Career Event for Women’s History Month
While doing good work is vitally important, it may not be enough to get you noticed and move you along your career path. That was the message of a panel discussion, “Accelerating Career Advancement,” held at Mount Sinai Queens on Thursday, March 14, as...
Pageantry for Charity At Drag Race Event
More than 200 people enjoyed an evening of pageantry at The Mount Sinai Charity Drag Race, an event inspired by the reality television competition RuPaul’s Drag Race, in Goldwrum Auditorium on Thursday, January 31. Organized by two Icahn School...
Mount Sinai Ranked as Top Employer for Diversity
Forbes has ranked the Mount Sinai Health System No. 1 nationally among health systems and hospitals, and No. 19 overall, on its 2019 list of “The Best Employers for Diversity.” The rankings included 500 U.S. organizations in major...
Mount Sinai Hosts First Tri-State Diversity Summit
The Mount Sinai Health System recently hosted the National Diversity Council’s inaugural Tri-State Health Care Diversity Summit at the Corporate Services Center, which brought together nearly 100 health care administrators and diversity and inclusion professionals...
Exploring a Wide Range of Careers in Health
More than 120 high school, college, and graduate students aspiring to a broad range of careers in health participated this summer in internships and talent pipeline programs throughout the Mount Sinai Health System. Two units of the Office for Diversity and Inclusion...
First Administrative Fellows Complete Two-Year Program That Advances Diversity
With broad support from system leadership, the Office for Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) launched a postgraduate program to build a pipeline to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in health care administration. ODI recruited...
Mount Sinai Staff Members March in Two Pride Parades
The Mount Sinai Health System recently took part in two festive Pride Month events. In the Queens Pride Parade, held on Sunday, June 3, in Jackson Heights, dozens of employees walked behind a Mount Sinai banner wearing T-shirts that read, “We...
Mount Sinai Ranks No. 1 in Diversity and Inclusion Among U.S. Health Care Institutions for Second Year
For the second consecutive year, the Mount Sinai Health System has ranked No.1 on the “Top 12 Hospitals and Health Systems” list of DiversityInc, the nation’s leading publication in advancing diversity management. Among the best practices that...
Health System Receives Award for Leading in Diversity and Inclusion
The Mount Sinai Health System has received the National Medical Fellowships (NMF) Leadership in Diversity Award, which honors companies and individuals that take the lead in fostering diversity and inclusion. Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn...
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...