FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ilana Nikravesh Mount Sinai Press Office 212-241-9200 [email protected] Mount Sinai Expands Center for Post-COVID Care to Serve Patients in East Harlem and South Bronx $5 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will enhance long COVID care for underserved minority groups, community outreach, and research Newswise — (New York, NY – July 1, 2024) - Mount Sinai has expanded its Center for Post-COVID Care—the first and largest center of its kind—to another location to better serve patients in East Harlem and the South Bronx. The new site will help meet the needs of a growing number of patients with long-term symptoms from COVID-19 needing access to world-leading care. It will also enhance long COVID care for minority populations living in underserved communities who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, but underdiagnosed with long COVID.
The new location is at Mount Sinai-Internal Medicine Associates at 17 East 102nd Street. “The South Bronx and East Harlem communities were some of the hardest hit during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Long COVID is likely much more prevalent than many realize in this population and we know it can be extremely debilitating.
We know these patients are out there—now it’s a matter of reaching them and getting them the care they need,” says Rachel Engelberg, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who cares .