Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Celebrates 150 Years

BALTIMORE (WJZ) --  Sinai Hospital is celebrating its 150th year, making it one of Baltimore's oldest hospitals.

Opening its doors just a year after the Civil War, Sinai has provided medical care to generations of Baltimoreans, Ron Matz reports.

"I can't tell you how many people have said to me 'I was born at Sinai', my mom was born at Sinai, my grandmother was born at Sinai' said Amy Perry, the hospital's president and the executive vice president of LifeBridge Health. "So it's generations of people that we've provided healthcare to them and their family over a lifetime"

Sinai has always had a commitment to not only serving the people of the community, but also training the medical minds of tomorrow to keep the Sinai legacy going strong.

In 1907, the hospital's nursing school was opened. In 1928, it took its first residents. That's more than 100 years of providing medical training, in addition to treatment.

"We invented the cardiac defibrillator--a lot of  people have those and they're walking around right now living a more robust life," said Perry.

Sinai trains about 140 residents every year. It's become an anchor for the Park Heights community.

Sinai's Chief of Orthopedics, Dr. Jerome Reichmister, has been serving Sinai for the last 50 years and couldn't be prouder of all strides Sinai has made over the years.

"We are very vibrant," he says."We are involved in our community, we have philanthropic support from the community and we have a lot of people who believe in our core mission."

When Sinai first open it was located on Monument Street in East Baltimore. The hospital moved to its West Belvedere Avenue location in 1959.

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