Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital

1184 5th Avenue | also 1440 Madison Avenue | East Harlem | built 1963

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1988
Henry Kravis donates $10 million, and the children's hospital takes his name
Investor Henry R. Kravis gives Mount Sinai $10 million in 1988 to establish a children's hospital, which is named for him. Pediatrics at Mount Sinai goes back further: physician Abraham Jacobi set up the hospital's first children's ward, and Mount Sinai dates its pediatrics department to 1878.
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2020
Pediatric physicians work in adult intensive-care units during the pandemic's first wave
During the first wave of COVID-19 in New York City in 2020, Kravis admits some adult patients to add capacity. Its pediatric physicians also work in adult intensive-care units elsewhere in the Mount Sinai system.
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2022
April
A redesigned pediatric emergency department opens at nearly twice its former size
Mount Sinai opens a redesigned children's emergency department in April 2022, separate from the adult emergency department. It adds more beds, a pediatric resuscitation area and a low-stimulation room for children with autism or other sensory needs. The work is part of a five-phase, $70 million rebuild of the hospital's emergency department.
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