Total Care

Leah Hollander, RN, helps a Jewish patient eat a kosher meal. Access to kosher meals was a significant factor that highlighted the need for a Jewish hospital in Baltimore.

Sudhir Dutta, MD, director of gastroenterology and Ethan Dubin, MD, pose with a C-Arm fluoroscope that was located in Room 7, Radiology.

Sinai Hospital holds annual community health fairs, which include screenings for common chronic issues, such as high cholesterol, hypertension, sickle cell disease, and diabetes.

Sinai regularly holds events for free diganostic testing for a variety of conditions.

In March 1993 Jack Barton was the 1,000th patient to undergo open heart surgery at Sinai Hospital.

Dr. Sharma is pictured with a patient at Sinai's OB/GYN clinic. The clinic, part of Sinai's commitment to community medicine, allowed patients to see the same doctor free of charge.

Ellen Zamoiski, the Board Chair, presented a certificate to honor Dr. Herman Goldberg to commemorate his forty-two years of service to Sinai. In his honor, Sinai established the annual Herman K. Goldberg lectureship in ophthalmology.

Recognizing the important role of siblings in a new birth, Sinai introduced new visitation procedures for newborns' siblings in 1980.

Sinai announced plans for a Psychiatry Department in 1962.

Sinai planned to open a Psychiatric Inpatient Center and Cardiac Diagnostic Center in the fall and spring of 1977, respectively.

The Women's Auxiliary volunteer program has historically been well-organized and attentive to the details of its work.

The Women's Auxiliary appealed to women to donate portions of their time to volunteer work at the hospital.

Sinai established its Division of Otolargyngology in 1985 under the supervision of Dr. James Kelly.

Sinai helped to educate patients about emergency care and what to expect by publishing brochures.

Since 1961, Sinai has provided "total care" to Northwest Baltimore's indigent population through, not only clinical care, but also social and emotional treatment.

The Women's Auxiliary published a Sinai Hospital coloring book that explains to children what they can expect during their stay in the hospital.

Levindale was founded in 1890, developed a working relationship with Sinai Hospital in 1967, and officially united with Sinai in 1996 to form Sinai Health System.

Despite being open to people of all faiths, Sinai Hospital was established to fill a need for Jewish patients and doctors, and it is still guided by its Jewish identity.

In 1978 Sinai became the second hospital in Baltimore to provide hospice care for terminally-ill cancer patients in their own homes. The program used volunteers who were trained for 2 to 3 months.

Sinai requested donations of used hearing aids to recondition and donate to patients.

Aiming to get disabled workers back into the workforce, Sinai opened an industrial rehabilitation center at the Triangle Industrial Park.

The Sinai Sponge, the news publication of the Women's Auxiliary of Sinai Hospital, printed a thank-you letter from a child on its cover.

Although it is a Jewish Hospital, Sinai caters to the spiritual needs of all faiths as part of its commitment to "total care."