Hospitals Share

What is it with different hospitals sharing the same name? Beth Israel and Beth Israel Deaconess is confusing enough, but I can't make heads or tails of Mount Sinai Medical Center and Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Both are large metropolitan hospitals with affiliated medical schools. Both have the same name. One is in New York, one is in Miami. They are apparently unaffiliated and try to pretend the other doesn't exist. Mount Sinai NY has 1,171 beds and 2,181 attending physicians. Mount Sinai Miami has 955 beds and more than 700 physicians.

P.S. There's also one in Toronto. 472 bed Mount Sinai Hospital.

Trounson handed $3B, told to build stem-cell therapies

Alan Trounson’s job is to figure out how to spend $3 billion.
Doesn’t sound that tough on its face, but there’s a pretty
big catch: He’s supposed to give the money to people who can find
stem-cell-based medical therapies within a decade.

Trounson, a researcher who was a pioneer of in-vitro fertilization, runs the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the shop set up after the state’s voters approved raising $3 billion in bonds to fund stem cell research. He’s profiled in today’s WSJ. from WSJ Health Blog