Dr. Shoo Lee
Dr. Shoo Lee stands tall in the world of neonatology and among the tiny infants who are his patients. Wooed to Mount Sinai from Alberta last fall, Dr. Lee is Mount Sinai’s new Paediatrician-in-Chief and Head, Division of Neonatology, at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Thomas Stewart
For the past 10 years, Dr. Thomas Stewart has ensured excellent clinical care, education and research in Mount Sinai’s Intensive Care Unit as Director of Critical Care Medicine. In July 2009, Dr. Stewart will add Mount Sinai Physician-in-Chief to his list of accomplishments.
Lebovic Jewish Community Care Campus
Mount Sinai has extended its presence in the Greater Toronto Area by partnering with the United Jewish Appeal (UJA) to build a family health centre at the Lebovic Jewish Community Campus in Vaughan.
ER Offload Nurse Program
A new initiative at Mount Sinai’s Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre has greatly reduced the average time ambulance patients wait for treatment, contributing significantly to enhanced patient care.
Sarcoma Program
Dr. Peter Ferguson, Orthopaedic Oncologist in Mount Sinai Hospital’s Sarcoma Program, has a personal reason for specializing in the treatment of sarcoma. When he was 17, he lost his best friend to the disease. Sarcoma refers to cancers of the connective tissue, such as bone, cartilage and fat. At one time, 95 per cent of people with bone sarcoma died, and almost all required amputation.
Victims of Torture Program
The professional bond between Mount Sinai’s Psychological Trauma Clinic in the Department of Psychiatry and the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture (CCVT) continues to grow stronger.
Florabelle Agellon
Florabelle Agellon was born to be a nurse.
Early in her career, she had wanted to become a missionary nurse. But her plans changed in 1969 when she came to Canada to care for patients at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Nurse Clinician Implements Bedside Rounds
At Mount Sinai Hospital, patients and their families are at the core of everything we do. Patient and Family-Centred Care (PFCC) is an approach to health care based on partnerships among patients, families and health-care providers. The core principles of PFCC are dignity and respect, information sharing, participation and collaboration.
Renew Sinai
The year 2008-09 saw six new floors rise from the Murray Street side of our hospital building, an exciting milestone for Renew Sinai, the Hospital’s capital redevelopment project. The first phase of the project will expand space for our renowned Lawrence and Frances Bloomberg Centre for Women’s and Infants’ Health.
Rapid Assessment Zone ER Wait
An innovative nursing initiative is improving waiting-room flow and enabling patients to receive care more quickly than ever at Mount Sinai’s Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre.
Geriatric Nurses
An innovative nursing initiative is improving waiting-room flow and enabling patients to receive care more quickly than ever at Mount Sinai’s Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre.
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