Sinai Hospital is an American private hospital based in Baltimore, Maryland, that was founded in 1866 as the Hebrew Hospital and Asylum. It was originally located in East Baltimore, but is now located in Northwest Baltimore's Levindale / West Belvedere.
It is now a Jewish-sponsored teaching hospital that provides care for patients in the greater Baltimore City, Baltimore County and surrounding communities.
Since 1998, Sinai Hospital has been a part of the LifeBridge Health system,[3] which also runs Northwest Hospital in Randallstown, Carroll Hospital in Westminster, Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Nursing Home (which is across the street from Sinai), Grace Medical Center in West Baltimore City, Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics, several medical office buildings in the Baltimore area, and a health and fitness club called LifeBridge Health & Fitness, located in Pikesville, Maryland.
Sinai Hospital originally operated using a 99-year lease on land, and has been systematically buying land in and around its campus to expand.[7] A $50 million expansion of its emergency room broke ground in 2022.[8] A new 125,000-square-foot cancer center was announced in 2022,[9] which received a $5 million gift from Mandy and Dennis Weinman in 2023.[10]
Specialties
The specialty areas at Sinai include:
Alvin & Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute
Bariatric Surgery Program at Sinai
Sandra and Malcolm Berman Brain & Spine Institute
Adult Hydrocephalus Center
Spine Center at Sinai
Stroke Center at Sinai
CyberKnife® Center
ER-7 Emergency Center
Cardiovascular Institute
Herman and Walter Samuelson Children's Hospital at Sinai
Krieger Eye Institute
Rehabilitation Center
Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics
International Center for Limb Lengthening
Center for Joint Preservation and Replacement
Sinai Center for Thrombosis Research
Sleep Center at Sinai
Famous Patients and Patient Programs
Former Baltimore Orioles star pitcher Dave McNally was admitted to the hospital in late June 1975 with a case of chronic hiccups that had plagued him for nine days.[11]
In the early 1990s, the hospital became a community focus for Soviet Jewish immigrants arriving in Baltimore.[12]
Former Baltimore Orioles outfielder Paul Blair died at this hospital in late December 2013 after collapsing at a bowling alley in nearby Pikesville, Maryland.
The hospital celebrates an annual Baltimore Batman Day for pediatric cancer patients.[13]
Advanced Medical Training
Sinai Hospital operates a Level II Trauma Center, one of only three in Baltimore itself.[14] As of January 2025, it is home to 7 ACGME-accredited residency programs for training medical residents, and hosts almost 500 medical students annually. As of 2025, more than 160 residents train at the hospital every year, up from about 140 a decade earlier.[15]
Since in May 2023, Sinai Hospital has functioned as a Regional Medical Campus for medical students from George Washington University, with students applying to conduct most third- and fourth-year rotations at the hospital. Beginning in the Fall of 2024, George Washington University's School of Medicine and Health Sciences has specifically matriculated 30 students in each entering class who will complete their third- and fourth-year rotations at Sinai Hospital.[16] These students each receive a scholarship to underwrite part of their studies in Baltimore, thanks to a $10 million donation by Ellen Wasserman.[17] Wasserman is a long-time major donor to the hospital, having given it more than $24 million over a 36-year period.[18]
Notable Faculty
In 2025, Dr. Marcie Feinman, a general surgeon at the hospital, was awarded the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) .[19]
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