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Centres of Excellence
Mount Sinai's Centres of Excellence formally link departments to improve patient and family-centred care initiatives and advance our academic mandate. This model builds on the Hospital’s existing strengths and creates interprofessional groups positioned to strategically respond to changes in the health care environment.
We are pioneering a structure where clinicians and scientists work even more collaboratively to improve patient care, expedite new treatments and discoveries, and bring therapies from the research bench to the patient bedside.
Our centres include:
Lawrence and Frances Bloomberg Centre for Women’s and Infants’ Health
Mount Sinai Hospital has the largest, most comprehensive Women’s and Infants’ Health academic program in Canada, ranked among the top six Women’s and Infants’ Health Centres in the world.
Our Frances Bloomberg Centre of Excellence in Women’s and Infants’ health offers a continuity of care that covers the spectrum from general obstetrics to gynaecology, from high-risk obstetrics and care of the fetus and newborns, to infertility, urinary incontinence and menopause.
And, with some 6,500 babies born here annually, we are also one of the country’s busiest birthing centres.
Christopher Sharp Centre for Surgery & Oncology
Although predominantly a centre for surgical and medical oncology, this Centre of Excellence is both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, providing all pre and post-surgical care for patients including assessments, diagnoses, radiology and follow-ups as well as patient and family counseling. It also includes ophthalmology, otolaryngology, urology and dentistry.
Centre for Acute and Chronic Medicine
The largest Centre of Excellence in Mount Sinai, this is not only the Hospital’s 24-hour open door to the community through the Schwartz/Reisman Emergency Centre, it is where most of the care for a broad range of patients is actually provided. This Centre deals with non-surgical treatment, from the beginning through to the end of life. It is one of the busiest and briskest areas of the Hospital, and encompasses cardiology, family medicine, geriatrics, psychiatry, and critical care.
Centre for Laboratory Medicine and Infection Control
An internationally-recognized hub of researchers and educators, the Centre of Excellence in Laboratory Medicine and Infection Control has two distinct departments that support every clinical unit across Mount Sinai Hospital:
Laboratory Medicine
- Works to understand how disease comes about
- Focuses on identifying diseases both genetically and genomically as early as possible in the progress of the disease
- Collaborates with scientists in both the public and private sector to develop methodologies to both prevent and treat disease
- At the core of this unit is a multidisciplinary academic group which, for its size, has an established global reputation for its advances in laboratory medicine in the world
Infection Control
- Works to ensure and maintain patient safety by devising and monitoring strategies to prevent the
occurrence of hospital infections - One of the first Centres in Canada to develop a program to prevent the spread of antimicrobial resistant organisms in hospitals
- Helps ensure Mount Sinai has the lowest infection rate for these organisms in the country
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
The Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, affiliated with the University of Toronto, was established in 1985. It is one of the world’s leading centres in biomedical research, and one of Mount Sinai Hospital’s Centres of Excellence.
Research is an integral component of all the Centres of Excellence, and Principal Investigators from the Lunenfeld also serve as Scientific Co-Chairs on each of the four other Centres.