coverage now offered to all employees

33. 1996 – The Visiting Doctors program is founded

34. 1952 – Mount Sinai opens its obstetrical service

35. 2004 – The hospital is awarded the Magnet Award from the American Nurses Credentialing Center

36. 1875 – An outpatient department becomes operational for the first time

37. 1976 – The Medical Service Plan (todays FPA) is established

38. 1908 – First research fellowship awarded at The Mount Sinai Hospital

39. 1996 – The Icahn Medical Institute, then known as the East Building, opens

40. 1916 – Social Service Auxiliary is formed; now known as The Auxiliary Board

41. 2003 – The Liver Transplant Service performs its 2,000 th transplant, only the third in the country to eclipse 2,000

42. 1872 – The first house staff program begins

43. 1958 – Doctors perform the first open heart surgery at Mount Sinai

44. 1999 – The Astoria based hospital is purchased by Mount Sinai

45. 1922 – After an 11 year lapse, Mount Sinai admits women into its training programs

46. 1993 – The first pediatric living related donor liver transplant in New York State is performed at Mount Sinai

47. 1913 – Mount Sinai purchases the land between 98 th and 99 th Streets for expansion

48. 1990 – The first Employee Recognition Presidential Service Award presented

49. 1900 – The hospital buys its first x-ray machine

50. 1989 – The Lewis Green and Evelyn Green Davis Learning Center opens on 97 th Street for year round care for children of Mount Sinai employees

51. 1944 – Resident staff begin receiving monthly salaries of $40

52. 1999 – The Schools academic affiliation moves from CUNY to NYU

53. 1922 – Occupational Therapy program established

54. 1998 – Mount Sinai opens worlds largest fully automated core clinical testing lab

55. 1872 – Mount Sinai moves to larger buildings on Lexington Ave

56. 1966 – First kidney transplant performed at Mount Sinai

57. 1899 – Although encountering some resistance from colleagues, George E. Brewer introduces the practice of using rubber gloves during surgery

58. 2002– The World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program is opened under the auspices of The Occupational and Environmental Health Division of Community Medicine

59. 1877 – When the wards are divided between medicine and surgery cases, the first official departments are created

60. 2003 – A new 5 year MD/MBA program is developed with the Zicklin School of Business of Baruch College, CUNY

61. 1881 – The Mount Sinai Hospital Training School for Nurses is created

62. 1979 – The first formal institutional Mission statement adopted by The Board of Trustees

63. 1898 – A new law is established that gives Mount Sinai 40 cents per day for each needy and charity patient; costs were then $1.33 1/5 per day

64. 1981 – Terry Krulwich, Ph.D. becomes first woman Dean at MSSM – Dean of Graduate School

65. 1904 – Mount Sinai moves to larger, improved facilities on 100 th Street

66. 1986 – A Doctor Referral Service is created, 1-(800)-MD-SINAI; the first computerized service in New York City

67. 2004 – Mount Sinai Queens opens its new lobby, complete with a Patient Resource Room

68. 2006 – Mount Sinai Queens Imaging Center opens on the first floor