Stories of Strength: Responding to COVID-19

Stories of Strength

Our people responding to the COVID-19 crisis

Resilient and Graceful, a Small Team Makes a Big Difference

Resilient and Graceful, a Small Team Makes a Big Difference

I would like to recognize the Transitions of Care team at The Mount Sinai Hospital for their extraordinary efforts during this time. Transitions of Care is a small group of nurses charged with a big task: calling patients post-discharge to assist them with...

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A Smiling “Hero” Keeps the Team Going

A Smiling “Hero” Keeps the Team Going

Rachel Pappalardo, RN, is one of our heroes at Mount Sinai, and has been for years. She is the heart of our lung cancer program and has supported our program and most important, our patients, for years now. Through the COVID-19 crisis, Rachel...

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Ophthalmology Residents Rise to the COVID-19 Challenge

Ophthalmology Residents Rise to the COVID-19 Challenge

Hours after Douglas Fredrick, MD, Deputy Chair of Education of Mount Sinai Ophthalmology, asked residents to volunteer to be redeployed, six out of twelve residents raised their hands. Two of them were deployed to the Elmhurst Hospital Emergency...

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Staying Late to Teach and Learn a New Patient-Care Skill

Staying Late to Teach and Learn a New Patient-Care Skill

The Center for Advanced Medical Simulation at Mount Sinai West (CAMS) is conducting two-hour sessions to prepare 136 RNs to take care of COVID-19 patients who are on mechanical ventilators after being transferred from intensive care. To observe social...

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Recognizing Our Colleagues

Recognizing Our Colleagues: Chantel Diaz, 42nd Street Office

"Needing to pick up a computer monitor for remote work, I went to my desk on the second floor at 150 East 42nd Street and discovered, after a few unsuccessful tries, that help would be needed to safely disconnect the monitor on my desk to bring home. In a corner of...

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