Transformative Program Will Unify Business Operations Across the Health System
The Mount Sinai Health System is undertaking a massive business-operations project that will affect 39,000 staff and consultants in the system. The Enterprise Business Process Transformation (eBPT) Program will integrate the computer systems now used for human...
Making Connections at Women of Color in Medicine and Science Dinner
At the fourth annual Women of Color in Medicine and Science dinner, more than 100 students, physicians, researchers, and administrators from across the Mount Sinai Health System shared a meal and built connections. The event, sponsored by Students for...
A Free Throw Challenge Helps Raise Awareness for Kidney Disease
More than 200 individuals participated in the Annual Kidney Cancer and Kidney Health Fair, a March Madness-themed event organized by Ash Tewari, MBBS, MCh, the Kyung Hyun Kim, MD Chair in Urology, and Ketan K. Badani, MD, Professor of Urology at the Icahn...
A New Approach to Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care
A ribbon-cutting for the newly renovated pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (PCICU) at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital celebrated not only a bright and comforting environment for patients and their families, but a new approach in...
Celebrating an Award at the One Hundred Black Men Gala
The Mount Sinai Health System recently received the HealthCare Partnership Award at the 39th annual gala for One Hundred Black Men, Inc. of New York held at the Sheraton New York Times Square. The award acknowledged the burgeoning partnership between the...
Student-Run Community Clinic Celebrates 15 Years
For 15 years, students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have been providing free, confidential medical services to uninsured residents of East Harlem at a campus-based clinic at 102nd Street. Supported entirely by donors and...
2 New Leaders in Group Advancing Integrative Care and Health Equity
Two Mount Sinai educators, researchers, and clinicians who are dedicated to advancing evidence-based integrative medicine and addressing health care disparities were named in May to leadership roles in a national organization, the Academic Consortium for...
Mount Sinai Researchers Show That Early Intervention in Preschool Is a Unique Opportunity for Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle
Children may have a better chance of avoiding unhealthy habits linked to obesity and cardiovascular disease later in life if they are taught properly about healthy behaviors in preschool, Mount Sinai researchers have shown in a first-of-its-kind study. The researchers...
Patient Safety Highlighted at Events
The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens kicked off Patient Safety Week on their campuses in mid-March with the screening of a documentary film, followed by two-day patient safety fairs. Organized by the Department of Risk Management and Patient...