Mount Sinai-Beth Israel Hospital within the East Village has formally closed its doorways after 135 years regardless of a authorized battle hoping to maintain it open.
The hospital, together with its emergency room, closed as of 8 a.m. Wednesday morning in cooperation with the state well being division, in accordance with Mount Sinai officers.
The plan to shut the hospital was first permitted by the state in July 2024 and acquired the ultimate go-ahead after a court docket case towards the closure was dismissed earlier this 12 months.
“We’ll make sure that each affected person will probably be taken care of—the security and care of our sufferers is, and has at all times been, our guiding precedence,” Mount Sinai Well being System CEO Brendan Carr mentioned in an announcement.
Mount Sinai opened a new 24-hour pressing care middle at 310 East 14th Avenue to assist with among the neighborhood’s care wants. The hospital mentioned will probably be added a CT scanner and extra providers to the ability within the coming months.
“Mount Sinai’s imaginative and prescient for care downtown is predicated on the concept that at this time care may be delivered to anybody, wherever, at any time. That’s why we’re creating a sophisticated, versatile, outpatient-based, community-connected mannequin of care that’s, most significantly, supported by Mount Sinai’s world-leading hospitals, ambulatory practices, and institutes and facilities of excellence,” the well being system mentioned in an announcement on the MSBI web site.
The hospital mentioned an ambulance will stay on the location on sixteenth Avenue for a minimum of a month in case anybody arrives needing emergency care. Mount Sinai mentioned it notified its 55,000 sufferers of the closure.
