Goldwater earned his medical degree in 1901, was appointed superintendent of
Mount Sinai Hospital in 1903, and later its director in 1917. and during his term he was criticized for trying to enact public health measures that, during the backdrop of
World War I, were considered too closely related to German philosophies. Dr. Goldwater consulted on hospital administration and construction, and was instrumental in the founding of the hospital complex on
Roosevelt Island (known then as Welfare Island). The
Welfare Hospital for Chronic Disease was renamed
Goldwater Memorial Hospital shortly after he died in 1942. It merged with
Bird S. Coler Hospital in 1996 to form
Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital. The Goldwater Campus closed in 2010 to make way for the
Cornell Tech campus, and the remainder of the facility was renamed
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coler. ==Awards==