The Mount Sinai Health System has expanded its presence in Upper Manhattan with the opening of the new Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center, a state-of-the-art outpatient medical facility that brings the highest quality health care to the community. The 12-story, 85,000-square-foot medical building, completed at a cost of $80 million, will be home to primary care and specialty practices for adults and children, and will also offer dentistry, mental health services, imaging, and a specialty pharmacy.
A multispecialty practice, scheduled to open on the first floor in 2024, will be staffed by board certified physicians offering primary care and a wide range of specialties, including Cardiology (heart), Gastroenterology (digestive diseases), Nephrology (kidneys), Ophthalmology (eye care), Orthopedics (bones), and Podiatry (feet), initially. Mental health services for adults and children will also be available when the behavioral health clinics, currently located at Mount Sinai Morningside, move to the new building.
The new Health Center will also be home to Mount Sinai’s Institute for Advanced Medicine (IAM), a service dedicated to providing comprehensive, compassionate care to underserved communities and patients with specialized needs.
The first office to open in the new space is IAM’s Jack Martin and Morningside Clinics, which are moving from The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside. The new location will centralize the two practices as the new Jack Martin Fund Center. The Center provides primary and specialized care to patients who are HIV positive and those at high risk for developing HIV or other sexually transmitted infections. In addition to maintaining the same services and care team, the new, state-of-the-art center will provide patients with direct access to one health care destination that offers services including acupuncture; dentistry; dermatology; gynecology; HIV care; massage therapy; mental health; nephrology; neurology (nervous system, including brain); nutrition; pain management; pediatrics; and care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, and intersex people.
A radiology suite offering X-ray and ultrasound imaging, as well as bone density testing, will open in 2024. A new specialty pharmacy, also slated to open in 2024, will be available to patients as well as members of the surrounding community.
Mount Sinai-Harlem Health will also be home to the Diversity Innovation Hub, a partnership through Mount Sinai’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Founded in 2019, the unique community-driven incubator strives to eliminate disparities in health care and to provide economic opportunity to the community through technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
“Our goal for Mount Sinai-Harlem Health is to bring increased access for much-needed specialty care to the community,” says Berthe Erisnor, MBA, Vice President, Ambulatory Services, Mount Sinai Morningside. “This beautiful, state-of-the-art facility gives us the ability to offer comprehensive services and advanced medical technology closer to the patients we serve. Expanding the community’s access to both primary and specialty care is something that we take very seriously.”
Mount Sinai’s Commitment to Upper Manhattan
Mount Sinai’s $80-million investment in the Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center is part of its broad commitment to providing inclusive, equitable, high-quality medical care and cutting-edge technology to all the communities it serves, including the residents of Upper Manhattan.
In 2022, Mount Sinai relocated its nursing school to East Harlem. The Phillips School of Nursing (PSON), located at 148 East 126th Street, provides a diverse student body with a progressive curriculum combining effective classroom teaching with clinical practice. PSON is dedicated to engaging its Upper Manhattan neighbors through community-based programs facilitated by its students and has established a partnership with the DREAM Charter School in East Harlem to expose students in grades K-12 to careers in health care.
In 2019, Mount Sinai opened the New York Proton Center (NYPC), the region’s foremost destination for proton and radiation therapy to treat cancer. Located at 225 East 126 Street, NYPC was created in partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Montefiore Medical Center.
Mount Sinai Doctors-West 147th Street, a long-established and highly regarded primary care practice, is located at 2771 Frederick Douglass Boulevard at 147th Street in the heart of Harlem. Board-certified medical doctors representing the diversity of the community provide a wide range of health care services and access to all the resources of Mount Sinai Morningside.
“Mount Sinai has a long and proud history of serving the Upper Manhattan community, and our new Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center is the latest in our ongoing commitment to deliver world-class care, resources, and services to where the community lives and works,” said Kelly Cassano, DO, Chief Executive Officer, Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice; Dean for Clinical Affairs, Icahn Mount Sinai; and Senior Vice President for Ambulatory Operations, Mount Sinai Health System.
Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center is located at 158 West 124th Street, between Adam Clayton Powell and Malcolm X boulevards.