Mount Sinai Produces Video of Medical Team’s Efforts to Save Lives in Haiti
Nearly 30 medical center personnel rushed to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to deliver aid after news of the earthquake reached the United States.
A video documenting relief efforts by The Mount Sinai Medical Center during the crucial first weeks of the devastating January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti is now available for viewing.
The video captures the pain and suffering of the Haitian people, the massive destruction of their capital, and the many medical successes of the Mount Sinai team. The team of 28, led by surgeon Ernest Benjamin, MD, Chief of the Division of Critical Care in the Department of Surgery and Director of the Surgical ICU, tended to critically injured patients for 10 days, performing more than 80 surgical procedures and treating more than 200 children and adults.
Mount Sinai also delivered 4,000 pounds of urgently needed medications and medical supplies.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of few medical schools embedded in a hospital in the United States. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 15 institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institute of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The school received the 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2009, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital among the nation’s top 20 hospitals based on reputation, patient safety, and other patient-care factors. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 530,000 outpatient visits took place.
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