Nov 4, 2016 | Community, Inside
Several hundred visitors stopped by a table hosted by Mount Sinai Doctors (MSD) Brooklyn Heights at the 42nd Annual Atlantic Antic™, Brooklyn’s oldest and largest street festival, held Sunday, September 25, along Atlantic Avenue. Festival workers gave out brochures, headbands, hand sanitizers, and balloons as MSD physicians engaged with patrons, sharing information about the two-floor practice that offers more than 35 specialties and urgent care. To learn more about the practice, visit www.mountsinai.org/bh.
Oct 24, 2016 | Community, Inside
Tania Leal, a patient, with John Feight, founder of the Foundation for Hospital Art, which created PaintFest America.
Patients and staff members were encouraged to channel their inner schoolchildren recently when volunteers from the nonprofit PaintFest America visited the Ruttenberg Treatment Center and the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center West. About 100 participants at each site filled in large paint-by-numbers canvases of roses, butterflies, and tree frogs that will be assembled into colorful murals for the sites’ walls. They painted in waiting rooms, a conference room, and even in a treatment infusion site, says Alison Snow, PhD, LCSW, Social Work Supervisor, Cancer Supportive Services, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Comprehensive Cancer Center West. “It’s something that’s fun, something that’s therapeutic and takes you away from your situation,” she says. The event was the last stop in a nationwide campaign by PaintFest America, which had vowed to visit cancer patients in each state for 50 straight days.
Oct 11, 2016 | Community, Inside
The Mount Sinai Heath Partners (MSHP) team, at 150 E. 42nd Street, assembled 16 bicycles recently for donation to the Children’s Aid Society. “Every year, MSHP engages in a team-building activity, and this year we looked for an opportunity to do something fun that also resulted in doing something charitable that promotes healthy living to support the communities we serve,” says Niyum Gandhi, Executive Vice President and Chief Population Health Officer, Mount Sinai Health System. In a team exercise before building the bikes, the participants worked together to answer trivia questions and create short videos. Several children supported by the Children’s Aid Society pitched in to build and decorate the bikes. Mount Sinai Health Partners is the population health team that fosters partnerships with health plans, physicians, employers, and community organizations to offer patients a more effective and efficient health care experience through its practice transformation, physician engagement, and care coordination efforts.
Sep 17, 2016 | Community, Inside
Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai, Garth Brooks and Band Visit to The Zone.
The country and pop music star Garth Brooks and his band members paid a special visit in July to the Child Life Zone at the Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai to talk with pediatric patients and their families, play games, create artwork, and take photos. “The Zone,” which provides a fun and friendly environment for therapeutic and educational play activities, opened 10 years ago in partnership with the Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Foundation and The Troy Aikman Foundation. Mr. Brooks and his band also appeared on a KidZone TV live broadcast, sharing stories and answering questions from pediatric patients in their hospital rooms. “The pure joy, energy, spirit, and warmth that Garth and the band brought to our children, teens, families, and staff was unparalleled,” says Diane Rode, Director, Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department, Kravis Children’s Hospital. “We are grateful every day for the power of ‘The Zone’ in helping us to humanize health care for our seriously ill children and their families.”
Sep 16, 2016 | Community, Inside
Neurosurgery patients at Mount Sinai Brooklyn can now receive in-depth evaluations, and local treatment in many cases, without having to travel into Manhattan. Ronit Gilad, MD, Chief of the Neurosurgical service at Mount Sinai Brooklyn, and Soriaya Motivala, MD, Co-Chief of the service, are leading the effort. Both are Assistant Professors of Neurosurgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and former Mount Sinai Neurosurgery residents. (more…)
Sep 16, 2016 | Community, Inside
A recent reception and ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the opening of Mount Sinai Doctors East 85th Street, the first multispecialty Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice on the Upper East Side. The office occupies five floors at 234 East 85th Street. (more…)
Several hundred visitors stopped by a table hosted by Mount Sinai Doctors (MSD) Brooklyn Heights at the 42nd Annual Atlantic Antic™, Brooklyn’s oldest and largest street festival, held Sunday, September 25, along Atlantic Avenue. Festival workers gave out brochures, headbands, hand sanitizers, and balloons as MSD physicians engaged with patrons, sharing information about the two-floor practice that offers more than 35 specialties and urgent care. To learn more about the practice, visit www.mountsinai.org/bh.
