We went to Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Union Square, The Blavatnik Family-Chelsea Medical Center of Mount Sinai, Mount Sinai Doctors Stuvesant Town, Water Street and other locations to learn about you. Here’s what we found out:
I look up to so many of our employees, and in March we honored some of our very best with the Heart Awards. The annual Heart Awards honor employees with five or more years of service who continuously focus on keeping our patients safe, providing the best patient experience, and making MSBI the hospital of choice for patients, doctors, and employees.
I hope you will watch this one-minute video that highlights the many reasons I am thankful to work with these wonderful people.
Mount Sinai Doctors at Stuyvesant Town celebrated “Red Nose Day” on Thursday, May 24. Red Nose Day raises money to end child poverty.
On May 17, more than 40 Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Mount Sinai Union Square employees participated in the Wall Street Run & Heart Walk. The “MSBI MSUS Amazing Hearts and Minds” raised over $13,000 for the American Heart Association who conduct research and save lives from the country’s number one and number five killers–heart disease and stroke.
I want to be sure you know about programs at Mount Sinai Beth Israel that can help support you when the stress from the work you do impacts your emotional well-being. We’ve all been there. The Employee Assistance Program is a great example of a program that you can lean on in a time of need.
Another program I want to make sure you know about is ICARE. We’ve created the ICARE Team to help support us when we experience a stressful incident in patient care or otherwise. This type of peer-to-peer support has been shown to be particularly effective in helping those who have become known as the “second victims” in medical errors–the health care providers themselves. But this new service isn’t only here to support us in the context of medical errors. There are all sorts of stressors that we encounter in our work. To connect with a colleague on our ICARE team, call 212-420-4343 and ask for the ICARE team. This program offers peer-to-peer crisis support and stress management from employees that many of you have told us you regularly lean on. These team members are eager to confidentially listen and support you. And they can help navigate you to even more support should you want it and/or need it.
Some of our colleagues who recently trained to be on the ICARE support team. Back row, left to right: Ruth Gabay; Andrea Abraham, RN ; Lyse Aybar; Thida Aye, MD, MPH, FACP; Margaret Morales, MA, RN, ACNS, NEA-BC; Lena Chang, RN; Alicia Tennenbaum, LCSW; Lydia Lopez, RN; Seated: Laura O’Brien, RN-CCRN; Wendy Egan, LCSW.
Along with 1199-SEIU and other sponsors, we are hosting a health fair on Thursday, May 31, 11:00 am to 4:00 pm at Podell Auditorium. There, you’ll be able to get free confidential health screenings and information on the many wellness programs we have at MSBI, including one of my favorites: the new MSBI walking routes! You can look for the signs around our Petrie campus. Or, stop by the 2 Dazian Rotunda to pick up a copy of the routes inside of Petrie and around Stuyvesant Square park. I hope to see you at the fair.
And now for something completely different…and completely awesome!
In April, the MSBI Emergency Medicine Residency Team won the national Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) Quiz Show Competition held on April 22, 2018 at the CORD Academic Assembly in San Antonio, Texas. The quiz show takes medical knowledge seriously and games not-so-seriously. Congratulations to our team for coming out on top in this national competition.
Best.
Uniforms.
Ever.
Some of our Emergency Medicine residents from left to right: Anthony Sielicki, MD, Avir Mitra, MD, Jeffrey Nahn, MD, and Nayan Patel, MD.
Also in the category of awesome… Our ED residents are in the hands of the uniquely talented, Dr. Saadia Akhtar. She recently won two prestigious awards recognizing educational leaders who demonstrate innovation and change in emergency medicine education, and evidence of mentoring others and the love of teaching, among other qualities. In April she received the “Michael P. Wainscott Program Director Award” and in March, the “ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award,” which was only given to nine Program Directors from all specialties nationwide. Incredible!
Saadia Akhtar, MD, with her mother, sister, nephew and members of the MSBI Emergency Medicine family.
The Mount Sinai – National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute opened its second Manhattan location on Monday, April 16, in Union Square, where specialists now treat asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary hypertension, lung cancer, interstitial lung disease, and chronic lung disorders. After entering into a collaborative agreement in 2015, the Mount Sinai Health System and National Jewish Health, a leading respiratory hospital based in Denver, opened its first Institute on The Mount Sinai Hospital campus. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Mount Sinai Union Square, leaders from both health systems noted the Institute’s high patient volume and commitment to personalized care.
From left: Richard J. Martin, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine, National Jewish Health; Barbara Murphy, MD, Chair, Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System; Charles A. Powell, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai – National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute; David J. Steiger, MD, Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel and Mount Sinai West; 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; and Michael Salem, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Jewish Health.