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Leading Mount Sinai
Queens into a new age
Queens is blessed with
several world-class
hospitals serving our
communities. I’ve had the
pleasure of getting to know
three of the women running
them: Susan Browning at
Northwell LIJ in Forest Hills,
Jaclyn Mucaria at NewYork-
Presbyterian Queens and
now I am delighted to write
about Caryn Schwab,
who runs Mount Sinai
Queens.
Caryn has a long
and distinguished
30-year career,
which began with
her serving for
many years under
great leaders
whom I admire,
both Mayor Ed
Koch whom she
served as health
care advisor and
Stan Brezenoff
who recently ran
the city’s Health
and Hospitals
Corporation.
Fortunately for us,
she made her way to
Mount Sinai when they
took over the community
hospital known as Astoria
General, renamed it and
began investing in it.
And did they ever! The most
recent effort is the building of
the $175 million Ambulatory
Pavilion that nearly tripled
the size of the Queens campus.
It’s a sparkling, six-story,
140,000-square-foot pavilion
that features the stateof
the-art Stavros Niarchos
Foundation Emergency
Room.
With a broad smile, Caryn
shared with me that it’s so
successful, there is a need to
expand it. In fact, when we
met, she had just been told
that 12 people were waiting
for beds because the hospital
was full.
The new building is a classic
example of “you build it and
they will come!” Not only has
the hospital grown, but so has
the community and its confidence
in the superbly trained,
world-class doctors she has
brought to Queens.
The multi-specialty physicians
are on the faculty of the
Icahn School of Medicine and
in Queens, so our community
has access to the experienced
physicians at its “sister” hospital
in Manhattan.
Caryn, the executive director,
said with pride, “Now our
patients can get world-class
medical care and can stay in
their neighborhood.”
When I asked her about the
opportunity to provide outpatient
services in other neighborhoods,
she told me about
the hospital’s site in Forest
Hills and Jackson Heights.
And, she glowed when she
told me
that her hospital had
received the prestigious magnet
designation, considered
the highest recognition of
nursing excellence from
the American Nurses
Credentialing Center
-- the only hospital in
Queens to have been
selected.
Under her leadership,
the hospital
also has achieved
the highly regarded
Joint Commission
of New York State
Department of
Health’s designation
as a Primary
Stroke Center, making
it again the only one in
Queens.
She has forged a strong bond
with the community and has
made strides in outreach programs
like health screenings,
educational lectures and workshops.
Both the community and the
hospital have seen the rising
tide of growth and improvement.
As has been said,
“They’ve come a long way,
baby,” and Caryn Schwab has
lots to be proud of in making
that growth possible.
Chinese American Hotel Association Meets
Anticipating the new archway to the
Chinese community planned for
Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, and to discuss
another gala for Chinese American Hotel
Association members and friends, we gathered
at Vivo! In Bayside.
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Among those seated are Terry Tang, Henry Wong, Wayne Moy, Young Cheung, Charles Chang and Charles Chan and
Tonia Cimino.