Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Mount Sinai Health System Mark Milestone in Fetal Medicine and Children’s Heart Programs
MSHS-CHOP Leaders Open Facility making innovative treatments available to New York families
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Mount Sinai Health System took another step forward today in their 18-month-old alliance with the official opening of their Fetal Medicine Program and the affiliation of the Mount Sinai Children’s Heart Center with the Cardiac Center at CHOP.
Designed for mothers carrying fetuses with known birth defects, the Fetal Medicine Program will offer access to an unprecedented scope of services. Officials from both hospitals participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony held today at the new facility at the Mount Sinai Hospital’s Annenberg Building.
The Fetal Medicine Program provides mothers carrying fetuses with known birth defects that require fetal surgery and treatment before or after birth, with expert maternal-fetal care services including ultrasound, and ultrafast fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). All diagnostic testing will be performed at the Mount Sinai Hospital; images will be read by specialists in fetal radiology at CHOP in coordination with Mount Sinai maternal and fetal medicine specialists using telemedicine video links. Patient visits to the Fetal Medicine Program are planned so that everything takes place in a single day. The program is the only one in New York City offering this convenience and level of services.
The new affiliation of the Mount Sinai Children’s Heart Center and the CHOP Cardiac Center brings access to New York of expertise and resources form one of the nation’s leading pediatric cardiac centers. The affiliation includes the Fetal Heart Program, which is focused on accurate diagnosis and comprehensive care planning for unborn children with congenital heart anomalies. Congenital heart disease can often be diagnosed utilizing fetal echocardiography as early as 12-14 weeks gestation, and the best optimal care plan can be developed with the family through clinical collaboration and telemedicine technology with physicians at both institutions. The Children’s Heart Center at Mount Sinai Hospital provides a continuum of care ranging from prenatal to pediatric, adolescent, and adult life, and now will have access to the expertise of CHOP’s Cardiac Center in areas such as pediatric cardiac intensive care and pediatric cardiothoracic surgery. The Children’s Heart Center offers exceptional pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgical services, including echocardiography, exercise testing, Holter monitoring, interventional cardiology and angiography, and cardiovascular genetics. The Mount Sinai and CHOP teams can provide joint expertise at all points of treatment through direct consultation and use of telehealth technology.
The alliance between Mount Sinai and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was announced in the fall of 2015, and includes three services: fetal medicine, pediatric cardiac care, and pediatric oncology. It is intended to give patients access to the newest treatments and expertise from Mount Sinai and CHOP experts close to home at select Mount Sinai locations.
"Mount Sinai is pleased to collaborate with CHOP, a world-renowned institution, to ensure excellent patient care," said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. "Our goal is to offer the highest quality maternal, fetal, and pediatric care to patients — especially those with complex needs — across a large health system and a fast-growing ambulatory care network. And together, we will be uniquely positioned to recruit and retain the best faculty in the region."
"CHOP is pleased to mark this milestone in the relationship between two health care institutions that are totally dedicated to caring for the health of children and their families," said Madeline Bell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. "The alliance with the Mount Sinai Health System continues to evolve and reflects both a shared vision to better serve families in the New York region and a mutual professional respect and admiration between our organizations," Bell said.
About The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation’s first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals and pioneering major research initiatives, Children’s Hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought the 546-bed hospital recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more information, visit www.chop.edu.
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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