Celebrating Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month: Why Diversity Matters in Health Care
Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, also known as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, is observed in May in the United States. It celebrates the culture and historical contributions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI)...
Advancing Heath Equity With Data: Collaborating With Stakeholders at Mount Sinai Queens
At Mount Sinai, a key pillar in advancing health equity focuses on the collection and use of self-reported patient demographic data to identify gaps in care. The Health Equity Data Assessment (HEDA) team is engaging key stakeholders across the Health System and...
Mount Sinai’s Million Dollar Circle Recognition Honors Underrepresented Vendors
Mount Sinai recently held its inaugural Million Dollar Circle Recognition event—celebrating 28 underrepresented vendors that each provided more than $1 million in products and services to the Health System in 2022 and 2023. More than $70 million was spent with the...
New Opera on a Gender-Affirmation Pioneer Is Authored by Mount Sinai Neuroradiologist
“It’s a love story,” says Aryeh Lev Stollman, MD, a neuroradiologist at Mount Sinai, and the librettist for a new opera, Lili Elbe, which tells the story of one of the earliest recipients of gender-affirming surgery, in 1930. The opera, commissioned by the Theater St....
Preparing Physicians to Treat the LGBTQI+ Community With Dignity as It Ages
The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center is starting an LGBTQ+ service for older adults, and inspired by the leading work that the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai is doing in LGBTQ+ geriatric medicine, it has partnered with Mount Sinai to train one of its geriatrics resident.
Two Employee Resource Groups, Mount Sinai Interfaith and Islamic Community at Mount Sinai, Hold a Silent Vigil
The Mount Sinai Interfaith and the Islamic Community at Mount Sinai employee resource groups gathered to hold space for collective grief and to express their shared humanity, love, respect, and understanding on Wednesday, January 10. About 90 Mount Sinai employees,...
GOALS Employee Resource Group Explores Environmental Racism and How It May Appear In a Work Atmosphere
The Growth in Operations, Administration, and Leadership Society (GOALS) employee resource group hosted its quarterly meeting, bringing together about 20 Black men from across the Mount Sinai community to discuss environmental and systematic racism and how it affects...
Unsung Security Officers Participate in Resilience Educational Program: For Some, a First Introduction to Helpful Strategies
Hospital security officers are often our first human contact when we walk into a hospital. While they share the job description of “front-line worker,” along with doctors and nurses, they are both highly visible and yet “unsung” for all they do. As the pandemic swept...
Institute for Health Equity Research Holds Inaugural Symposium to Exchange Ideas and Propel Research
As part of its mission to elevate the science of heath equity, the Institute for Health Equity Research (IHER) held its inaugural symposium, one of the first major milestones in a new partnership between IHER and Royalty Pharma, established in 2022, to build an...
A “Profound Honor”: Mount Sinai Partnership Expands Health Care to Thousands in Guyana
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is seizing “an amazing opportunity” in global public health in a three-year initiative that is expanding health care to Guyana’s more than 800,000 citizens. Launched in 2022, the initiative is a partnership among Mount...