Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary Records 1945-1991

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Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary Records 1945-1991

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Mount Sinai Hospital opened in 1951 as a facility conceived and supported financially by Jewish donors in an effort to provide a place for Jewish physicians who were denied admitting privileges in other city hospitals. An auxiliary group primarily made up of women from the Jewish communities around the Twin Cities provided support through volunteering, publicity, and fundraising to aid the missions of the hospital.

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University of Minnesota Libraries. Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives. [umja]

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Mount Sinai Hospital Auxiliary (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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Mount Sinai Hospital, located at Chicago Avenue at 22nd St in Minneapolis, opened its doors in February 1951 with the aims to provide a place for Jewish physicians who had been denied admitting privileges at other city hospitals, making it the first private non-sectarian hospital in the community to accept members of minority races on its medical staff. The auxiliary was formed in 1950 to support the hospital. In their five-year review report, the Auxiliary illuminated their mission by saying: “...

Mount Sinai Hospital (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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After nearly five years of planning, Mount Sinai Hospital opened its doors in February 1951 under Chief of Staff Dr. Moses Barron. The seven-story, 197 bed facility was the most modern hospital in the community at the time. Its creation served two purposes: Jewish physicians who had been denied admitting privileges at other city hospitals could now practice medicine, and the founders garnered enormous civic prestige. It was the first private non-sectarian hospital in the community to accept memb...