Mount Sinai is eying its next chapter in the tropics.
The Upper East Side-based health system signed a long-term agreement with the government of Grenada to advise the island nation on a new affiliated hospital. The project aims to expand access to complex medical services in Grenada and the East Caribbean.
Under the agreement, Mount Sinai will provide guidance and train staff on the design and clinical operations of a new 250-bed hospital being planned in Hope Vale on Grenada’s largest island. The hospital will serve as the anchor for an 84-acre medical village, known as Hope Vale Medical City.
In March, Grenada’s Finance Minister Dennis Cornwall told members of Parliament that the government allocated approximately $25 million from a fund opened for the project. The government is also seeking authority to borrow additional funds for the hospital.
Mount Sinai did not provide specifics on the terms of the agreement. The affiliation is the latest to be announced under Mount Sinai International, an arm of the health system focused on establishing overseas partnerships. The system operates education and training programs at hospitals and health care institutions around the world, including Spain, Hong Kong and Colombia.
The affiliation will bring Mount Sinai closer in proximity to St. George’s University, whose medical school is a major supplier of new doctors in New York. The university is affiliated with a number of New York medical institutions, including Montefiore, Northwell, Manhattan Psychiatric Center and multiple public hospitals in the city.
