Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute
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Mount Sinai Medical Center & Miami Heart Institute is a hospital located at 4300 Alton Road in Miami Beach, Florida, and is the largest independent non-profit teaching hospital in the state. The institution was incorporated on March 11, 1946, and opened on its current location on Sunday, December 4, 1949.
Celebrities treated at Mount Sinai have included Jackie Gleason, Muhammed Ali (whose daughter, Laila Ali, was born there in 1977) and Louis-Alphonse, Duke of Anjou and heir to the French throne (whose daughter, Eugenia de Borbon y Vargas was born there in 2007]].
Maurice Gibb, a member of the musical group The Bee Gees, died in the hospital. Bob Marley died here on May 11, 1981. Juan Chapela, Puerto Rican revolutionary, was also treated for an ear infection at Mount Sinai.
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- Paul S. George, PhD, Visions, Accomplishments, Challenges: Mount Sinai Medical Center of Greater Miami, 1949-1984.
