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We Win the Gold Again by Dr. Jeremy Boal

Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | MSBI, Uncategorized

I am delighted to report that, once again, Mount Sinai Beth Israel has won a host of awards for stroke, heart attack, and heart failure care. Here are our awards for 2017:

Mission: Lifeline^® Gold Receiving Quality Achievement Award in STEMI
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and Target: Stroke Elite Plus
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines^®-Heart Failure Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award and Target: Heart Failure Honor Roll

What impresses me most is the exceptional interdisciplinary teamwork that leads to these outcomes.

In the community, Emergency Medical Technicians and Medics do an incredible job of providing initial assessment and care and getting patients to us quickly and safely.

All of the employees in the Emergency Department play a key role in triaging and treating patients while notifying the teams for our Cardiac Catheterization Lab, Cardiology, Telemetry, and others that patients are coming their way.

These units then provide quick and specialized care for these patients and help see them through to recovery frequently in partnership with our inpatient teams.

Suchin Lin, RN is a heart failure champion on 8 Silver, pictured with Nurse Manager, Ellen Brady, RN.

Many more on our 8 Silver team who take care of our heart failure patients.

Sharon Alexander-Pierre, RN and Fern Caruthes, RN are also heart failure champions on 8 Silver. Here is Sharon Alexander-Pierre, RN with Maria Vallejo, RN, and Ivane Jean Charles, RN.

Here is our team of pharmacists who focus on heart failure patients: Jessica Wong, Alissa Hui, April Castillo, Tram Thai.

A few members of our STEMI team: Theresa Reynes, RN; Kathleen Kearney, NP; Stephanie Freeo, RN; John Fox, MD; Mary Cronin, RN.

A few more members of our STEMI team: Ramesh Gowda, MD; Nezir Durakovic, CVT; Yumiko Kanei, MD; Glenn Tac-An, CVT; Lena Chang, Director of Nursing; Kathleen Kearney, NP; Hugo Rosero, MD; Rufus Nagbe, CVT.

Members of our stroke team: Arash Yousefi, MD; Christina Marsh, MD; Cristina Schreckinger, MD; Lili Velickovic Ostojic, MD; Nick Lemus Esquival, MD; Terrance Tian, MD; Front row: Nikita Urval, MD; Clover Youn, MD. Not pictured are some of our Stroke Care team members Irene Boniece, MD, Kristine Ortiz, MD, and Myrna Skiut, MD.

The care does not stop there. The patients leave the hospital with a plan that includes follow-up appointments and phone calls, and other guidelines so they can continue their recovery.

I’d also like to give thanks to Monique Bell who helps us track every patient who comes through our doors and ensures that the American Heart Association gets our data.

Through this journey, our patients remain safe, and this is because of the dedication of so many of you.

Monique Bell, coordinator for these programs

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Caring for Kids by Dr. Jeremy Boal

Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | MSBI

I’ve recently heard about so many of our MSBI employees who go above and beyond for children in our community.

Our Pediatrics Department at Union Square has a team of employees who truly love their jobs. Some of them have been at MSBI for more than 20 years and many commute from far away. Like so many here at MSBI, they’ve been through challenges and changes in the past few years, and they continue to provide exceptional service to their patients.

Kids love toys, but having toys in this waiting room is an infection control risk. James McIntosh, Patient Navigator, came up with a very creative solution. He created packets with kids’ activities that are unique to the practice, including a crossword with the physicians’ names. Kids and parents both love to pass the time doing these puzzles. The whole team has created a colorful space for kids, and I am thankful for their patience and creativity in dealing with our youngest patients.

Click on the photo below to scroll through more photos of our Pediatrics team.

Alison Snow, the social worker who leads our cancer support programs, worked with PS6 and a donor to create Kits for KIDS. These backpacks filled with activities, comforting toys, and encouraging artwork created by the PS6 second-graders are given to kids whose parents have cancer. I’m so thankful that she and her team are looking out not only for our patients, but our patients’ loved ones.

Our Emergency Department and Pediatric Observation Unit at Petrie also recently invited kindergarteners from PS33/Chelsea Prep to tour an ambulance and discuss safe habits like wearing a helmet on a bike. Their faces and voices definitely brightened up our campus.

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Happy Fourth of July!

Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | MSBI

Thanks to all of our staff who worked through the heat and the holiday this week. Mount Sinai Beth Israel Engineers worked hard to cool of our building and our patients. Below are a few photos of our staff celebrating and working through the heat.

The 10 Silver team cools off during the heatwave this week.

Anthony Lee, the charge nurse at OTP Clinic 1 brought cheer to his patients.

Members of the MSBI engineering team who did a great job keeping us cool.

Our Family is on Instagram by Dr. Jeremy Boal

Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | MSBI

Have you seen this MSBI-famous and Instagram-famous dog before?

That’s Louboutina (@Louboutinanyc), NYC’s famous hugging dog and her owner, Cesar Fernandez-Chavez, who is the language and interpreter services coordinator at MSBI. He is an energetic part of the MSBI family and he recently reached out when he was in need.

On Christmas Day, Cesar’s Chelsea apartment burned down and he lost everything. Our MSBI family banded together to help him find a temporary place to stay and his Instagram community raised funds to help him recover his life and belongings. Cesar took some time off to be with family and here’s what he says about returning to MSBI:

“There was a warm welcome when I went back on the floors. I was reminded of why I do what I do. This community is my family.”

Here is a photo of Louboutina with some of our physicians earlier this week:

If you are a fan of @Louboutinanyc on Instagram, I’ve got some exciting news for you! MSBI is now on Instagram featuring the stories of our employees.

I hope you will follow us at @MountSinai_BethIsrael to stay connected to the amazing work that happens at the Petrie campus, all of our ambulatory programs, our OTPs, and other parts of our network. You can click below to connect to Instagram.

@MountSinai_BethIsrael

Opening 8 Bernstein by Dr. Jeremy Boal

Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | MSBI

Earlier this month, we welcomed members of our behavioral health team to the newly-refreshed unit on 8 Bernstein. Based on extensive staff feedback and brainstorming, we had the opportunity to redesign the work areas and to cosmetically improve the entire unit. I want to thank our exceptional engineering department for the high standard of professionalism and expertise that they brought to this effort.

The ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 8 included music by music therapy research fellow Gabrielle Bouissou, MS, MT-BC, and a blessing by Rabbi Gabriel Kretzmer-Seed, Chaplain Resident. Psychiatry Chair Grant Mitchell, MD, and Nurse Manager Liz Metz, RN, also spoke. The ceremony concluded with the cutting of the ribbon by Sara Lopez-Rivera, RN, BC, Senior Nurse for inpatient behavioral health and MSBI employee for over 20 years.

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Reconnecting with MSBI Family by Dr. Jeremy Boal

Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | MSBI

Earlier this week we held service awards to honor our hundreds of employees who have been at MSBI for 20 years or more. In order to accommodate so many people, the events were held over two days in the Podell Conference Center and also in perioperative administration. And, God bless our amazing food and nutrition services and engineering teams who took such good care of us at the events!

There were so many highlights. One that stands out for me was the opportunity to present Lola Chlupsa with a service award for her 55 years of MSBI service and pride! The whole event felt like a giant family reunion as people who shared so much history connected and reconnected.

President Dr. Jeremy Boal, MD, and Lola Chlupsa who has worked at Mount Sinai Beth Israel for 55 years.

The kind of dedication you all have shown throughout your careers and your resilience through everything that has changed at MSBI over the years truly inspires me. I spoke with many of you at the event who remarked that you stayed here because MSBI is family. I certainly feel that and I want to thank you for welcoming so many of us, including me, into that family.

Click below to see many photos from our events this week.