Milestones

1923

Mount Sinai Hospital registers with the Province of Ontario.

1940

Fundraising begins for the “new” Mount Sinai Hospital.

1942

Mount Sinai obtains a block of land at 550 University Avenue.

1945

SickKids agrees to accept Jewish interns and residents, a step towards Mount Sinai becoming a teaching hospital.

1953

Rose Torno’s auxiliary is assembled. Within a year, it has 3,244 members and 375 volunteers.

1953

The New Mount Sinai opens at 550 University Avenue with 12 departments and is a training centre for the University of Toronto’s Schools of Social Work, Pharmacy and Hospital Administration.

1955

The New Mount Sinai Hospital is accredited for one-year residency programs in Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Pathology, and Anesthesia, followed in 1956 by approval for clinical training for University of Toronto nursing students.

1962

Affiliation with the University of Toronto becomes official.

1973

Queen Elizabeth II visits Mount Sinai to commemorate its opening.

1979

The Mount Sinai Research Institute opens. It is renamed the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute in 1985 and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in 2013.

2013

What is now known as Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital opens as the first purpose-built hospital serving patients in need of rehabilitation or with complex, chronic conditions.

2015

Mount Sinai is the first hospital in Canada to achieve Magnet® recognition, a prestigious, international credential that measures nursing excellence and patient care.

2015

Mount Sinai and what was then known as Bridgepoint Active Healthcare amalgamate to become Sinai Health.

Major milestones of the past 100 years