Mount Sinai Health System Celebrates February's American Heart Month
In honor of American Heart Month, the Mount Sinai Health System will host free heart health fairs, health screenings, expert lectures, and heart-healthy cooking demonstrations on its hospital campuses. For more information please visit mountsinai.org/GoRed.
Mount Sinai Health System's Heart Month activities include:
The Mount Sinai Community Heart Health Fairs will include free heart health screenings for blood pressure, total cholesterol, triglyceride level, and body mass index (BMI). Experts will lead educational demonstrations focusing on nutrition and diet, diabetes, stress management, smoking cessation, yoga and other relaxation techniques. Also, free heart-healthy food tastings will be prepared by hospital chefs, and guests will receive free giveaways and goody bags.
Thursday, February 4, 2016
- Mount Sinai Brooklyn
3201 Kings Highway
Main Lobby
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Friday, February 5, 2016
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
1468 Madison Avenue
Guggenheim Pavilion, Lobby
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
- Mount Sinai Beth Israel
Phillips Ambulatory Care Center (PACC)
10 Union Square East
Second Floor
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
- Mount Sinai St. Luke's
1111 Amsterdam Avenue at 114th Street
Babcock Lobby, First Floor
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
- Mount Sinai Queens
Church of the Redeemer
30-14 Crescent Street at 30th Road
Astoria, Queens 11102
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Screening offerings: free blood pressure, body mass index (BMI), and heart health information.
Monday, February 8, 2016
- Women’s Heart New York Support Group Meetings
Group Facilitator: Sydney Fischer, MSW
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
10 Union Square East, Fourth Floor
Bogart Conference Room, Suite 4A
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Registration is required. For more information call 212-523-9663
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
- Community Blood Pressure Screening Program
Free blood pressure monitoring and medical consultations
Hamilton Senior Center
141 West 73rd Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Aves.
10:30 – 11:30 am
For more information please call 212-787-7710
Saturday, February 13, 2016
- Exercise For Heart Health Workshop
Asser Levy Recreational Center
392 Asser Levy Place at East 23rd Street and FDR Drive
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
For more information please call 212-523-9663
Monday, February 22, 2016
- Women and Heart Month Support Group Meetings
Group Facilitator: Sydney Fischer, MSW
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Phillips Ambulatory Care Center
Second Floor, Friedman Conference Room 3
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Registration is required. For more information please call 212-523-9663
February 10- March 16, 2016
- Women's Heart NY 6-Session "Heart Smart" Education Course
Free, six-session heart health program for Wednesdays: February 10, 17, and 24, and March 2, 9, and 16.
Recreation Center 54, 348 East 54th Street
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Registration is required. For more information please call 212-523-9663
Free Cholesterol and Glucose Screenings: Wednesday, February 10, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
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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