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Teresa A. Soriano, MD, MPH, Hastings Center receives Award for Excellence in End of Life
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New York, NY (PRWEB) January 17, 2012
Teresa A. Soriano, MD, MPH, director of the Mount Sinai Medical Host Program, and Associate Professor of Medicine and assistant professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, was awarded the prestigious Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician to improve patient care at the end of life.
Dr. Soriano is one of only three doctors early in their careers in the country recognized for its commitment and contribution to the field of practical research and clinical work. You will receive the award during a ceremony on Mount Sinai.
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Dr. Soriano? s leadership, the host of the Doctors at Mount Sinai? one of the nation? s academic home more primary and palliative care program? has created a safety net for more than 1200 patients at home and comfortable with palliative care at home.
“The success of the program to visit several doctors in the delivery of end of life in a primary health care difficult is the result of Dr. Soriano?’s reason, his passion for the care of evil, and his deep understanding of ‘ importance of the person in the patient? said David Muller, MD, chairman of the Department of Medical Education, medical school dean and associate professor of medicine.? If the patient’s bedside, the student a sense of caring for someone difficult, at the end of life, or lobbying the state legislature, Dr. Soriano put his intelligence, his passion for justice, interpersonal skills and a willingness to do the job.
Since 1995, Mount Sinai Medical Program called has provided compassionate care for the elderly or in patients who are unable to leave their homes. The award-winning program is a collaboration of the Department of Samuel L. Bronfman Department of Medicine and Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Brookdale. Throughout Manhattan, the home team of medical doctors, nurses, social workers and administrative staff provide comprehensive primary care and palliative care to a disadvantaged segment of the population? Adults at home, made up of geriatric patients and those with psychiatric disorders, complex and incurable neurological disease. The team is also for families and health professionals to provide emotional support and advice.
? It ‘was so rewarding to see so many patients to benefit from basic services and palliative care that provides the visiting physicians, and expose students and housestaff in this work? said Dr. Soriano. ? I am honored to be recognized by the Centre for Hastings and Cunniff-Dixon Foundation for the difference we make in the lives of patients and their families.?
Hastings Center Cunniff-Dixon Physician Award is provided by the Cunniff-Dixon Foundation, whose mission is to enrich the doctor-patient relationship in old age, in collaboration with The Hastings Center, a bioethics research institute has been pioneering work on the end of life decision-making. The application and selection process has been given to the Duke Institute on end of life care. Cunniff-Dixon Foundation was founded in 2005 by Matthew A. Baxter in memory of his wife, Carley Cunniff, who died of breast cancer, and in recognition of his physician, Dr. Peter S. Dixon, who allowed him to die peaceful death at home with his family and loved ones.
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Founded in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of the few medical schools integrated in a hospital in the United States. He has more than 3400 teachers in 32 departments and 15 institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools, and the National Institute of Health and the financing of U. S. News & World Report. The school was awarded the 2009 Spencer Foreman for extraordinary service to the community of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1171 bed teaching tertiary and quaternary care and one of the oldest in the largest and most respected voluntary hospitals in the nation. U. S. News & World Report regularly ranks at Mount Sinai Hospital among the best hospitals in the country based on its reputation, patient safety and other factors of patient care. 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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