Mount Sinai Health System Celebrates February's American Heart Month
Free Community Heart Health Fairs, educational lectures, and events hosted across Mount Sinai this February.
The Mount Sinai Health System will mark American Heart Month in February by hosting on its hospital campuses free heart health fairs, health screenings, expert lectures, and heart healthy cooking demonstrations.
"Our goal this Heart Month is to raise awareness of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, the number one killer of Americans and New Yorkers," says Beth Oliver, RN, DNP, Vice President of Cardiac Services for the Mount Sinai Health System. "Mount Sinai's Heart Month and daily goal is to seize every opportunity to educate our communities and employees about how to keep their hearts healthy. Our events and activities are designed to help lower their disease risk and improve heart health through increased personal health knowledge, healthier diets, and at least 30 minutes of physical activity per day."
Mount Sinai Health System's Heart Month activities include:
February 6 "Go Red" Community Heart Health Fairs
Each Mount Sinai Community Heart Health Fair will be hosted on February 6 from 10:00am-2:00pm offering free heart health screenings for blood pressure, total cholesterol including good and bad cholesterol levels, triglyceride level, and body mass index (BMI). Educational demonstrations will be available for nutrition and diet, diabetes, stress management, smoking cessation, yoga and other relaxation techniques. Also, free heart healthy food tastings will be prepared by hospital chefs, and guests will receive free giveaways and a goodie-bag upon completion of their heart health screenings.
The Mount Sinai Hospital
1468 Madison Avenue
Guggenheim Pavilion, Lobby
Mount Sinai Beth Israel-
Petrie Division
First Ave at 16th Street
2nd Floor, Dazian Rotunda
Mount Sinai Beth Israel-
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center (PACC)
10 Union Square East
2nd Floor, Atrium
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Brooklyn
3201 Kings Highway
Main Lobby
Mount Sinai St. Luke's
1111 Amsterdam Avenue
Main Lobby
Mount Sinai Queens
"Wear Red for Women at Mount Sinai Queens"
Free screenings for blood pressure, BMI, heart health information, and expert lectures.
Location: Church of the Redeemer
30-14 Crescent Street
Astoria, NY 11102
(Located across from Mount Sinai Queens)
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
*RSVP to Mount Sinai Queens is required.
Register at: www.mshq.org/community/events/wear-red-for-women-at-mount-sinai-queens-february-6-2015
or call: 718-267-4333
Mount Sinai Heart Community Events
•February 4
Mount Sinai Heart Community Health Talk: Cholesterol Does Matter
Location: Hamilton Senior Center
141 73rd Street (Between Amsterdam and Columbus Aves.)
Time: 12:30 – 1:30 pm
For more information , call 212-787-7710
•February 8
Mount Sinai Heart: Harlem Heart-Healthy Screening Program
Abyssinian Health Ministry Hosts: Free blood pressure and cholesterol testing, nutrition, diet counseling, and more.
Location: The Abyssinian Baptist Church- Fellowship Hall,
132 Odell Clark Place at West 138th Street
(Between Lenox Ave. and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard)
Time: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
For more information, call 917-362-6800
• February 17
Mount Sinai Heart: Community Blood Pressure Screening Program
Free blood pressure monitoring and medical consultations.
Location: Hamilton Senior Center
141 West 73rd Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus Aves.)
Time: 12:30 - 1:30 pm
For more information, call 212-787-7710
• February 18
Harlem Heart-Healthy Workshop Series: Saving Hearts by Eating Right
Speaker: Icilma Fergus, MD
Location: Kennedy Community Center
34 West 134th Street (Between Lenox and Fifth Avenues)
Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm
For more information, call 212-241-3271.
Heart Healthy Cooking Demonstration
• February 25
"Eat Heartily with Chef Rocco Sacramone"
Heart healthy cooking demonstration and food tasting presented by Mount Sinai Queens and United Community
Civic Association, Central Sushi Bar and Lounge, and Rocco Sacramone.
Location: Central Sushi Bar and Lounge
20-30 Steinway Street, Astoria, NY 11105
Time: 6:30pm
RSVP to Mount Sinai Queens is required.
Register at: www.mshq.org/community/events/eat-heartily-with-chef-rocco-sacramone-february-25-2015 or call: 718-267-4333
Women's Heart NY of The Mount Sinai Health System
• February 9 & February 23
Women's Heart NY: Support Group
Mount Sinai Beth Israel – PACC
10 Union Square East
Time: 6:00-7:30pm
*Registration required.
• February 21
Women's Heart NY: Exercise Education Workshop
The Center for Health and Healing
245 Fifth Avenue
Time: 11:30am-1:00pm
*Registration required.
• February 19
Cholesterol and Glucose Screenings: Hosted by Karpas Information Center
NYC Parks and Recreation Chelsea Recreation Center
430 West 25th Street
Time: 4:00-7:00pm
*Registration required.
• February 19
Women's Heart NY 6-Session "Heart Smart" Education Course
A free, 6-session heart health program for Thursdays Feb. 19, 26, March 5, 12, 19, & 26
in partnership with NYC Parks and Recreation Chelsea Recreation Center. This program is
made possible, in part, by grant funding from the TD Bank Charitable Foundation.
NYC Parks and Recreation Chelsea Recreation Center
430 West 25th Street
Time: 6:00-7:00pm
*Registration required.
To register for a WHNY event, please contact 212-523-9663 or email: strignano@chpnet.org
Mount Sinai Beth Israel: Heart Health Educational Lectures
• February 4
Women and Vascular Disease
Speaker: Ramesh Gowda, MD
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
First Avenue at 16th Street
3 Linsky – Conference Room
Time: 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
• February 11
Women and Heart Disease
Speaker: Susan Hecht, MD
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
First Avenue at 16th Street
3 Linsky – Conference Room
Time: 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
• February 12
Sweetheart CPR: "Embrace Your Heart"
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
First Avenue at 16th Street
3 Linsky – Conference Room
Time: 5:30– 7:00 pm
• February 18
Broken Heart Syndrome
Speaker: Maurice Rachko, MD
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
First Avenue at 16th Street
3 Linsky – Conference Room
Time: 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
• February 25
Diet and Exercise Your Heart: Preventing Heart Disease
Speaker: Margaret Furman, MD
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
First Avenue at 16th Street
3 Linsky – Conference Room
Time: 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm
• February 27
Heart Healthy Cooking and Ask the Expert
Speaker: Dennis Finkielstein, MD
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
317 East 17th Street
8th Floor, Fierman Hall
Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Note: $5.00 registration fee
For more information on the expert lectures of Mount Sinai Beth Israel, please contact: 212-420-2806.
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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