For more than a decade, Mount Sinai has been modernizing, enhancing, and transforming care to best serve our downtown Manhattan communities. Mount Sinai’s vision for care downtown is based on the idea that today care can be delivered to anyone, anywhere, at any time. That’s why we are creating an advanced, flexible, outpatient-based, community-connected model of care that is, most importantly, supported by Mount Sinai’s world-leading hospitals, ambulatory practices, and institutes and centers of excellence. 

To accomplish this, Mount Sinai has invested more than $600 million to upgrade and build state-of-the-art facilities below 34th Street. And we are just getting started. In creating a more modern, accessible health care platform, we have brought the unparalleled expertise and dedication of Mount Sinai’s medical teams closer to the residents of lower Manhattan.

Today, more than 600 Mount Sinai physicians practice downtown, offering over 30 medical and surgical specialties across 20 centers. High-quality, comprehensive care is available throughout lower Manhattan. From cancer care to urgent care, from behavioral health to specialized ambulatory surgeries: no matter the need, Mount Sinai can bring the care to you.

We are proudly changing how we deliver care to keep our patients healthy, out of the hospital, and in their community by providing an interconnected network of services, physicians, and care centers closer to where they live and work.

Update on Mount Sinai Beth Israel: As part of our ongoing transformation downtown, Mount Sinai plans to close the hospital on 16th Street. In July 2024, the New York State Department of Health (DOH) approved our closure plan. We are pleased that the court has recognized the authority of the DOH to oversee the approval of the closure plan for the hospital, and we are grateful for its decision to allow Mount Sinai to initiate the closure process for the 16th Street campus of MSBI.

We will close the 16th Street campus at 11:59 pm on Wednesday, March 26. This allows time to ramp down the facility and ensure a seamless and safe transfer of services, patients, and staff, and we will carefully adhere to DOH guidelines and regulations. We will continue to work closely with the DOH, local leaders, staff, patients, and the downtown community as we begin to transition care. The care and safety of our patients has been—and will always be—our top priority and we will do everything in our power to communicate effectively and consistently to ensure our patients remain in the best hands possible.

As part of the transition, we will be opening our new expanded urgent care center located two blocks south of the hospital on March 26. We want to express our gratitude to the incredible hospital staff for their dedication and commitment to our patients.

For more information, please visit our closure plan for 16th Street:

DOH Conditional Approval of the MSBI 16th Street Hospital Closure Plan

Click here for the revised Mount Sinai Beth Israel 16th street closure plan.

Note: Our closure plan for the 16th Street campus, which has been approved by the New York State Department of Health, has been the subject of extensive legal proceedings. On February 24, 2025, the New York State Supreme Court upheld the Department of Health’s approval of the closure plan. That decision by the New York State Supreme Court to permit the implementation of the Department of Health-approved closure plan has been appealed. While the appeal is pending, we will continue to provide Emergency Department services at the 16th Street location until closure, which remains scheduled for Wednesday, March 26th.

Community Health Needs Assessment

Implementation Strategy 2023

Community Needs Assessment 2023