The gallbladder concentrates and stores bile as a pear-shaped sac which it can release to help digestion after a fatty meal.
Mount Sinai Roosevelt hospital is located at 1000 Tenth Avenue in New York City. The hospital has 505 beds located in a 13 story building built in 1990. The hospital itself was founded in 1871 and is a tertiary service which is community-oriented. It places an emphasis on primary care through partnerships with other medical practices. The emergency room of Roosevelt serves as a medical emergency center for New York’s Midtown and West Side of Manhattan. The hospital is equipped with state-of-art medical equipment, provides surgical services and offers private deluxe apartments to patients.
Mount Sinai St. Luke’s hospital is located at 1111 Amsterdam Avenue in New York City. The hospital is the principal healthcare provider for New York’s West Harlem and Morningside Heights. St Luke’s is most famous for being home of the Al-Sabah Arrhythmia Institute, which is one of the world’s finest medical centers, specializing in heart conditions. Besides the trauma center and the Al-Sabah Arrhythmia Institute, the hospital also provides services in a number of different specializations, providing primary and community health care, as well as specialty care.
The hospitals' architecture and technology are featured in the following collection of photos.
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Aerial Shot of Roosevelt Hospital looking southwest at the Manhattan skyline- Although the hospital is 14 stories high, it is appears much smaller in comparison to the midtown skyscrapers.
The Babcock entrance of St. Luke's Hospital is seen from the southeast corner of the Columbia Undergraduate campus. The picture was taken at the corner of 114th Street and Amsterdam avenue
The light symbolizes the exchange of ideas at the conference table in the surgery department in Muhlenberg building at St. Luke's Hospital
"Well, since there is so much possibility of closeness in heaven, wouldn't it be well to become a little acquainted on earth?"- Rev. William Augustus Muhlenberg, D.D.
Fish-Eye view looking across 10th Avenue towards the western face of Roosevelt Hospital
View of the entrance of the Roosevelt emergency ambulence bay seen from the sidewalk of the Brodksy building
Tulips are in full bloom in late April in the garden of Roosevelt Hospital located at 59th Street right off of 10th Avenue.
Steps of Roosevelt Hospital viewed on a warm summer evening
A modern facade of the Babcock building complements the historic structure of the 1846 building built by Reverend Muhlenberg.
Night view looking northeast over St. Luke's Hospital- Horziontal lines of light in the sky are planes landing at La Guardia airport distorted by the long shutter delay
Looking down at the corner of 114th and Amsterdam avenue, the patterns of yellow light on the streets below are formed by moving taxis on this warm summer night.
The filaments used for lighting this portion of the hospital and cars passing by create an interesting pattern of red, white and blue.