MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL, THE OLDEST TEACHING ONE

Today, The Grangers and The Grandma have visited Mount Sinai Hospital because one of the members of the family has started to feel badly. During their staying, they have been preparing their Cambridge Exam. They have studied Had/Didn't have and the Reflexive Pronouns.

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Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States.

It is located in East Harlem in the New York City borough of Manhattan, on the eastern border of Central Park stretching along Madison and Fifth Avenues, between East 98th Street and East 103rd Street.

The entire Mount Sinai health system has over 7,400 physicians, as well as 3,815 beds, and delivers over 16,000 babies a year. In 2023, the hospital was ranked 23rd among over 2,300 hospitals in the world and the best hospital in New York state by Newsweek.

Adjacent to the hospital is the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital which provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the region.

At the time of the founding of the hospital in 1852, other hospitals in New York City discriminated against Jewish people both by not hiring them to treat patients, and by prohibiting them from being treated in the hospitals' wards.

Orthodox Jewish philanthropist Sampson Simson (1780-1857) founded the hospital to address the needs of New York City's rapidly growing Jewish immigrant community. 

It was the second Jewish hospital in the United States, after the Jewish Hospital, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, which was established in 1847.

The Jews' Hospital in the City of New York, as it was called until adopting its current name in 1866, was built on West 28th Street in Manhattan, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, on land donated by Simson. It opened two years before Simson's death. Four years later, it was unexpectedly filled to capacity with soldiers injured in the American Civil War.

The Jews' Hospital felt the effects of the escalating Civil War in other ways, as staff doctors and board members were called into service. Dr. Israel Moses served four years as lieutenant colonel in the 72nd New York Infantry Regiment; Joseph Seligman had to resign as a member of the board of directors, as he was increasingly called upon by President Lincoln for advice on the country's growing financial crisis.

The New York Draft Riots of 1863 also strained the hospital's resources, as it struggled to tend to the many wounded.

More and more, the Jews' Hospital was finding itself an integral part of the general community. In 1866, to reflect this new-found role, it changed its name.

In 1872, the hospital moved uptown to the east side of Lexington Avenue, between East 66th and East 67th Streets.

The hospital established a school of nursing in 1881. Created by Alma deLeon Hendricks and a small group of women, Mount Sinai Hospital Training School for Nurses was taken over by the hospital in 1895.

Mount Sinai has a number of hospital affiliates in the New York metropolitan area, including Brooklyn Hospital Center and an additional campus, Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens. The hospital is also affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which opened in September 1968.

In 2013, Mount Sinai Hospital joined with Continuum Health Partners in the creation of the Mount Sinai Health System. The system encompasses the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and seven hospital campuses in the New York metropolitan area, as well as a large, regional ambulatory footprint.

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 We are mission-driven in our pursuit
to change medicine; make lives better,
healthier, and longer;
and make care more accessible and equitable.
This is the Mount Sinai way.

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CSI NEW YORK: ACCIDENT OR LABOUR RISK MISTAKE

CSI New York searching in the river

Carolina Bean was a happy woman. She was in New York, where she arrived before Christmas, with her family. Although she hadn't accompanied them in the last trips around the city, she felt they were closer to her. She had explained to The Grandma that she wanted to stay some days visiting Central Park to take pictures and sceneries for her new graphic novel. The Grandma accepted the proposal because she knew how important her job was for Carol.

It seemed a normal day except for one fact: nobody had sent her a WhatsApp the last 48 hours and she hadn't seen them because she arrived to the hotel too late and she left it too early. Suddenly, the telephone rang:

-Hi! It's Carol Bean. Who's calling?

-Good morning, Mrs. Bean. I'm CSI Stella Bonasera from the New York Office. I would like to talk to you. It's about your family.

-My family! What happens? Are they ok?

-Don't worry, Mrs. Bean. They're fine. They are in the Mount Sinai Hospital waiting for your arrival to do the papers. Don't worry. I've phoned you because my partners, Mac Taylor and Don Flack, are going to take you in Central Park and carry you to the hospital.

-Wow! Ok. I'm astonished. I know where the hospital is. If you don't mind, I will come by public transport. I want to stay alone before visiting my family.

-Ok Mrs. Bean. See you later in the hospital then, but if you need something, please, don't doubt to phone us.

-Thanks, Detective Bonasera. See you later.

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Flack and Bonasera searching Nereyda Bean

CSI Stella Bonasera was one of the best members of the CSI New York Team. She was working in the case of the mysterious sinking in Liberty Island. They hadn't got enough answers to know what happened exactly in that boat and what the real cause of the tragedy was. 

They had revised all the protocols of labour risk prevention and the boat has passed all the legal controls. The technicians hadn't got any explanation about the origin of the accident. The boat has a great hole on the right side but they hadn't discovered what caused that hole.

Thanks to the work of Lt. Theo Kojak and the CSI Team, the most part of the victims had been rescued, except one. They had identified the name of the missing woman. She was Nereyda Bean, a young dark-skin woman with long black hair who wore air hostess uniform the last time that someone saw her. They were searching in the main places of the river paying attention to the flow.

Caroline Bean arriving to the Mount Sinai Hospital

If Nereyda Bean didn't appear in the next 48 hours they would call the FBI because the possibilities of finding her in another state, because of the force of the flow, were higher.

Carolina Bean had arrived to the Mount Sinai Hospital. She was ready to identified every member of her family and taking profit of the visit she was going to try to meet one of the best cardiologist of the world who works in this hospital: Doctor Valentí Fuster Carulla.

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It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing 

that assures the prosperous voyage. 

George William Curtis

ZERO SUM: SEARCHING THE BEANS IN THE HUDSON RIVER

The Statue of Liberty

The vision that Liberty offers to the migrant who arrives to the USA is a great metaphor about what was the meaning of this big country of countries some decades ago.

The rescue team continued its searching while Theo Kojak was looking at the sky and enjoying the vision of another spectacular amazing grace.

Amazing Grace? How sweet the sound. He thought in John Newton writing this beautiful anthem to thank God after suffering a sinking. He hoped the missing people had the same luck that Newton had. The loud voices of the members of the diving team alerted him. Another person had been found alive. Kojak was proud of himself. He was a great poker player and he understood life like a big and interesting poker game. He was still astonished with recent news of Eddie "Fast" Clark the guitarist of Motörhead who wrote the unforgettable song Ace of Spades.

Well, time to update the report.

January, 14. 07:18. Theo Kojak Report. Statue Cruises Sinking. NYC.

Last night, the rescue team continued the rescue tasks and they found alive four more people: a middle-aged dark skin woman with long brown hair; an adult white woman with long black hair with  equestrian clothes, a young woman with short black hair and light blue trousers and a young black haired man not shaved and with a red and yellow jumper.

The day has been a rush for Theo Kojak. In fact, he was always a heater. The rescue teams had found more survivors. He continued writing his report.

07:25 - Adult woman. White. Brown/red hair. Yellow coat and green shoes.

07:31 - Adult woman. white. Red haired. Long hair. Blue jeans and red t-shirt with a drawing of a pickup.

07:47 - Adult man. White. Black short hair. Yellow and black jersey (like a bee) and blue jeans.

08:10 - Adult man. White. Black short hair. Green belt and trousers and grey vest with a Saurus inscription. White helmet and black boots.

08:22 - Young woman. White. Long brown hair. Veterinary clothes.

08:55 - Old woman. White. Old-fashioned clothes. 

09:17 - Young woman. White. Long black hair. Croupier clothes.

Theo Kojak took his phone to call to the CSI NY Department. He needed people more specialist than him to continue the investigation. What happened in that boat? Why did it sink? CSI team was going to find the answers to this mystery. Meanwhile, his task continued. The first survivor told they were fifteen people and they have only found fourteen. He hoped s/he was a great shark.

The survivors were going to be moved to the Mount Sinai Hospital to be attended first, and interrogated later. They didn't know it but they were lucky people because not a lot of people survive to the force of the Hudson River flow. They played their cards and they seemed or great players or fortunate people. All the members of the family except one. Who?

 T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear

and Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed.

John Newton

THEO KOJAK: IRREVERENT METHODS TO FIND THE BEANS

Lt. Kojak arriving to the scene of the accident

Lieutenant Theofilides Kojak was driving to the accident scene. The radio was on. It was always the same cassette: Maria Callas. She was singing Ave Maria. He doesn't know how was possible that voice could enchanted him in that way, especially that song, because he wasn't a religious man. Perhaps because both of them have Greek ancestors, perhaps because both of them were born in New York, perhaps because both of them had had a hard childhood or perhaps because Maria Callas is the most beautiful voice ever in opera. He admired people who have strong beliefs because they're able to suffer the worst situations and go on thanks to their incredible faith.

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Lt. Kojak is a bald, dapper, New York City policeman, who was fond of Tootsie Roll Pops and of using the catchphrases, Who loves ya, baby? and Cootchie-coo! Kojak was stubborn and tenacious in his investigation of crimes and accidents and also displayed a dark, cynical wit, along with a tendency to bend the rules if it brought a criminal to justice.

When he arrived to the dock, his sergeant was talking with the paramedical services. They had attended three people: a young brown-head woman with athletic clothes, a young red-haired man who wore a football t-shirt and a middle-age man dressed in yellow and black. The sergeant explained to Lt. Kojak that the man had fallen slept after declaring his version of the accident. All the missing victims were members of the same family: The Beans. They sailed in a boat peacefully with their pet Rhini.

Last photo of The Beans taken by a tourist

The police hasn't got many evidences except a photo taken by a tourist from another boat in which appear the missing people swimming desperately before the Hudson River flow took them far away without any possibility of helping them.

A new hard day had come and this work seemed to be difficult and laborious. The rescue teams continued their tasks without success. He started to write his report. 

January, 13. 12:00. Theo Kojak Report. Statue Cruises Sinking. NYC.

-Survivors: 3 people (2 men-1 woman)

-Missing: 12 people (3 men-9 women)

-Three injured are going to be moved to the Mount Sinai Hospital.

The search continues...

Character is destiny.

 Heraclitus