Market Watch - "Why You Should Care About Palliative Care"
Nursing Clinical Special Coordinator Jay Horton sees the importance—and conveys the necessity—for early involvement with patients receiving palliative care.
Jay Horton, a nurse practitioner who oversees nurses in the palliative-care program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, said such early involvement is what patients need. "Waiting until a patient's last days or weeks when they already feel awful and debilitated misses out on a lot of the benefit, and it also doesn't allow for the relationship and trust to be built over time that everyone wants to have with their health-care providers.” Learn More
- Jay Horton, Nursing Clinical Specialty Coordinator, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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 48,000 employees working across seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 600 research and clinical 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 9,000 primary and specialty care physicians and 10 free-standing joint-venture centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida. Hospitals within the System are consistently ranked by Newsweek’s® “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals, Best in State Hospitals, World Best Hospitals and Best Specialty Hospitals” and by U.S. News & World Report's® “Best Hospitals” and “Best Children’s Hospitals.” The Mount Sinai Hospital is on the U.S. News & World Report® “Best Hospitals” Honor Roll for 2025-2026.
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