Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital

Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital
Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital in 2022
Geography
Location1184 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Coordinates40°47′24″N 73°57′14″W / 40.790093°N 73.953920°W / 40.790093; -73.953920
Organization
Care systemPrivate
TypeChildren's teaching hospital
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Services
Pediatric
Links
Websitewww.mountsinai.org/locations/kravis-childrens
ListsHospitals in New York State

Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital is a pediatric hospital located within the Mount Sinai Hospital campus in Manhattan, New York City. It is part of the Mount Sinai Health System and is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Kravis operates as a tertiary pediatric care center, providing inpatient, emergency, intensive care, neonatal and pediatric subspecialty services.[1]

The hospital includes a 15-bed pediatric intensive care unit and a 46-bed, Level IV neonatal intensive care unit.[2][3] Mount Sinai Hospital is designated a Regional Perinatal Center by the New York State Department of Health.[4] In the 2025–26 edition of the U.S. News & World Report Best Children's Hospitals rankings, Kravis was nationally ranked in pediatric diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, and nephrology.[5]

History

Pediatric medicine at Mount Sinai developed under the care of physician Abraham Jacobi, who established the hospital's first children's ward.[6] Mount Sinai dates the establishment of its Department of Pediatrics to 1878.[7] Jacobi became known as the father of American pediatrics and had previously been appointed the first professor of pediatrics at a United States medical school.[8]

In 1988, investor Henry R. Kravis donated $10 million to Mount Sinai to establish a children's hospital. The hospital was subsequently named for him.[9]

In 2015, Mount Sinai and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia formed an alliance that initially focused on pediatric oncology. The institutions said that cardiac care and fetal-medicine programs would follow.[10] The alliance expanded in 2017 with the establishment of a joint fetal-medicine program and plans for a children's heart center.[11]

During the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City in 2020, Kravis admitted some adult patients to increase hospital capacity. Pediatric physicians also worked in adult intensive-care units elsewhere at Mount Sinai.[12][13]

In November 2020, Dwayne Johnson and Microsoft donated custom Xbox Series X consoles to Kravis and 19 other children's hospitals in the United States.[14]

In April 2022, Mount Sinai opened a redesigned children's emergency department. The facility was nearly twice the size of the previous pediatric emergency space, had increased bed capacity, and was separated from the adult emergency department. It included a pediatric resuscitation area and a low-stimulation room for children with autism or other sensory needs.[15] The project was part of a five-phase, $70 million reconstruction of The Mount Sinai Hospital's emergency department.[16]

Other renovations in 2022 included a pediatric inpatient wing and a surgical admitting area.[17] Also in 2022, the Jack Martin Fund donated $3.5 million to establish a 2,400-square-foot child and adolescent imaging center at Kravis to support pediatric radiology, cancer care and research.[18]

In December 2025, Russell Wilson, then a quarterback for the New York Giants, and his wife, singer Ciara, announced a $3 million contribution to Kravis through their Why Not You Foundation. The funding was designated for new therapeutic play and creative arts spaces for pediatric patients, as well as upgrades to a common area known as "The Zone."[19]

Facilities and services

Kravis operates as a children's hospital within the larger Mount Sinai Hospital complex. Its pediatric intensive care unit treats patients from infancy through age 21 and works with a pediatric cardiac intensive care unit. The pediatric ICU has 15 beds and admits approximately 1,200 patients annually.[2]

The Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder Newborn Intensive Care Unit is a 46-bed Level IV Regional Perinatal Center. It treats approximately 1,000 newborns each year, including infants transferred from other hospitals in the region.[3][4]

The children's emergency department is connected to the hospital's inpatient and specialty services. The emergency department's 2022 redesign created separate facilities for pediatric patients and expanded its capacity for both lower-acuity and critical-care cases.[15]

Mount Sinai reported in 2024 that it had introduced a pediatric-specific transport team and ambulance program, a specialized pediatric vascular-access team, and a separate preoperative registration area for children.[20]

Among the hospital's child-life programs is KidZone TV, an interactive in-house television studio in which patients can participate in live programs from the studio or their hospital rooms.[21]

Clinical network and partnerships

In 2022, Kravis and Valley Health System announced a partnership to expand pediatric specialty services in northern New Jersey.[22] The organizations opened their first joint general and specialty pediatrics practice in Montvale, New Jersey, in October 2022. The practice combined general pediatrics with services including cardiology, allergy, developmental pediatrics, endocrinology, diabetes care and nutrition.[23]

A second Valley–Mount Sinai children's health practice opened in Wayne, New Jersey, in 2026. The practice initially offered pediatric primary care, with specialty services planned for the location.[24]

Recognition

In the 2025–26 U.S. News & World Report Best Children's Hospitals rankings, Kravis ranked No. 32 nationally in pediatric diabetes and endocrinology, No. 40 in gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, and tied for No. 50 in nephrology.[5]

The hospital and its physicians appeared in "Second Opinions," the second episode of the 2019 Netflix documentary series Diagnosis. The episode followed a seven-year-old girl with Rasmussen's encephalitis whose family sought an alternative to a proposed hemispherectomy.[25] She later underwent surgery to implant an electrical device intended to help control her seizures.[26]

In December 2019, then-LSU quarterback Joe Burrow visited Kravis the day after winning the Heisman Trophy, meeting with pediatric patients including a 13-year-old youth football player from New York City.[27]

Later that month, the hospital was featured in a MrBeast video titled "Giving 10,000 Presents To Kids For Christmas," in which donated Christmas presents were distributed to children at the hospital.[28]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Kravis Children's Hospital". Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
  2. 1 2 "Pediatric Intensive Care Unit NYC". Mount Sinai Health System. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Neonatal Intensive Care Unit NYC". Mount Sinai Health System. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  4. 1 2 "17 Regional Perinatal Centers in New York". New York State Department of Health. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
  5. 1 2 Methodology: U.S. News & World Report Best Children's Hospitals 2025-26 (PDF) (Report). RTI International. 2025. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Abraham Jacobi Papers". National Library of Medicine. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
  7. ↑ "Pediatric Scientific Highlights". Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  8. ↑ Ligon-Borden, B. Lee (July 2003). "Abraham Jacobi, MD: father of American pediatrics and advocate for children's health". Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. 14 (3): 245–249. doi:10.1016/S1045-1870(03)00055-4. PMID 12913838.
  9. ↑ "Investor Donates $10 Million to Mt. Sinai". The New York Times. January 27, 1988. ISSN 0362-4331.
  10. ↑ "CHOP partners with Mt. Sinai". WHYY. Associated Press. November 4, 2015. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  11. ↑ Weiss, Haley (June 2, 2017). "Here's Why CHOP Just Expanded Into New York City, Again". Philadelphia. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  12. ↑ Bannow, Tara (March 24, 2020). "As COVID-19 cases threaten capacity, children's hospitals resist taking adults". Modern Healthcare.
  13. ↑ Sternberg, Steve (April 10, 2020). "Coronavirus Is Causing a Reshuffling of Pediatric Care". U.S. News & World Report.
  14. ↑ Evans, Gavin (November 10, 2020). "Dwayne Johnson Surprises Children's Hospitals With Custom Xbox Series X Consoles". Complex. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
  15. 1 2 "Mount Sinai Hospital opens renovated children's Emergency Department". Hospital Management. April 12, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
  16. ↑ "Manhattan hospital opens new emergency room for kids". New York Post. April 9, 2022. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  17. ↑ "A Healthier Future for Every Child". Mount Sinai Health System. 2023. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  18. ↑ "Follow the Money: State of the Art Pediatric Oncology Imaging Center, Women's Health Biosensing Platform, More". Diagnostics World News. August 30, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
  19. ↑ "NY Giants quarterback Russell Wilson and wife donate $3 million to Mount Sinai Children's Hospital". ABC7 New York. December 28, 2025. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
  20. ↑ "A Healthier Future for Every Child". Mount Sinai Health System. 2024. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  21. ↑ Newman, Andy (June 29, 2018). "Live, From the Children's Ward". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  22. ↑ Perry, Jessica (June 1, 2022). "Valley Health, Mount Sinai collaborate to expand North Jersey children's services". NJBIZ. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  23. ↑ Furnas, Dawn (October 6, 2022). "Valley Medical, Mount Sinai open pediatrics practice (updated)". NJBIZ. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  24. ↑ Furnas, Dawn (February 12, 2026). "Valley Health expands services in northern New Jersey". NJBIZ. Retrieved July 24, 2026.
  25. ↑ Sanders, Lisa (October 11, 2018). "This Little Girl's Seizures Won't Stop. Her Parents Need Your Advice". The New York Times.
  26. ↑ Blake, Meredith (August 28, 2019). "Our health care system is broken – can crowdsourced medical shows fill the void?". The Spokesman-Review. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
  27. ↑ Auzenne, Josh (December 15, 2019). "Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow visits teen football player at NY children's hospital". WAFB. Retrieved August 16, 2026.
  28. ↑ MrBeast (December 23, 2019). Giving 10,000 Presents To Kids For Christmas. Retrieved August 16, 2026 – via YouTube.
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