Stories of Strength: Responding to COVID-19
A Chronicle of “Heartaches and Small Victories”
Jocelyn Sese, MSN, RN, Director of Patient Care Services at Mount Sinai Morningside, has been keeping a blog, called COVID-19 Diary: The Heartaches and the Small Victories. “This is not just my story,” she writes. “This is also a snapshot of my...
Fellowship, Compassion, and Support Bond the Mount Sinai Queens Family
The borough of Queens was hit particularly hard with COVID-19, and at Mount Sinai Queens we felt it from pillar to post. Fundamentally we were 99 percent COVID with almost double our normal census. I am the lone Chaplain at MSQ. In the middle of the panic, fear, and...
Volunteering Their Time and Hearts to Share a Heavy Burden
Maureen Bellare, PA, in the Department of Orthopedics at Mount Sinai West, and her colleagues were discussing their experiences with patients dying alone—families feeling helpless that they could not be with loved ones and nurses carrying the burden of this...
Away From His Clinical Home, a Physician Finds Himself Among Family
I did my medical training in New York, at an inner-city hospital. I trained in the time of HIV/AIDS. I was in the hospital during the riots in Brooklyn, the first and second Twin Tower bombings, and their aftermath. I thought I had seen it all. And then came COVID-19....
Making Face Masks for Colleagues Near and Far
A few weeks before Governor Cuomo announced that New Yorkers would be required to wear face masks out in public due to the pandemic, Christine Brower, Executive Assistant, Jack and Lucy Clark Department of Pediatrics, and her family, including her Aunt Lena, sister...
Transporters Show Great Agility, Empathy, and Teamwork in Uncertain Times
Andre Cooper and Rafael Miranda were the first transporters at Mount Sinai Morningside to take a COVID-19 patient under investigation (PUI) from the Emergency Department to an in-patient unit. It was a very scary time at the onset of the...
Recognizing Our Colleagues
Recognizing Our Colleagues: Bonnie Boyce, MSN, MPH, Mount Sinai Queens
"Right at the start of her shift at Mount Sinai Queens 2 East, nurse Bonnie Boyce, MSN, MPH, noticed that a patient, who was not her own, looked unwell. When she took the patient's pulse, she did not find one and immediately called a code. Advanced cardiac life...
Recognizing Our Colleagues: Vrashank Dave, PT, Mount Sinai Morningside
"On his way to work recently, Vrashank Dave, PT, Mount Sinai Morningside, helped a sick subway passenger who experienced chest pain and called 911. Vrashank helped the passenger prevent a fall and helped EMTs transfer him to a stretcher. Vrashank demonstrated quick...