Inaugural Health Care Inclusion Summit Provides a Road Map to Positive Change
At the start of a meeting, give participants a few moments to reflect quietly on the subject at hand, then call on each person for their thoughts. When people do speak, “listen to understand, and not to reply.” These were some of the specific and achievable strategies...
Closing the Chasm: Collaborating across Community Organizations and Health Systems
There is wide acknowledgement that health care and social services need to be better integrated to achieve community health, especially for the most vulnerable. The best way to do this is not always clear. Health systems and community-based organizations...
New Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai-Union Square
With a significant gift from the lifestyle mogul Martha Stewart, the Mount Sinai Health System has expanded its successful model of care for older adults by opening the Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai-Union Square. The Center, at 10 Union...
Scholar-Athletes Learn About Health Care Careers at Inaugural NYC-SWAG Summit
Scholar-athletes learned about careers in health care, medicine, and science—and learned that they might have exactly the right attributes to succeed—at the inaugural NYC-SWAG (Scholar-Athletes With Academic Goals) Summit. About 120 participants attended the event,...
Honoring a Legacy of Kindness, Generosity, and Commitment
Family and friends of J. Louis Heller, MD, the late founder and long-time Chief of Anesthesiology at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, and his late wife, Lydia Charlotte Heller, gathered recently to recognize the couple’s...
Celebrating a Journey to Wellness
The pop music classic “Bridge Over Troubled Water” took on an added message of hope and resilience at Mount Sinai’s 22nd annual National Cancer Survivors Day® luncheon when sung soulfully by Marie Mazziotti, an accomplished musician who is also...
Spiritual Health Symposium Is Centered on Compassion
Show compassion for patients, for co-workers, and most important, for yourself. That was the central message of the recent Spiritual Health Symposium, sponsored by the Mount Sinai Center for Spirituality and Health and the Department of Nursing. About 125...
NYEE Residents Celebrate Commencement 2019
Seven residents and eleven fellows recently participated in the 2019 Commencement of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE). James C. Tsai, MD, MBA, President of NYEE and System Chair of Ophthalmology at the Mount Sinai Health...
Tournament Supports Neurosurgery Charity
Faculty, fellows, and residents from the Department of Neurosurgery recently participated in the 16th Annual Neurosurgery Charity Soft ball Tournament in Central Park, joining more than 30 teams from academic medical centers in the United...