"Mount Sinai Opens StuyTown Practice" - Jonathan LaMantia

Mount Sinai Health System opened a 5,000-square-foot multispecialty practice in Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Thursday. The facility is part of its strategy to expand ambulatory care downtown while it reduces the size of Mount Sinai Beth Israel. The new location, at 518 E. 20th St., offers primary care and pediatrics as well as orthopedics, OB/GYN, podiatry and dermatology services. It has an X-ray machine and can treat a higher-acuity patient than a typical primary care office, but it isn't quite as sophisticated as major multispecialty practices, such as Mount Sinai Union Square, said Jeremy Boal, MD president of the Mount Sinai Downtown Network and chief medical officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. Dr. Boal, who lives in Stuyvesant Town, has noticed an unmet need for primary care for the area's 30,000 residents. "We've seen a lot of physicians who traditionally served the StuyTown community age out without a lot of replacements," he said. Mount Sinai Downtown has 600 doctors and 18 ambulatory-care sites south of 34th Street. "The bulk of care people need can and should be delivered in the community," Dr. Boal said.

- Jeremy Boal, MD, President, Mount Sinai Downtown, Chief Medical Officer, Mount Sinai Health System

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