Mount Sinai Medical Volunteers Halfway Through Puerto Rico Mission
In often steamy conditions amid heavy rains, 10 medical volunteers from the Mount Sinai Health System are attending to almost 200 patients a day in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Halfway through their two-week mission to the island still recovering from Hurricane Maria, the...
A Health Care Transformation South of 34th Street
Several doors down from the Union Square subway station sits one of the Mount Sinai Health System’s hidden gems—a 350,000-square foot, full-service ambulatory center that includes physician offices for more than 30 clinical care specialties—and a new Urgent Care...
Mount Sinai Medical Volunteers Respond to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
Three physicians and seven nurses from the Mount Sinai Health System flew to Puerto Rico on Thursday, October 12, to begin a two-week mission to the island, which is still in dire need more than three weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated hospitals and other...
Walk4Hearing Raises Donations and Awareness
More than 30 participants from the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) joined thousands of colleagues, friends, and fellow New Yorkers at the Hearing Loss Association for America (HLAA) Walk4Hearing, held on Sunday, September 24, in Riverside Park....
Cholesterol Fairs Foster Heart Health
“Keeping your cholesterol levels healthy is a great way to lower your chances of getting heart disease or having a stroke. But first, you have to know your numbers,” says Joan E. Joseph, MHA, BSN, RN, Nurse Manager of the Arrhythmia Institute at Mount Sinai St....
Facts and Fun in a Visit to Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Mount Sinai Beth Israel’s Pediatric Short Stay Unit received a few special guests in May— kindergarteners from Chelsea’s PS 33 who were studying a “Med School” curriculum—and more visits from the school are on the agenda for this academic year. “I was giving Biology...
Push-Up Challenge for Prostate Health
Goals were set, and exceeded, by the Mount Sinai community at the Third Annual Push-Up for Prostate Cancer Challenge. The event on Wednesday, September 6, in the Guggenheim Pavilion, drew attention to men’s health and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, also offering...
Building the Talent Pipeline in Health Care Administration
This summer, several Mount Sinai Health System departments—through the Office for Diversity and Inclusion’s (ODI) talent pipeline program—hosted and supported 34 interns who aspire to careers in health care administration. High school, college, and graduate students...
Mount Sinai Celebrates Fifth Year as Medical Services Provider at US Open
Physicians and staff from the Mount Sinai Health System’s departments of Orthopaedics, Radiology, Rehabilitiation Medicine, and Dermatology were on hand to help the United States Tennis Association (USTA) kick off the 2017 US Open at a two-day event at the South...