On Oct. 4, Mt. Sinai Health System announced the opening, at its newly renovated Mt. Sinai Union Square, of a state-of-the-art, full-service urgent-care center, including pediatric care, which will feature daytime, evening and weekend hours.
The renovation of the 10 Union Square East facility and creation of the urgent-care center there are part of Mt. Sinai’s $500 million transformation of services south of 34th St., also to include a new Mt. Sinai Beth Israel hospital, with an advanced emergency department, at E. 13th St. and Second Ave.
“The healthcare model we are creating Downtown will ensure the community has access to the proper care they need, as well as to world-class specialists,” said Dr. Kenneth L. Davis, Mt. Sinai Health System president and C.E.O. “With the opening of Union Square Urgent Care, we are taking one step closer to building our unified, holistic network of services to serve the needs of the community today and tomorrow.”
Kelly Cassano, a doctor of orthopedic surgery and chief of ambulatory care at Mt. Sinai Downtown, said, “At our new urgent-care center, patients will have access to acute-care services on an outpatient basis, many of which would otherwise require an emergency room visit. With primary-care services and more than 30 specialty practices within the same building and a full-service emergency room a few blocks away at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel, the urgent-care center will bridge full integration of services for the patient.”
The urgent-care center is staffed by board-certified emergency medicine doctors. It will treat everything from asthma and allergies to fevers and flu, sprains and strains, broken fingers and toes, to stomach ailments.
Mt. Sinai is currently doing a “My Mount Sinai” marketing campaign that includes stories of patients who received care at Mt. Sinai’s Downtown locations. The ads will appear in the Union Square subway station through October.
One ad features Donna Tookes, 62, a breast cancer survivor. Tookes was treated at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel and was in a clinical trial for a new scalp-cooling treatment to reduce the likelihood of hair loss.
“I want others to know about the life-saving and life-changing work that is being done there,” Tookes said of being in the ad campaign.
Four years after treatment, Tookes has no signs of cancer, and the hair-preservation technology has since received final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
