Celebrating Nurses at Commencement 2017
In a jubilant ceremony, the Phillips School of Nursing (PSON) at Mount Sinai Beth Israel graduated 80 new nurses who received an Associate’s Degree in Nursing, and conferred a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree to 24 registered nurses. The 113th graduation ceremony...
Pharmacy Leadership and Staff Honored With Four Awards
Joanne Meyer, PharmD, MS, Chief Pharmacy Officer, Mount Sinai Health System, was recently honored by the New York State Council of Health-System Pharmacists (NYSCHP) Research and Education Foundation for exemplary leadership. Dr. Meyer received the Bernard Mehl...
A Winning Team of Medical Students
Third-year medical students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai recently participated in an educational competition—modeled after the popular television show Shark Tank—to develop and pitch novel interventions to a panel of judges for issues involving...
Mount Sinai Cardiologist Awarded 2017 Ellis Island Medal of Honor
In a ceremony held on Ellis Island in May, Annapoorna S. Kini, MD, Zena and Michael A. Wiener Professor of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at The Mount Sinai Hospital, was among an esteemed group of recipients of the 2017 Ellis Island...
Educating Patients About High Blood Pressure and Stroke
During National High Blood Pressure Education Month and American Stroke Month in May, Mount Sinai Heart, the Cerebrovascular Center, and the Department of Neurology sponsored an awareness event in the Guggenheim Pavilion. Attendees had their blood pressure screened,...
The Dubin Breast Center Opens New Pre-Operative Unit
Leaders of The Mount Sinai Hospital held a ribbon cutting on Wednesday, April 5, to celebrate the newly redesigned Dubin Pre-Operative Unit, an inviting area on the seventh floor of the Guggenheim Pavilion with five private rooms where patients can prepare for surgery...
Fifteen Honored During Nurses Week Celebration
“We celebrate the heart of Mount Sinai, the Department of Nursing,” said David L. Reich, MD, President of The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Queens, at the 36th Annual Excellence in Nursing Practice Awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 9. The event, held in Stern...
Partnership to Provide Legal Help to Patients in Need
The Mount Sinai Health System recently launched the Mount Sinai Medical-Legal Partnership, a nonprofit organization created to help address the needs of patients living in poverty. “While we provide extraordinary health care, sometimes legal services are necessary,...
Mount Sinai Celebrates at the 32nd Crystal Party
More than 1,100 leaders, staff, supporters, and friends of the Mount Sinai Health System celebrated a year of significant progress and accomplishments on Thursday, May 4, at the 32nd annual Crystal Party, Mount Sinai’s major social event of the season. The...