Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony For Ambulatory Pavilion
Community leaders, elected officials, physicians, neighbors, and staff joined executives from The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens for a ribbon-cutting ceremony in May to celebrate the official opening of the hospital’s six-story,...
BioBank Program Celebrates National DNA Day
While enjoying cake pops arranged in the shape of a double helix, visitors engaged with staff from the BioMe™ BioBank Program at the National DNA Day fair held on Wednesday, April 25, in Guggenheim Pavilion. More than 200 attended the fair, which commemorates the...
Respiratory Institute Opens Second Location
The Mount Sinai – National Jewish Health Respiratory Institute opened its second Manhattan location on Monday, April 16, in Union Square, where specialists now treat asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary hypertension, lung cancer,...
The “Purse Project” Aids Homeless Women
Women at a shelter in Brooklyn received spirit-lifting donations thanks to a collaboration of the nonprofit Bowery Residents’ Committee (BRC) and HOLA, the Heritage of Latino Alliance Employee Resource Group at the Mount Sinai Health System. In the effort, called the...
Keeping Patients Safe with Remote Monitoring System
A new Remote Patient Monitoring Program system, introduced in five units at The Mount Sinai Hospital as a pilot project in 2015, has expanded throughout the hospital and to Mount Sinai Queens, a unique technological effort to help nursing staff reduce...
Celebrating a Top 20 National Ranking
The Department of Radiology and the Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai held a lunch on Thursday, April 12, for faculty, trainees, staff, and guests to celebrate a No. 20 ranking in National Institutes of Health...
Basketball Fun Helps Raise Awareness for Kidney Disease
Attendees had fun making free throws and learning about kidney health from members of the Mount Sinai Health System’s Department of Urology at a March Madness-themed Kidney Cancer and Health Fair on Wednesday, March 28. The event, held in Guggenheim Pavilion, featured...
Mount Sinai Marches for Science
More than 60 medical and graduate students and faculty from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai participated in the March for Science New York City on Saturday, April 14—one of 175 satellite events held with the national march in Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored...
Wholeness of Life Awards Cite Compassionate Care
Six Mount Sinai Health System employees received 2017 Wholeness of Life Awards from the HealthCare Chaplaincy Network™ for their commitment to providing compassionate and respectful care to patients in crisis. Three health care chaplains at Mount Sinai were named...