New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE) significantly grew its campus footprint over the past year, bringing to patients and the community at large an array of enhanced, premium-quality services encompassing not just ophthalmology, but urgent care for most minor illnesses and injuries as well as primary care.
Center for Refractive Solutions
With the ribbon cutting in June 2025 for the Center for Refractive Solutions (CRS), NYEE became one of the most comprehensive and innovative centers in the nation for individuals desiring to improve their vision and requiring refractive correction. That includes cataract and intraocular lens surgery, as well as refractive procedures like laser vision correction (LASIK) and the EVO Implantable Collamer Lens (ICL).
“With cataract and lens surgery, there are many options available today depending on the individual’s visual needs, lifestyles, and long-term goals,” says Paul A. Sidoti, MD, Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at NYEE. “Our specialists at CRS are prepared to sit down with patients to discuss those options and work closely with them to tailor the type of surgery and lens implant that assures the best possible outcomes.”
The Center—made possible by a generous donation from Toni and Martin T. Sosnoff—assembled a team of highly experienced ophthalmic surgeons and houses state-of-the-art corneal and ocular imaging equipment. This provides a unique opportunity for advanced imaging with more precise calculations and diagnostics. With this information, they are able to develop and customize a surgical plan that may include the latest intraocular lens platforms, such as trifocal and extended depth-of-focus lenses, as well as the new light-adjustable lens. For patients who don’t have cataracts, the best route might be LASIK, a refractive lens exchange, or an EVO ICL, which corrects vision without the need to remove any corneal tissue.
Patients also benefit from a streamlined service under a single roof at the newly renovated space at 310 East 14th Street in Lower Manhattan. “By centralizing all the necessary equipment, services, and staff, we’re able to ensure patients an efficient and thorough evaluation in just one day,” emphasizes Kira Manusis, MD, Director of CRS and Co-Director of the Cataract Service at NYEE. “And that’s a huge advantage for our many patients who lead busy lives. Today, patients have more choices than ever and we’re here to help them design their vision to fit their lifestyle.”
Ribbon-cutting ceremony held on June 4, 2025, to celebrate the opening of the Center for Refractive Solutions. From left: Anna Guller; James C. Tsai, MD; Kira Manusis, MD; Toni and Martin T. Sosnoff; Paul A. Sidoti, MD; Gennady Landa, MD; Salvatore Loiacono; and Sangyoon Jason Shin, DO
Mount Sinai-Urgent Care
The opening in April 2025 of Mount Sinai-Urgent Care, East 14th Street, on the ground floor of our main building at Second Avenue and East 14th Street also offers major advantages to lower Manhattan patients in need of urgent care.
Adults and children can now walk right in—no appointment is needed—and obtain treatment from a professional team for less serious injuries and conditions such as allergy and asthma attacks, cuts that need stitches, earaches and sinus infections, sprains and strains, urinary tract infections, and sudden eye emergencies. Individuals who require more extensive care are seamlessly referred to other specialists or facilities across the Mount Sinai Health System, including its hospital emergency departments.
The Urgent Care clinical team is closely integrated with NYEE’s Eye Clinic, allowing patients with urgent and emergent eye conditions that require immediate attention to receive specialty care any time of the day or night.
“Mount Sinai-Urgent Care is a great example of how we’re listening to the needs of the community by offering a service that people told us was critically needed,” notes James C. Tsai, MD, MBA, President of NYEE. “We’re now one of a few centers nationwide able to provide this level of eye triage and urgent care at virtually all hours. Our subspecialists are always on call and now accessible after regular hours through the Urgent Care center.”
Mount Sinai-Adult Primary Care
In another effort to ensure community access to quality-based medical care—particularly for those underserved—Mount Sinai-Adult Primary Care (formerly General Medicine Associates) relocated its internal medicine specialists to NYEE’s downtown campus in April.
The resident-run program, originally housed at the now-closed Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, will continue to help patients manage and treat chronic illnesses and maintain healthy lifestyles from its new home at NYEE. The co-location of Adult Primary Care with the NYEE ophthalmology clinics will also help our efforts to ensure that all NYEE patients have an established primary care provider. A key step in early detection and management of diseases, this effort bridges the current gap with a new referral pathway for eye clinic patients to general medicine physicians and clinics on-site—a welcome addition to the medical practices at Mount Sinai-Union Square and throughout the Health System.