The Care Center Concept: Our Vision
The Kravis Children's Hospital and the Women's Center are leaders in providing all aspects of care to children and childbearing families. This is accomplished through patient-focused care and the utilization of all resources at Mount Sinai. Outreach to the community is pivotal in the restoration and maintenance of health. Through an interdisciplinary family-centered approach, the Maternal Child Health care center provides families with care, treatment and education which enable them to return to the community and maintain health.
Our Philosophy
- A continuum of quality care, provided through the model of Patient-Focused Care.
- A caring and friendly, family-centered environment.
- An atmosphere for optimal adjustment, growth, and development of our clients and their families.
- Respect for all families, traditional and non-traditional, as families are the stabilizing unit of society.
- Primary Nursing, coordinating care through collaboration.
- Outeach to the community.
- Health education and maintenance, to our clients, their families, our community, and professional health colleagues.
- Scholarly clinical practice based upon and supportive of research.
- A fiscally responsible environment.
- Care which meets the individual cultural and spiritual needs of clients and their families.
Our Facilities and Programs
Mount Sinai's obstetrics program is the largest in Manhattan and serves a diverse population. Nurses, physicians and midwives facilitate special deliveries in our labor/delivery/recovery rooms (LDRs).
The pediatric program was the first in the nation in a general hospital. The 35-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the 16-bed Pediatric ICU care for critically ill children. The Center is among the top pediatric transplant programs in the world. There is an extensive Patient/Family Educational Department, Breastfeeding Program, School-Based Health Programs, and Community Outreach Programs. Caring, compassion and evidence-based primary nursing are the hallmarks of the practice.
The Lauder Center for Maternity Care
The Mount Sinai Hospital is pleased to announce its newest addition, the Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder Center for Maternity Care. Complimenting the outstanding, family-centered maternal-child health care for which Mount Sinai has long since been known, the Lauder Center sets a new standard for comfort in hospital-based postpartum care, integrating principles of health and well-being with spa design and various other services. For additional information, please call: 212 241-7491.
