Mount Sinai Brings Transplant Team and Decades of Experience to Long Island
Sander S. Florman, MD, Director of The Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai
The Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute at Mount Sinai is now offering complete transplant evaluation services at the Mount Sinai Doctors Long Island Five Towns practice in Hewlett, N.Y. At this new satellite practice, adult patients who need a liver or kidney transplant can be seen by an entire multidisciplinary transplant team from Mount Sinai. All aspects of transplant care except for the actual operation can now take place locally, providing convenience for patients as well as confidence that they are being cared for by a highly experienced team of experts.
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About 2 million people in New York could lose coverage if funding to expand Medicaid eligibility ended, David Reich, MD, President and Chief Operating Officer of The Mount Sinai Hospital, tells The Lancet. If that happens, Reich said “we lose our ability to use the new and innovative programs” the ACA facilitates. The ACA has started to move the health-care delivery system “toward one that’s preventive in nature rather than reactive and disease-based,” he said. Provided in outpatient settings, preventive care saves money and keeps patients healthy.
An early-stage clinical trial has found that, compared to a placebo, a novel medication significantly reduces potentially life-threatening episodes of swelling of the airway as well as the hands, feet, and abdomen of patients affected by a rare genetic disorder. The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
After giving birth to her first child, Melinda Constantine was diagnosed with a rare type of heart failure that can happen during pregnancy or right after delivery. Under the care of Anelechi Anyanwu, MD, Surgical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support and Heart Transplant Program, and Sean P. Pinney, MD, Director of Heart Failure and Transplantation at Mount Sinai Heart, Melinda now has a mechanical pump and has been able to return to normal life.
Ram Roth, MD, a board certified anesthesiologist at Mount Sinai Queens, generally posts about anesthesiology, anesthesiologists’ advice to patients, and the surgical services offered at Mount Sinai Queens. This time, Dr. Roth is reporting from Liberia, the West African nation where a group from Mount Sinai recently provided much-needed medical care, surgical care, and education.
In a Q&A with Cardiovascular Business, Donna Mendes, MD, a vascular surgeon at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West, talks about diversity at Mount Sinai, how the industry has become more diverse over the years, and why all providers should make it a priority.