Daisy BonillaSchool Safety Agent, New York Police Department
Age: 47
Involvement in 9/11 response efforts: Patrolling and securing the disaster area
Current employment status: In the process of retiring (more…)
The Mount Sinai Health System Division of Nephrology recently opened the Mount Sinai Kidney Center at East River Plaza, located at East 117th Street in East Harlem. (See photo). The 18,000-square-foot facility—which replaces The Mount Sinai Hospital’s dialysis clinic on East 94th Street—offers patients a complete range of services, including hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and home hemodialysis. It features a state-of-the-art water filtration system, an increased number of stations, and easy access to public transportation. In addition, space has been allocated for an interventional suite to perform radiological procedures on-site. (more…)
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai’s “Eye on Senior Health” program is offering free eye examinations for Brooklyn seniors at the United Senior Citizens Center of Sunset Park. Funded by a grant from the Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc., the program’s goal is to widen underserved seniors’ access to health care by delivering free, physician-led ophthalmic health outreach, screenings, and treatment referrals. Eleven screenings and 30 lectures are scheduled through the end of October.
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai recently launched a “Story Time” program for pediatric patients, an initiative designed to ease their anxiety in the hospital waiting room and to acquaint them with best-selling books that also happen to have a medical-friendly theme: The Berenstain Bears Go to the Doctor, for example, and Magenta Gets Glasses from the “Blue’s Clues” series. “Story Time” occurs at two locations: the main hospital and the nearby Ear Institute.
The Mount Sinai Hospital recently opened the Susan and Leonard Feinstein Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Center at 17 East 102nd Street, a facility created to provide comprehensive care in one location for pediatric and adult patients. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a general classification of conditions that cause inflammation of the intestines. An estimated 1.4 million people in the United States have Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. (more…)
More than 300 Mount Sinai Health System physicians, nurses, and staff laced up their sneakers to participate in the recent American Heart Association’s (AHA) three-mile Wall Street Run and Heart Walk. Team members raised $52,000 to help the AHA advance its cardiovascular research. They wore pink and black T-shirts designed by Jonathan P. Kyriacou, a Director of Hospital Operations, who won the “Best T-shirt” contest initiated by Lisa Allen, Administrative Director, Cardiology, Mount Sinai Beth Israel.