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Mount Sinai Health System and Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Health Care System Announce New Affiliation

The Mount Sinai Health System and Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Health Care System today announced a clinical collaboration aimed at providing superior health care to the residents of New York City’s northernmost borough.

  • New York
  • (February 24, 2015)

The Mount Sinai Health System and Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Health Care System today announced a clinical collaboration aimed at providing superior health care to the residents of New York City’s northernmost borough. Bronx-Lebanon is the largest not-for-profit health care system serving the south and central Bronx, with two hospital divisions; two long-term care facilities; a comprehensive psychiatry program; and BronxCare network of medical practices, including the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Center. Mount Sinai includes the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and seven campuses, including Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, which will be a key hospital partner for the collaboration.

While both organizations will remain independent, they will work together to:
• Enhance patient care by establishing new clinical programs and services across multiple disciplines, including cardiology, oncology, surgery, orthopaedics, and pediatrics.
• Extend the availability of Mount Sinai’s specialized tertiary and quaternary care to residents of the Bronx;
• Link information systems to promote quality, continuity and evaluation of care;
• Develop a robust population health enterprise, including shared resources as part of New York State’s Delivery Service Reform Incentive Program, or DSRIP, as well as a clinically integrated physician network for the delivery of high-quality, cost-efficient and accessible health care.

“We are proud to welcome Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center as an affiliate of the Mount Sinai Health System,” said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System. “Bronx-Lebanon is a remarkable institution that has shown leadership through its commitment to delivering high quality care to patients and the communities in the Bronx.  This commitment resonates with Mount Sinai’s mission and enables our teams to work together to improve care for the patients and communities we serve.”

“Our new affiliation with Mount Sinai represents an important opportunity to reinforce Bronx-Lebanon’s continuing efforts to promote health care excellence for patients,” said Miguel A. Fuentes, Jr., President and CEO, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center Health Care System. “The Mount Sinai Health System is a leader in health care, always on the cutting edge of advances in medicine and research. We are therefore eager to move forward with Mount Sinai in meeting the health care challenges of today.”

“Our new partnership with Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center will play an integral role in Mount Sinai’s population health initiative and crystalizes our ongoing commitment to delivering the highest quality of health care to New York’s diverse communities,” said Arthur A. Klein, MD, President of the Mount Sinai Health Network.

About the Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center Health Care System
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center is a major teaching hospital and health care system, fully accredited by the Joint Commission, the nation’s leading hospital accrediting authority.  It consists of two hospital divisions, a comprehensive psychiatric program, two specialized long-term care facilities, and an extensive BronxCare network, including a recently completed 9-story Health and Wellness Center for outpatients, and Life Recovery Center for chemical dependency (one of only a few such facilities in New York State), as well as the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center.  Bronx-Lebanon now provides more than one million outpatient and 141,000 ER visits.  It is also certified as a Level Three Patient Centered Medical Home (the highest level) by the National Center for Quality Assurance.  Additionally, Bronx-Lebanon’s “A-Rating” from the Leap Frog Industry Watchdog Group places it in the upper echelon of the safest hospitals in the nation, including the added distinction of being the best performing hospital in New York City.  

For more information, visit www.bronxcare.org.

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 eight 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 11 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 2024-2025.

For more information, visit https://www.mountsinai.org or find Mount Sinai on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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