Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
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.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
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…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Cardiology, Inside, Your Health
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.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
More than 50 Mount Sinai Health System employees and their families and friends, led by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai students Kyle Riley and Dudley Charles as parade co-captains, marched together during the 46th Annual New York City Pride Parade on Sunday, June 28. The Mount Sinai Health System walkers entered Fifth Avenue early in the parade and marched approximately three miles downtown to Washington Square and Christopher Street. A Mount Sinai St. Luke’s ambulance decorated with rainbow flags followed the group. Staff and volunteers from Mount Sinai’s Institute for Advanced Medicine also hosted booths at PrideFest, a Pride Day street festival in the West Village, distributing information about the many health services the Health System provides to the LGBT community.
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
Singer and musician Johannes Schwaiger—who lost his voice after radiation treatment for throat and neck cancer but regained it following treatment at Mount Sinai Beth Israel—entertained more than 200 guests at Mount Sinai’s annual National Cancer Survivors Day® luncheon, held recently at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Phillips Ambulatory Care Center. Among the attendees were cancer survivors, their families and friends, and Mount Sinai faculty and staff. Charles L. Shapiro, MD, Professor of Medicine, Co-Director of the Dubin Breast Center at The Mount Sinai Hospital, Director of Translational Breast Cancer Research, and Director of Cancer Survivorship, Tisch Cancer Institute, delivered the keynote address. “More cancer survivors will experience cures, mainly due to screening, early detection, and improved treatments and supportive care,” Dr. Shapiro says. “Sometimes treatment causes long-term side effects that can affect survivors’ quality of life, so we need to prevent or treat them effectively.”
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
In 2011, Mount Sinai embarked on a strategy—across many digital and traditional channels—to ensure a consistent message of growth, strength, and excellence.
It began with the first steps to develop a new logo, and with it, a mission, vision, and values to propel the institution forward as health care in the United States took a revolutionary turn. (more…)
