The Mount Sinai Health System’s largest celebration of the year took place on Thursday, May 8, as more than 1,300 guests, including leadership, staff, and supporters from all seven Mount Sinai hospitals gathered to dine, dance, and mingle at the 29th annual Crystal Party.
Top prospects in this year’s National Football League draft stopped by Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai on Thursday, May 8, the first day of the draft. They delighted pediatric patients with smiles, NFL goody bags, and visits to their rooms and to The Zone, a therapeutic and educational play area.
Family medicine is a model of care that focuses on caring for patients of all ages throughout their lives, with an emphasis on understanding the whole person and the communities where they live. Today, family physicians are in high demand due to the increased awareness of the importance of primary care in realigning our health care system to support the triple aims of the Accountable Care Act (ACA); better health care for individuals, better health outcomes in the community, and lower health care costs.
More than one million Americans suffer from inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), primarily Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Affecting people of any age, race or gender, IBD causes chronic inflammation of all or part of the digestive tract. Crohn’s can strike in any part of the system, while ulcerative colitis is only found in the large bowel. Patients’ symptoms vary widely, but the most common are diarrhea, abdominal pain or both.
As with many other digestive disorders, patients with IBD are constantly on a quest to find the right treatment regimen to relieve the symptoms that interfere with their everyday lives. This search for effective IBD treatments was one of the many topics my colleagues and I discussed during Digestive Disease Week® (DDW), the world’s largest gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.
When colleagues nominated Joshua Lasseigne, BSN, RN, CHPN, a hospice and palliative care nurse at The Mount Sinai Hospital for a clinical excellence award, they summarized his exceptional skills in a nomination letter. “He truly helps patients and families through the darkest hours of their lives with a soft voice of hope and strong loving hugs,” they wrote. “He has a passion for nursing, a sense of optimism, and is an excellent role model and mentor.”
More than 300 employees and patients of the Mount Sinai Health System recently gathered in the Guggenheim Atrium to celebrate the 30,000th participant in the BioMe Biobank. The Biobank collects de-identified DNA and plasma used for a variety of research purposes from consenting patients.