Dec 4, 2015 | Inside
Mascot “Mr. Met” teamed up on a coloring project with patient Danny Carrillo.
On the day of the New York Mets’ first home game of the 2015 World Series, current and former Major League Baseball players, officials, and Mets mascots visited Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai and its interactive play area, The Child Life Zone, for an afternoon of fun-filled activities.
Pediatric patients from the Blau Center for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disease, and The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Mount Sinai Health System, made their own stuffed bears and worked on baseball-related arts-and-crafts projects. (more…)
Dec 4, 2015 | Inside
Signage for Mount Sinai West will be phased in over the coming months.
Mount Sinai Roosevelt is being renamed Mount Sinai West, an effort that reflects a long-term brand strategy to create a consistent naming convention within the Mount Sinai Health System.
“Many of the facilities in the Health System start with ‘Mount Sinai’ followed by a geographic or service-line identifier,” says Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai Health System. “As with the recent naming of Mount Sinai Brooklyn, we want anyone who has a health care need to know that there is a Mount Sinai facility in their neighborhood with equivalent quality, and to choose the facility that will best serve them. Mount Sinai West will continue to be the premier provider of health care services on the West Side of Manhattan.” No changes in current services, insurance acceptance, or employment are planned as a result of the renaming. (more…)
Dec 4, 2015 | Inside
Choreographer Diane Discepolo leads Kimberly Trenard, left, and Sabrina Bennett in a wheelchair dance.
The Wheelchair Abilities Dance Program, a recreational therapy program organized by the Klingenstein Clinical Center (KCC) of The Mount Sinai Hospital, recently featured a dance performance at the World Stroke Day Fair held on Thursday, October 29, in the Guggenheim Atrium. The unique program allows outpatient stroke survivors and people with multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injuries to gain independence through dance classes. (more…)
Nov 20, 2015 | Inside
Under a photograph of the late Irving J. Selikoff, MD, Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, and Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney display a Congressional Tribute to Mount Sinai for its leadership in environmental health.
Government officials, visiting physicians, and members of the Mount Sinai Health System recently gathered at a symposium honoring a seminal figure in environmental medicine—the late Irving J. Selikoff, MD—and to celebrate the renovation of Mount Sinai’s Selikoff Centers for Environmental Health. The Selikoff Centers treat thousands of patients each year for World Trade Center-related health issues and other work-related illnesses and injuries.
At the symposium, sponsored by Mount Sinai’s Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), a champion of workers’ health, presented Mount Sinai with a Congressional Tribute for being the “birthplace of environmental health and a leader in the United States in this research.” (more…)
Nov 20, 2015 | Inside, Research
Mark Lebwohl, MD
The results of a multicenter clinical trial led by Mount Sinai Health System researchers and published in The New England Journal of Medicine on October 1, 2015, demonstrate that brodalumab, an experimental biologic treatment for plaque psoriasis, achieved 100 percent reduction in psoriasis symptoms in twice as many patients as a second, commonly used treatment. (more…)
Nov 20, 2015 | Inside
David Muller, MD, left, and Jeremy Boal, MD
The Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors Program, the largest academic home-visit program in the nation, celebrated its twentieth anniversary on Thursday, October 22, with a festive event held in the Annenberg West Lobby of The Mount Sinai Hospital.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer issued an official proclamation announcing October 22 as “Visiting Doctors Appreciation Day,” while commending the program’s interdisciplinary teamwork and dedication to patients and their families. (more…)
