Mount Sinai Hospital

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Mount Sinai Hospital

• By
• Rebecca Brockschmidt
• Koji Thompson

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History of Mount Sinai

• Mount Sinai was established to help the deaf
  community communicate.
• Mount Sinai is funded by charities over the
  country and our government.

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Departments

• Mount Sinai has many departments but one famous
  one is the Deaf Hard of Hearing located in
  Psychiatry Behavioral Health Ward.

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FEES

• Most of the fees are covered by the patients
  insurance.( HMO, PPO, Medicare, and Mediaid.)
• Anyone who does not have insurance only have to
  pay on a scale close to fifteen dollars.

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How the hearing benefit

• Most people think that Mount Sinai is just a
  hospital for the deaf but, what they dont know
  is that anyone hearing or deaf can still go for
  any medical needs that have a problem with.

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Obstacles

• A main obstacle for Mount Sinai is their
  misinterpretation of the patients diagnosis.
• As many as 50,000 deaf and hard-of-hearing people
  live in the metropolitan Chicago area, so Sinais
  biggest obstacle is their Deaf Access Program.

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Deaf Access

• Mount Sinais doctors are trained to be a fluent
  signer for any deaf patients they may have.
• Sinai has made a phenomenal commitment to the
  Deaf Access Program. The entire system supports
  devotion to patients and to making the program
  work for them.
• Sinai's Deaf Access Program is one of very few
  programs nationwide that fully meet the needs of
  deaf and hard-of-hearing adults and children. The
  Deaf Access Program offers a broad range of
  medical, mental health, and support services to
  deaf and hard-of-hearing patients.
• Sinai makes every effort to accommodate deaf and
  hard-of-hearing patients and their families.
  Public TTYs are located in Mount Sinai's
  emergency department and lobby. All televisions
  are equipped with closed captioning. Portable
  TTYs, telephone amplifiers, and other assistive
  listening devices are available on request.