Mount Sinai Health System Celebrates February’s Heart Month
In recognition of American Heart Month in February, the Mount Sinai Health System will host “Go Red" Community Heart Health Fairs at its hospitals. These events will provide free heart health screenings for blood pressure, total cholesterol, triglyceride level, and body mass index (BMI), and experts will lead educational demonstrations focusing on nutrition and diet, diabetes, stress management, smoking cessation, and yoga and other relaxation techniques.
“Our goal this Heart Month is to educate our communities and employees about the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, the number one killer of women, causing one in every three deaths each year,” said Beth Oliver, RN, DNP, Senior Vice President of Cardiac Services for the Mount Sinai Health System. According to the American Heart Association (AHA), that’s approximately one woman every minute. “We aim to empower women and men through our health screenings, demos and education on how to take control of their heart health and make positive, healthy changes.”
To raise awareness for women, the American Heart Association launched Go Red for Women in 2004. The initiative challenges women to know their risk for heart disease and take action to reduce it. Event attendees are encouraged to wear anything red—from a red accessory to full red attire—to remind women about the proportionately greater risk they face for cardiovascular disease and heart attacks. Women can take action to improve their overall health by making a few lifestyle changes, such as lowering their cholesterol, managing their blood sugar, exercising, and eating healthy.
For more information, please visit mountsinai.org/GoRed.
“Go Red" Community Heart Health Fairs will be held on Friday, February 3, 2017, from 11 am-2 pm at the following locations:
Mount Sinai Brooklyn
3201 Kings Highway
Upper Lobby
Contact: Mary Jane Ventura 718-951-2916
The Mount Sinai Hospital
1468 Madison Avenue
Guggenheim Pavilion, Lobby
Contact: Dion Harrigan 212-241-6146
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center (PACC)
10 Union Square East
Second Floor –Atrium
Contact: Lena Chang 212-420-4746
Mount Sinai St. Luke's
1111 Amsterdam Avenue at 114th Street
Babcock Lobby, First Floor
Contact: Joan Joseph 212-523-2023
Mount Sinai West
1000 Tenth Avenue at West 58th Street
Main Lobby
Contact: Wendy O’Brien 646-745-5725
Mount Sinai Queens*
Ambulatory Pavilion
25-20 30th Avenue,
5th Floor
Contact: Ana Rodriquez 718-808-7726
* Event begins at 5 pm
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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