Goldwater, Sigismund (Schulz) (1873-1942)

US hospital and public health administrator. Appointed superintendent of Mt Sinai Hospital in New York City (1903), he was one of the first medically trained hospital administrators in the USA. He established Mt Sinai's social service department in 1906 and introduced other reforms, and later he served as the hospital's director (1917-28). As commissioner of hospitals in New York City (1934-40), he completely reorganized and improved the municipal health system. He went on to direct the city's Blue Cross hospital insurance organization.

Goldwater was born in New York City. He studied sociology, economics, and political science, before earning an MD from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City (1901).