Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside
Jennifer Price, left, President, The Mount Sinai Auxiliary Board, with Susan R. Bernstein, DSW
The Mount Sinai Auxiliary Board recently marked its 100th anniversary by awarding The Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Social Work Services a $300,000 grant to establish the Mount Sinai Partnership for Excellence in Social Work Practice in Health Care. The Partnership’s goal is to provide state-of-the-art education to social workers, ensuring the highest quality of services to patients and their families. Jennifer Price, Auxiliary Board President, noted, “This gift will transform social workers’ education for the evolving health care environment.” Susan R. Bernstein, DSW, Director, Social Work Services, and Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, said, “The Auxiliary Board has partnered with us to provide care for patients and their families since its creation, and we are very grateful for its generosity.”
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Your Health
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (NYEE) of Mount Sinai
As the nation’s emphasis on health care shifts from centralized hospitals that serve the sick to more proactive ways of keeping people healthy, and as more surgeries are safely handled in ambulatory settings, fewer hospitals will be needed.
This transformation is happening throughout New York City. A recent report by the New York Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), titled “One New York – Healthcare for Our Neighborhoods,” cited the closure of 19 city hospitals since 2003 and annual declines in the use of city hospital beds. The HHC report noted that New York City is increasingly moving toward a “system anchored by community-based preventive care.” (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Research
Medical Treatment at Home
An innovative program being run by the Mount Sinai Health System has shown that certain acute-care patients who choose to be treated at home rather than in a hospital are not only more satisfied with their care but also have lower medical costs and fewer medical complications.
These findings come amid the halfway point of a three-year plan that was launched by Mount Sinai in November 2014 after receiving a $9.6 million Health Care Innovation Award from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to create a unique “hospital at home” program.
Known as the Mobile Acute Care Team (MACT), the program illustrates Mount Sinai’s commitment to being on the cutting edge of the way medicine will be practiced and creating an innovative health care system for the future, one that emphasizes outpatient, ambulatory, and home-based care with remote monitoring capabilities. The award further highlights Mount Sinai’s role as a pioneer in developing a new clinical and financial reimbursement model for patients with acute illnesses. (more…)
Updated on Jun 30, 2022 | Inside, Insights, Your Health
Sweeping change in the practice of health care is leading to a transformation in the Mount Sinai Health System’s downtown footprint. A planned investment of more than $500 million will create the new “Mount Sinai Downtown,” an expanded and unified network of facilities—stretching from the East River to the Hudson River—that will provide highly skilled emergency care, urgent care, outpatient, inpatient, and ambulatory services to people living and working in New York City below 34th Street. (more…)
May 6, 2016 | Community, Inside, School
Neil Calman, MD, and Kamini Doobay
Kamini Doobay, a fourth-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, played a key role in organizing a recent forum in New York City that featured renowned medical, public health, and academic leaders who convened to examine racial inequities that contribute to poorer health outcomes in communities of color.
The program, “Dismantling Racism in the NYC Health System: The Time is Now,” took place Saturday, March 12, at the CUNY Graduate Center and drew 200 participants. Ms. Doobay worked with Mount Sinai’s Department of Medical Education, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and other entities to develop the day-long activities. (more…)
