Talk:Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)

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A few things going on here: many of the "sources" are Mt Sinai's own press releases and internal newsletter type publications, this would seem to degrade neutrality. Four of the "firsts" are self-sourced - for example - see http://www.mountsinai.org/about-us/who-we-are/firsts for the Mt Sinai "source". None of these firsts are verifiably sourced on the Mt Sinai document. In addition, the "Reputation" section seems misplaced (why not History first?) and contains some biased interpretations of certain awrds and findings. E.g. "In 2010, the New York State Department of Health named Mount Sinai Hospital the safest place for a patient receiving angioplasty" is then sourced to Mt Sinai's own published interpretations of an old NYSDOH report on PCI, a report which has been updated four times since (https://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/diseases/cardiovascular/). In all the article is mostly cut and pasted from the public relations/marketing copy available on the Mt Sinai .org Web site - recommend removing anything from reputation that isn't current, removing subjective/opinion phrases, and moving "History" to lead the article with "Reputation lower down the page". Jazmichaelking (talk) 20:17, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

FRIST!!!! talk page section about the "firsts" list
I'm kind of uncomfortable with that entire "firsts" list. (It's in "scare quotes", so you know it's "encyclopedic"!) Wikipedia is not for PR and not a statbook, and compiling a list of dubious "frist!" claims is a task better suited for the hospital's own website. In fact, their site already contains just such a list, which is cited four times in the section. I surveyed a half-dozen or more major hospital articles at random, and none contained any section similar to this one except the article for New York University School of Medicine, which is (tellingly) affiliated with Mount Sinai. That section had already been tagged as unencyclopedic back in 2009.

Of the 21 bullet-point items in this article's "FRIST!!" list, three are sourced from that Mount Sinai webpage, seven (33%) are uncited (although some are wikilinked to articles which may provide supporting references), and two cite a book written by the hospital's former chief surgeon that opens with the words, "It is the men and women of The Mount Sinai Hospital, their unique characters, and especially their accomplishments, that this book celebrates" — hardly NPOV. Others cite articles written by Mount Sinai staff, or (on a broken link) titled "an interview with" a staff physician. All of this amounts to thinly-veiled reliance on primary sources.

I don't doubt that Mount Sinai has accomplished many great things in its long history, and that they have often been at the forefront of medical innovation in many areas of research. Claims to being "first" across the finish line are given great weight in the academic and scientific communities, for a number of reasons. I just don't think it's Wikipedia's job to parrot such self-promotion. - FeRD_NYC (talk) 10:26, 25 November 2014 (UTC)


 * So, what you're basically saying is that this should be removed? Epicgenius (talk) 17:05, 10 December 2014 (UTC)


 * In my view and in its current form, I do, Epicgenius. But I raised the issue here, and provided links to the appropriate policy, in an effort to gauge consensus and open the floor to discussion on how the content should be dealt with. Do you agree that it should be removed? Disagree? Have any ideas for how the section could be improved to make it encyclopedic content? – FeRD_NYC (talk) 03:00, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

List of notable deaths
This subject has been discussed, and a consensus was reached that we don't do such lists. See Talk:Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital. BMK (talk) 23:34, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I have started an RfC here. BMK (talk) 05:34, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Reputation section
This section was half commented-out and all tagged for POV/advert.

There are those issues with it, especially with regard to extraordinary claims of "firsts" and other things that are not very well sourced, and strong, independent sourcing is needed for such claims.


 * Reputation==


 * Awards and recognition
 * In 2016, Mount Sinai Hospital was named to U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll, ranking 15th out of nearly 5,000 hospitals in the country. It was ranked #8 in Cardiology & Heart Surgery, #7 in Gastroenterology and GI Surgery, #3 in Geriatrics, #12 in Neurology and Neurosurgery, and #11 in Nephrology.  It achieved high rankings in Cancer (#38), Ear Nose & Throat (#20), Diabetes & Endocrinology (#11), and Urology (#29).
 * Mount Sinai Medical Center was named to the U.S. News & World Report America's Best Hospitals Honor Roll, ranking 14th out of nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide. Mount Sinai was nationally ranked in 12 of 16 specialties, including #2 in geriatrics, #7 in gastroenterology, and #10 in heart & heart surgery. Other honors included high rankings for cancer (#42), diabetes & endocrinology (#14), ear, nose & throat (#11), gynecology (#25), nephrology (#35), neurology & neurosurgery (#15), rehabilitation (#12), and urology (#29).
 * New York Magazine's inaugural "Best Hospitals" list ranked Mount Sinai Medical Center as #2 for overall best hospital, #3 for emergency care, #3 for pediatrics, #4 for ENT, #3 for psychiatry, #3 for cancer, #3 for cardiac care, #1 for digestive disorders, #5 for orthopedics, #2 for OB-GYN, and #3 for neurology/neurosurgery.
 * New York Magazine named 129 Mount Sinai physicians to its “Best Doctors” list, more than any individual hospital in New York City.
 * In 2012, Mount Sinai Medical Center was awarded the HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award of Excellence for use of health information technology.
 * In 2010, the New York State Department of Health named Mount Sinai Hospital the safest place for a patient receiving angioplasty.
 * In 2009, The Scientist magazine ranked Mount Sinai School of Medicine 15th overall in their “Best Places to Work in Academia” survey.
 * In 2009, the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence was awarded to Mount Sinai – the first full-service hospital in New York City to achieve redesignation. Only six percent of hospitals in the nation have received Magnet designation, and only two percent have received redesignation.
 * In 2008, Mount Sinai Medical Center received the Public & Community Service Emmy Award presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).
 * In 2008, Mount Sinai was recognized for improved performance in Thomson Reuters' "100 Top Hospitals" list. The Mount Sinai Medical Center, as a major teaching hospital, was the only hospital in Manhattan, New York to be awarded this high honor.
 * In 2006, the American Society for Bariatric Surgery named Mount Sinai a "Surgery Center of Excellence."
 * In 2006, Mount Sinai and its advertising agency, DeVito/Verdi, took home the highest honors at the 23rd Annual Healthcare Advertising Awards. The campaign was awarded top prize in the Large Hospitals Group for three different categories: Magazine, Billboard and Radio.
 * In 2004, Mount Sinai Medical Center hired New York ad agency, Devito/Verdi, to rebuild Mount Sinai's reputation as one of the leading academic medical centers in the country and raise awareness of innovation and medical advancements.


 * Firsts at the hospital


 * Medical firsts

A significant number of diseases were first described at Mount Sinai Hospital in the last 160+ years, including Brill's disease, Buerger's disease, Churg-Strauss disease, collagen disease, Crohn's disease, eosinophilic granuloma of bone, glomus jugulare tumor, Libman-Sacks endocarditis, Moschcowitz disease, polymyalgia rheumatica, and Tay-Sachs disease.

Other "firsts" include:


 * First textbook in geriatrics (1914), and first Department of Geriatrics in a U.S. Medical School
 * First American textbook on thoracic surgery (1925)
 * First to describe concept behind TB skin testing (Shwartzman phenomenon)
 * First liver transplant (New York State) (1988)
 * First to develop concept of subcellular pathology
 * First to link cigarettes and asbestos to cancer
 * First in U.S. to use platinum to treat ovarian cancer
 * First to develop particular in vitro fertilization technique to assist sperm in egg cell penetration
 * First to identify marker now used to identify risk for preterm birth
 * First to combine radiation and chemotherapy to treat ovarian and breast cancer
 * First to create a genetically engineered vaccine (for influenza) (1969)
 * First to identify the gene for Marfan Syndrome, an often fatal connective tissue disorder.
 * First to chemically induce cancer cells to return to normal patterns of development
 * First to pioneer the use of stapes mobilization operation to treat particular kinds of deafness
 * First use of kidney dialysis in the U.S. (1948)
 * First to establish an artificial kidney center in New York City
 * First successful use of a cardiac stress test
 * First to perform a blood transfusion in a fetus
 * First to establish a diabetic prenatal clinic in New York City
 * First to perform a jaw transplant in New York State and first jaw transplant ever to combine donor jaw with bone marrow from the patient
 * First to receive a cardiogram transmitted across the country via telephone wire

Timeline of other significant events

 * 1852 – Hospital chartered as "The Jews' Hospital" in New York.
 * 1855 – “The Jews’ Hospital” opens for patients on June 5.
 * 1866 – To free itself of racial or religious distinction, The Jews' Hospital changes it name to "The Mount Sinai Hospital."
 * 1872 – First women appointed to professional positions.
 * 1886 – The Eye and Ear Service is created; Dr. Josephine Walter, the first American woman to serve a formal residency in a general hospital, is granted a diploma.
 * 1908 – Dr. Rueben Ottenberg is the first to perform blood transfusions with routine compatibility test and to point out that blood groups are hereditary.
 * 1919 – Dr. I.C. Rubin introduces the use of peruterine insufflation of the fallopian tubes for the diagnosis and treatment of sterility in women.
 * 1928 – Dr. Moses Swick develops a method for introducing radio-opaque media into the blood stream for visualization of the urinary tract.
 * 1932 – Crohn's Disease, a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine, is identified by Drs. Burrill Crohn, Leon Ginzburg and Gordon D. Oppenheimer.
 * 1938 – The nation’s second blood bank is created.
 * 1953 – The Jack Martin Respirator Center admits its first polio patients.
 * 1962 – Dr. Arthur Grishman receives the first medical data, a cardiogram, transmitted successfully via the telephone lines.
 * 1963 – The New York State Board of Regents grants a charter for the establishment of a school of medicine.
 * 1968 – The Graduate School of Biological Sciences admits its first students.
 * 1974 – The Adolescent Health Center is established – the first primary care program in New York designed specifically for the needs of adolescents.
 * 1982 – The Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development is created – the first such department in an American medical school.
 * 1986 – Doctors perform the first blood transfusion into the vein of an unborn fetus.
 * 1988 – Mount Sinai performs the first liver transplant in New York State.
 * 1989 – The Center for Excellence in Youth Education is established, growing from other youth outreach programs that began at Mount Sinai in 1968.
 * 1992 – The Department of Human Genetics is established.
 * 1998 – Recanati/Miller Transplantation Unit opens.
 * 2006 – Mount Sinai Heart opens, a combination of clinicians, researchers and educators working to provide an integrated approach to cardiac care.
 * 2011 – The first center for chronic fatigue syndrome in a major medical center and medical school in the United States is established.
 * 2012 – Mount Sinai Hospital opened New York City's First Emergency Room for geriatrics patients.
 * 2012 – It received an advanced certification from The Joint Commission for excellence in palliative care.
 * 2013 – It became the first hospital in New York State to receive Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification.

-- Jytdog (talk) 17:00, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

Areas of concentration
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 * Areas of concentration

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