Mt. Sinai Hospital and Medical Center

Mt. Sinai Hospital and Medical Center, 15th Street at California Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60608

Mt. Sinai Hospital and Medical Center is an acute care hospital. It provides emergency services and participates in the nursing care registry and general surgery registry. Mt. Sinai Hospital tracks patients’ lab tests, other medical tests and referral electronically between visits. Mt. Sinai Hospital uses the outpatient and inpatient safe surgery checklist. The overall rating for Mt. Sinai Hospital and Medical Center allows two stars out of five. The hospital is located 3.7 miles from the center of the Chicago city limits.

70% of patients who have been admitted or received treatment at Mt. Sinai Hospital reported that their nurses “always” communicated well. The Illinois average and the national average is above 80%. Mt. Sinai Hospital patients who reported that their doctors “always” communicated well stands at 77% in the survey. The Illinois and national averages are both 82%. 52% of Mt. Sinai’s patients reported they would definitely recommend the hospital. The Illinois average is 71% with the national average at 72%.

Many times, hospital patients are readmitted for different reasons or the same illness. In the case of Mt. Sinai, heart attack patients, there is no difference in the readmission rate than the national rate of 14.1%. This would apply to heart failure, pneumonia and stroke patients.

Mt. Sinai Hospital Medical Center’s website is: www.sinai.org.