

“Take me to Mount Sinai,” said Adam Block to a Pearson Airport cab driver on February 3, 2009. For more than 24 hours, he had been suffering from severe abdominal pain, fading eye-sight and raging thirst.

Although he couldn’t speak with staff during his five-week stay at Mount Sinai Hospital in the spring of 2008, Jose Melo had said that the kindness and human touch of 11 North nurses made him feel respected as both a person and patient.

When Janna Cheng’s husband Steve was diagnosed with a terminal illness in March 2007, it was devastating for the entire family but particularly their daughter Jenny, who was only 12 at the time.
To help Jenny cope with her father’s illness, Janna was referred to Mount Sinai Hospital’s Max and Beatrice Wolfe Centre for Children's Grief and Palliative Care.

Amy Stein joined Leadership Sinai because she wanted to help fundraise for Mount Sinai and make a difference in the community. She did not anticipate that her efforts would benefit her own newborn daughter.