Grateful Patient Acknowledges Neurosurgical Team
In 2017, Jeannie Gaffigan, a popular director, producer, and comedy writer, urgently needed to consult with a neurosurgeon. An MRI had revealed that the seemingly harmless symptoms that she had been experiencing, and ignoring for at least a year—including...
No Laughing Matter: In a New Book, Comedy Writer and Producer Jeannie Gaffigan Explains How Mount Sinai Saved Her Life
From the moment her doctor told her a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan had revealed a large mass in her brain, Jeannie Gaffigan found her life filled with fear and anxiety—until she and her husband walked into The Mount Sinai Hospital and the office...
Mount Sinai Specialist Helps a Young Athlete Get Back on the Court
It’s one of those diagnoses every young athlete, and their parents, fear: A torn ACL—the anterior cruciate ligament, one of the major ligaments in the knee.The injury can happen to young athletes who play sports that involve twisting, turning, jumping, and...
Two Mount Sinai Doctors Featured in New Netflix Series “Diagnosis” Treating a Young Girl with a Rare and Devastating Neurological Disease
Episode 2 of a new Netflix docu-series titled "Diagnosis" focuses on seven-year-old Sadie Gonzalez from Queens, who suddenly began suffering seizures. Doctors at one New York hospital give her the devastating diagnosis of Rasmussen's...
Cerebrovascular Stroke Center Opens in Queens
The New York State Commissioner of Health, Howard A. Zucker, MD, JD, and New York City Council member Costa Constantinides were among the esteemed guests at a special celebration as Mount Sinai Queens unveiled its world-class Cerebrovascular Stroke Center,...
Organ Transplant Team Offers “HOPE” to Patients
In June, Jose Velez became the 50th person at the Mount Sinai Health System’s Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute to receive a transplant under the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act, which allows organs from HIV-positive donors to be...
Creating a “Circle of CARE”
On a recent Friday afternoon, patient Mohammed Choudhury was delighted to see Navjot Kaur, RN, and Wendy Chow, a recent nursing school graduate and volunteer in the Care and Respect for Everyone (CARE) program, walk into his room on the sixth floor of the Klingenstein...
The Mount Sinai Hospital Welcomes New Facility Dog
The Mount Sinai Hospital recently welcomed Moby as its newest four-legged employee in the Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department. The young, sweet-natured golden doodle now serves as the hospital’s third facility dog—along with...
Nurse at South Nassau Communities Hospital Helps Save Man in Long Island Movie Theater
Shyvonne Allen-Ibitoye woke up Easter morning intent on going to church. But instead, the registered nurse at South Nassau Communities Hospital took her son to a movie. As the movie was playing, she realized a man sitting a few rows back was...