Beth Israel Medical Center, one of the Manhattan campuses for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is a major 745-bed acute care teaching hospital in Manhattan with a 100-year history of community service. More than 350 house officers and 85 fellows receive training in all major specialties and subspecialties.
Emergency department patients represent the cultural and socioeconomic diversity of Beth Israel's metropolitan location. The Medical Center is a designated 911 receiving hospital and a psychiatric receiving hospital.
The department of emergency medicine provides emergency care to more than 110,000 adult patients each year, over 12,000 of whom are critically ill and arrive by ambulance. Twenty-five percent of the emergency department patients are admitted to the hospital, indicating a remarkably high acuity rate.
