Mt. Sinai Financial Problems??

[premed2]

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I applied to Mt. Sinai, but recently have been hearing a lot of things about their bad finanical situation...anybody else no what I'm talking about? I'm thinking about not continuing my application with them as their finanical issues may affect my education. What do you think?😕

 

[Paws]

I think you'd probably still get a good education but you might pull your hair out with the hospital and administrative, etc stuff. Persoanlly, I think Mt Sinai is going down the financial drain - to put it delicately. I have been really shocked at the poor quality of services and the level of incompetence and general weirdness I have seen at the site.

I tried to work there and after a month I still had no phone, no computer, and no email account and the daily struggle to get anywhere with these very simple issues was making me insane. I just quit. IMHO, I think it's one of the worst hospitals in NY but don't quote me on that ...

 

[PatriciaNg]

I have been working at a research lab in the school of medicine at Mount Sinai for over a year. Although there has been budget cuts, but it does not interfere with the medical school budget. I do not see any changes in the quality of education there. I am not sure about the situation at the hospital, but I know the medical students are very happy and satisfy there.

 

[Marina9]

PatriciaNg, which lab? I worked at a neurobiology lab on the 9th floor last year.

 

[PatriciaNg]

I work in a human genetics lab on the 14th floor.

 

[Paws]

This is probably right about the difference between the hospital and the school; I don't know why the main hospital is so disorganized and run down except that maybe they're suffering the way many other hospitals are from managed care and whatnot. I think their former president and CEO left to head up Aetna, so you know there was some strange bed-hopping going on there. My sense was that there was just something not right or settled, about the hospital.

The Continuum hospitals like St Lukes-Roosevelt, (Columbia) and Beth Israel (Einstein) on the other hand seem to be doing just fine, so go figure.