Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
The Mount Sinai Hospital is the first in New York City to open an observation unit for Emergency Department (ED) patients who do not meet criteria for inpatient admission, yet require further short-term evaluation and treatment before they can be discharged safely. The 20-bed Rapid Evaluation and Treatment Unit (RETU) is adjacent to the ED and is staffed by physicians, physician assistants, nurse managers, nurses, case managers, and social workers who work as a team to better assess and coordinate patient care. Similar units will be rolled out at hospitals throughout the Mount Sinai Health System in the coming months.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
As a college sophomore, Joanna Adler was unexpectedly diagnosed with a rare illness called Wilson’s disease, and underwent an urgent liver transplant at The Mount Sinai Hospital. Today, 16 years later, Ms. Adler remains close to her physician, Leona Kim-Schluger, MD, the Sidney J. Zweig Professor of Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Associate Director of the Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute. Ms. Adler is also a strong supporter of Mount Sinai, which she credits for saving her life.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | School, Your Health
On January 12th, 2010 when a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, Ernest Barthelemy was half way through his second of medical school at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The earthquake that devastated Haiti hit Ernest in every way, from the personal casualties within his family to its spiritual implications for his cultural identity to an eventual redefinition of his professional medical career.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
Benefactors Patty and Jay Baker recently donated $10 million to establish The Patty and Jay Baker National Palliative Care Center at Mount Sinai to support public policy, education, training, research, and national outreach to improve the quality of care for seriously ill Americans and their families.
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Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
Patients at the Mount Sinai Health System and at leading medical centers around the world have benefitted from therapeutic treatments that are tested during clinical trials.
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Mar 31, 2014 | Your Health
Sarcoidosis is a multisystem, inflammatory disease, which can involve all organ systems to a varying degree and extent. Upon diagnosis or afterward, patients are commonly overwhelmed by their disease and frequently ask questions that include: How did I get this disease; Will it spread to all my organs; Will it kill me; which of my other ailments are related to sarcoidosis and do I need treatment for them; Can I expect to live a normal life; Should I be on a special diet; Will my kids inherit sarcoidosis?
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The Mount Sinai Hospital is the first in New York City to open an observation unit for Emergency Department (ED) patients who do not meet criteria for inpatient admission, yet require further short-term evaluation and treatment before they can be discharged safely. The 20-bed Rapid Evaluation and Treatment Unit (RETU) is adjacent to the ED and is staffed by physicians, physician assistants, nurse managers, nurses, case managers, and social workers who work as a team to better assess and coordinate patient care. Similar units will be rolled out at hospitals throughout the Mount Sinai Health System in the coming months.
