Mount Sinai Sanatorium Hospital

The Mount Sinai Sanatorium (Hospital) opened in 1909 near Ste-Agathe-des-Monts (about 100 km from Montreal), for Jewish patients, as a nine-bed tuberculosis sanatorium. The Sanatorium's location provided patients fresh air at a relatively high altitude, both features believed to be helpful in the treatment of tuberculosis at the time. In 1930, the sanatorium moved to a specially constructed building capable of accommodating over 90 patients. After the introduction of antibiotic therapy for tuberculosis in the 1950s, the hospital’s mission changed to include care of patients with chronic pulmonary disease of other sorts. In 1990, it moved to Côte St-Luc in Montreal where it is concerned primarily with long-term and palliative care.