Mount Sinai in the Community

Mount Sinai’s connection to community health goes to the heart of how we see ourselves — not only as a major medical institution committed to offering the finest care, but as a resource for change, solutions, and hope in the lives of you, our neighbors — people whose health needs are often underserved.

Mount Sinai places its focus on improving the health of our communities, and we have set the following priorities to guide our service, education, and research missions:

• Address and improve chronic disease health disparities
• Improve cardiovascular health
• Prevent and treat infectious diseases
• Improve maternal and women's health
• Support the positive physical and mental health development of children and adolescents
• Maintain health and reduce institutional care for the elderly
• Reduce language, cultural, and economic barriers to medical care

To achieve these goals, our efforts include maintaining partnerships with community-based health organizations to increase access to quality care. We work with community groups and city agencies to build programs such as the Prescriptions for Good Health and Growing Up Healthy in East Harlem, a community-based study exploring factors in the built environment that affect the health of children.

Mount Sinai will continue to look for new approaches, new perspectives, and new ways to service our community.