Nov 4, 2016 | Community, Inside
Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System, with Push-Up winner Noriel Cordova.
Eighty-five members of the Mount Sinai community demonstrated their strength and stamina on Friday, September 23, by performing a total of 4,449 push-ups as part of the Second Annual Push-Up for Prostate Cancer Challenge. The event, hosted by the Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology, and held in the Guggenheim Pavilion, drew attention to Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and men’s health in general. (more…)
Nov 4, 2016 | Community, Inside
David L. Reich, MD, President of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens, left, and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai Health System, and board members of Satmar Bikur Cholim, with the new plaque honoring the late Rebbetzin Alta Feige Teitelbaum.
Leaders from the Mount Sinai Health System and volunteers from the Satmar Bikur Cholim kosher food distribution network recently gathered in the Guggenheim Pavilion to donate a plaque in honor of the late Rebbetzin Alta Feige Teitelbaum, the woman who started the program more than 60 years ago. Each day, Mrs. Teitelbaum, the wife of Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, the deceased founder of the Satmar Hassidic movement, would travel by subway to bring homemade kosher meals to patients at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Today, the organization provides meals to patients in hospitals throughout the New York Metropolitan area. The plaque honoring Mrs. Teitelbaum was unveiled at a special event organized by Satmar Bikur Cholim board member Susan Goldstein. It will hang in the kitchen on GP2W that serves as the organization’s central distribution point at The Mount Sinai Hospital and also provides hot kosher cereal and snacks for patients and visitors around the clock.
Nov 4, 2016 | Community, Inside
It was a volunteer experience like few others: being a physician selected to treat athletes at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics and the recently concluded Paralympics. “I was part of a team that evaluated acute and chronic musculoskeletal sports-related injuries,” says Gerardo Miranda-Comas, MD, Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (in photo). For Dr. Miranda-Comas, “The Paralympics, especially, was an important learning experience,” he says. “The atmosphere in the Paralympic village was unreal: it was a small city filled with elite athletes with disability and a vast variety of assistive devices for mobility that included prosthesis, crutches, wheelchairs, and other adaptive equipment.” But mostly, he says, “I felt an uplifting human spirit, where the person with a physical, mental, or visual impairment was applauded as loudly as the able-bodied individual just a few weeks before.”
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.
