Among the more than 6-thousand hospitals across the country, Mount Sinai is included with only two percent of U.S. hospitals to achieve the level of nursing quality required for the Magnet award.
"This award honors the exceptional compassion and expertise of our nurses," said Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Mount Sinai Medical Center and Dean of Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "Our patients and their families are the primary beneficiaries of their skill, but all of us in the Mount Sinai community benefit from having such talented colleagues."
The Magnet Recognition Program recognizes health care organizations that demonstrate excellence in nursing philosophy and practice, adherence to national standards for improving patient care, leadership and sensitivity to cultural and ethnic diversity. Applicants undergo a rigorous evaluation that includes extensive interviews and reviews of nursing services, clinical outcomes and patient care.
"The Magnet award is the highest level of recognition that an organization can receive for the quality of its nursing care," said Thomas Smith, RN, Senior Vice President For Nursing and Patient Care. "Mount Sinai nurses have earned this distinction because of their passion for always making the needs of their patients their first priority."
Magnet designation followed review of more than three thousand pages of documentation submitted by Mount Sinai, and a four-day site visit during which two ANCC appraisers visited more than 70 patient care areas, met with all levels of hospital and nursing leadership, and spoke with about 600 nurses.
According to the ANCC, the leading nursing credentialing organization in the United States, Magnet designation is widely accepted as the gold standard of patient care.
About Mount Sinai
The Mount Sinai Hospital is one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. Founded in 1852, Mount Sinai today is a 1,171-bed tertiary-care teaching facility that, along with Mount Sinai School of Medicine, comprises The Mount Sinai Medical Center.
The Mount Sinai Medical Center is world-renowned both for excellence in clinical care and as a leader in ground-breaking clinical and basic-science research, as well as for innovative approaches to medical education.
Last year, more than 47,000 people were treated at The Mount Sinai Hospital as inpatients, more than 72,000 received care in the emergency department, and the outpatient department recorded nearly 469,000 visits.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine ranks ninth among the nation's 125 medical schools in the percentage of graduates who go on to faculty positions in medical schools across the country. Mount Sinai also is in the top 25 in receipt of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants with a projected total of over $154 million during Fiscal Year 2003.