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Mount Sinai Medical Center Ranked Number One by El Diario Readers

Readers from El Diario, NYC’s Top Spanish Language Newspaper, Selects The Mount Sinai Medical Center as the City’s Best Hospital

  • NYC
  • (November 07, 2011)

Today’s issue of El Diario La Prensa newspaper formally announced that The Mount Sinai Medical Center ranks number 1 as the best hospital by the publication’s readers.  Every year, El Diario conducts a survey among its more than a quarter of a million readers to gauge their opinions across a myriad of categories including their favorite hospital.

El Diario readers selected The Mount Sinai Medical Center in the category of “Best Hospitals for Excellent Services in NYC”.  This honor is a direct result not only of Mount Sinai’s prominence as a leading medical institution offering comprehensive care to its patients but also its leadership in developing culturally relevant initiatives to serve the Latino community.  

El Diario La Prensa is the oldest Spanish –language newspaper in the United States.  With a quarter million readers a day; it is the most widely read Spanish-language newspaper in New York and the third largest in the country.  El Diario La Prensa is part of impreMedia, the number one Hispanic news and Information Company in United States in online and print.

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About the Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.

Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.

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