Cancer Survivor, 86, Recovers from COVID-19 with Help from Mount Sinai’s Unique Hospitalization at Home Program
When Paul Levine, 86, began feeling sick, with chills, fever, and weakness, he feared his cancer might have returned, so he called his oncologist. After learning Mr. Levine had lost his sense of smell, a symptom of COVID-19, the doctor immediately sent him...
First-Time Mother Receives Life-Saving Aortic Surgery
A first-time mother received life-saving heart surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital, thanks to her quick response to her symptoms and knowledge of her family’s health history, says a leader of her surgical team, Ismail El-Hamamsy, MD, PhD, Director of...
Mount Sinai Queens Nurses Share Memories With COVID-19 Patients’ Survivors
The nurses of Mount Sinai Queens are giving a precious gift to families of patients who succumbed to COVID-19 during the height of the pandemic—their memories of the patients’ last days. In one letter, carefully hand-written on lined paper, Amparo...
As COVID-19 Restrictions Ease, Grateful Heart Patient Receives Urgent Surgery
Thomas Marshall, 65, was planning to have coronary artery bypass surgery at Mount Sinai Morningside in early April due to signs of worsening coronary artery disease. But those plans were derailed when the COVID-19 pandemic forced New York hospitals to...
How I Recovered From COVID-19 at Home With the Help of a New App: A Patient Story
Should I go to the hospital or stay at home? This is one of the first questions that people who think they have COVID-19 wrestle with. Now, thanks to a remote monitoring platform from Mount Sinai Health System called Precision Recovery, patients can have...
Large-Vessel Stroke and COVID-19 in Young Patients: New Insights
Cerebrovascular stroke specialists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have reported on five patients younger than 50 years of age who presented to the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City with large-vessel stroke and COVID-19,...
Medical Team Safely Delivers Baby in Critical Care Unit
At around 5 pm on Wednesday, January 8, Leslie Echeverria, 24, gave birth to a healthy baby girl at The Mount Sinai Hospital—the norm at Mount Sinai under ordinary circumstances, where physicians and medical staff perform thousands of uneventful deliveries every year....
Football Star Brings Inspiration to Young Patients
Patients and families at the Child Life Zone at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital received a special visit on Sunday, December 15, from Joe Burrow, just a day after he was named the 2019 Heisman Trophy winner. The Louisiana State University...
From Afar, a Diagnosis, and Then Help for Baby Noor
It first appeared as a small rash a few weeks after Noor Nunez was born in 2018 in Kuwait, where she lives with her three older siblings, her Saudi mother, Rania Al-Mutairi, and American father, Joe Nunez. The red mark on her skin, however, was not a rash,...