Reimagining Care

MAKING MOUNT SINAI AN EVEN BETTER PLACE TO DELIVER AND RECEIVE CARE

Several projects are underway to meet growing demand and respond to our patients’ most urgent needs: expanded surgical services and the doubling in size of the Emergency Department. Construction has begun on 18 new state-of-theart operating rooms, while the driveway of the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre is being redeveloped for more efficient ambulance access and a 24-hour pedestrian entrance. We also started the highly complex process of relocating Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, where over 10,000 tests are performed daily, to its new home.

VOLUNTEERS STIMULATE THE MINDS, BODIES AND SPIRITS OF OUR OLDER PATIENTS

In 2018, an innovative volunteer program designed to improve older patients’ quality of life during their stay in hospital went system-wide. The Maximizing Aging Using Volunteer Engagement (MAUVE) program is made up of a group of specially trained volunteers sharing a meal, playing games, reading or taking visits outside with our older patients, improving quality of life as well as reducing cognitive and functional decline. After unprecedented success at Mount Sinai Hospital first in the Acute Care for Elders Unit, then in four other nursing units and the Emergency Department the program now provides aid and companionship to patients at Bridgepoint Active Healthcare. Since its Bridgepoint launch, MAUVE volunteers have provided over 900 hours of support on the Transitional Care Unit.

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DR. BERNARD ZINMAN, C.M.: PIONEERING RESEARCH IN DIABETES CARE

As the inaugural Director of the Leadership Sinai Centre for Diabetes, clinician-scientist Dr. Bernard Zinman is a leading authority in the field of diabetes care and research. He played a key role in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, a pivotal study that has had a global impact on the management of Type 1 diabetes. Dr. Zinman, who received the Order of Canada in 2012, has also led landmark studies on drug therapies that have dramatically reduced the incidence of cardiac and kidney complications in Type 2 diabetes. “Not often does a researcher enjoy the reward of both answering a question and adopting a new standard of care,” says Dr. Zinman. “Mount Sinai’s commitment to both investigation and clinical care in diabetes has made us one of the leading centres for diabetes experts and researchers in the world.”