Department Of Anesthesiology

About us

The Department provides anesthesiology services at three divisions of Montefiore - the Henry and Lucy Moses Division, the Weiler Division and the Montefiore North Each hospital has its own unique character, yet the Department insures a single standard of care by rotating our faculty through both sites. Each hospital has a Site Director, who facilitates the Department’s goals and maintains its standards. At the Moses Division, a new Children’s hospital opened in November 2001. Our facilities are located in the North Bronx, separated by a distance of four miles, and have a capacity of over 1,400 beds. The practice has approximately 50 faculty, encompasses over 30,000 anesthetics;  and runs 34 operating rooms, a delivery suite, and a consulting service. August 2008 We have added another hospital to our organization?the former Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center is now the North Division of Montefiore Medical Center. On July 23, Montefiore became a 1,491 bed academic medical center with more than 16,000 associates sharing a commitment to the delivery of high quality, compassionate care to patients and their families and the communities we serve. Anesthesiologists at Montefiore are charged with the perioperative medical management of patients who are to be, or who are rendered unconscious and insensible to pain and emotional stress during surgical, obstetrical and certain other medical procedures. The practice also includes the protection of life functions and vital organs (e.g. brain, heart, lungs, kidney, liver) under the stress of anesthetic, surgical and other medical procedures, and the management of problems in pain relief, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, pulmonary care, and critically ill patients in special care units. The Department of Anesthesiology provides state-of-the-art care for patients undergoing all types of surgical procedures. In this highly specialized discipline, faculty with particular expertise are available in areas such as cardio-anesthesia, neuro-anesthesia and organ transplantation.

The Department is guided by a three-part mission:

• to deliver state-of-the-art anesthesia care to serve the health care needs of the community;
• to provide first-rate education to medical students, residents and colleagues;
• to develop new knowledge pertinent to the specialty of anesthesiology and the needs of our community.