• Press Release

For the Second Year in a Row, Readers from El Diario La Prensa, NYC’s Top Spanish Language Newspaper, Select The Mount Sinai Hospital as the City’s Best Hospital

  • (November 06, 2012)

On October 26th, El Diario La Prensa newspaper formally announced that, for the second year in a row, The Mount Sinai Hospital ranked number one 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 Hospital 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 improve the health of Latinos by educating, engaging and empowering them for a healthier future.  

El Diario La Prensa is the oldest Spanish–language newspaper in the United States.  With more than 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.


About the Mount Sinai Health System

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the nation’s leading integrated academic health systems and one of the largest in the New York metropolitan area. Its comprehensive system includes seven hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, over 600 research and clinical laboratories, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing. Together, the Health System comprises approximately 48,000 employees, more than 9,000 physicians, and 8,600 nurses.

As a leading learning health system, Mount Sinai combines clinical expertise with scientific discovery to improve patient care while training the next generation of health care and biomedical leaders. The Health System provides care across every stage of life, from prenatal care through geriatrics, while advancing personalized medicine through artificial intelligence, data science, and biomedical research.

Mount Sinai is consistently recognized among the nation’s leading academic health systems for patient care, research, and education. The Mount Sinai Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York by Newsweek and No. 5 on the magazine’s World’s Best Hospitals list. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ranks No. 11 among U.S. medical schools and No. 1 among freestanding medical schools for National Institutes of Health funding, reflecting the strength of its scientific enterprise and leadership in biomedical research.