Personal Factors & Health

We offer a variety of programs aimed at everyone in the Mount Sinai Health System:

  • Mount Sinai Calm: This program supports the Mount Sinai Health System community with self-care, stress management, and work-life balance programs. We provider and confidential consultations are available in person or by phone as well as classes in yoga, mindfulness, tai chi, and music to unwind. 
  • Mount Sinai Wellness: This personalized service provides physical health wellness programs such as Mount Sinai Fit and Mount Sinai Calm. We provide information about nutrition, exercise, diabetes, diabetes prevention services, and primary care wellness visits. Email Mount Sinai for more information.
  • Spiritual Care and Education: Our chaplains provide interfaith spiritual care for various religions. Whatever your faith, culture, or beliefs, faith, we offer healing, hope, and comfort. You can also enjoy a Chi Cart with tea and aromatherapy and a quiet, safe space for self-care. Call 212-241-7262 for more information.
  • The Mount Sinai Recreation Office: Look here for discounts to many New York City cultural events, such as Broadway and off-Broadway shows, movies, and sporting events. You can also get reduced prices on amusement parks, restaurants, health clubs and spas, hotels, cell phone services, and car rentals. Use your Mount Sinai Health System ID to access these benefits. Call 212-241-6660 for assistance.
  • Paws & Play: In partnership with the Child Life and Creative Arts Therapy Department, we provide well-being and resilience opportunities for staff, faculty, and trainees. C to make arrangements.
  • Lactation Facilities: If you are nursing, please visit the lactation services website to find a pod or room near you. 
  • The Ombuds Office: This confidential, independent resource is geared to students, trainees, and faculty. Led by Deborah Marin, MD, we help ensure fair and equitable conflict resolutions in workplace and educational settings.
  • The Office of Diversity and Inclusion: We support the Mount Sinai Health System in living up to our principles of diversity and inclusion for excellence and innovation. Led by Gary Butts, MD, Dean for Diversity Programs, Policy, and Community Affairs, this office champions a diverse workforce, strives to create a multicultural environment, and fosters an inclusive setting. 
  • The Office of Gender Equity in Science and Medicine: We aim to assess and address the climate and structures within the Mount Sinai Health System. The Office looks to build community while working to address and strengthen policies and programs related to bias and mistreatment, compensation equity, recruitment, retention and promotion, leadership development, and family support. 

Mount Sinai Employee Benefits Office: We help you enroll or update your health insurance and other employee benefits. These benefits include medical, prescription, dental, vision, TRIP (transit/parking), and flexible spending accounts (health care/dependent care). Call 1-866-700-6762 for more information.

We offer peer support services through ICARE Peer Support. This team offers peer support to those who have experienced a particularly stressful work-related clinical incident. Call them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 212-241-8989. They will return your call.

Faculty members can participate in a variety of workshops, including:

  • Well-being and Resilience Workshops: We can help departments offer well-being workshops in narrative medicine, mindfulness, and facilitated discussion to your faculty members. We help you identify needs and provide funding for expert facilitators. For more information, fill out this request form. Upon submission, we will contact you for next steps.
  • Resilience Workshops: The Center for Stress, Resilience, and Personal Growth provides resilience workshops for faculty, students, and staff to help meet life’s challenges, big and small. 
  • Office of Faculty Development: We provide career development services including workshops, one-on-one meetings, and collaboration initiatives. We also offer guidance and resources in mentoring, becoming leaders, and collaboration. 

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We offer a range of programs for residents and clinical fellows, including:

  • Facilitated Discussions: Young doctors experience an enormous number of stressors, including difficult patients, death and dying, and the prospect of medical errors. A space to have a discussion about these emotional issues, guided by an expert facilitator, can provide a great outlet for processing these challenging events. It can also reduce burnout. Complete the request form to organize a session or email owbr@mssm.edu for more information.
  • Mindfulness Training: We  teach mindfulness practices to help you handle the stresses of the training environment and increase your overall sense of well-being. Please complete the request form to organize a session or email owbr@mssm.edu for more information.
  • Narrative Medicine: Research shows that attention to literature and the arts helps develop and nurture skills of observation, analysis, empathy, adaptability, and self-reflection. To arrange a workshop, please complete the request form.

Programs geared to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows include:

  • Mindful Meetups: Our monthly meetings enable you to meet with peers to discuss issues that may affect your well-being, under the guidance of a social worker. Email Basil Hanss, PhD, Associate Dean for Graduate School Well-Being and Resilience, for more information.
  • Office of Career Services and Strategy: This office advises graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in all aspects of career development and planning. We help you reduce the stress of planning for the next career steps by developing the skills and strategies you need.

Mount Sinai Well-Being and Mental Health Resources