The Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD Archives and Mount Sinai Records Management Program provide the following services:

• Answering questions about the history of the Mount Sinai Health System entities
• Assisting researchers and scholars in using the Archives' collections
• Digitizing archival material and providing online access to the digital collections
• Providing images for use in presentations, publications, and displays
• Reviewing files to ascertain appropriate retention periods, allowing non-current records of little value to be discarded, saving storage space and costs
• Serving as a liaison between off-site storage vendors and Mount Sinai departments to ensure smooth service
• Preparing outreach efforts, such as exhibits of archival material, blog posts, lobby slides, walking tours of campus, etc., to make the past more readily available to the entire Mount Sinai community

For people who are not associated with Mount Sinai, some of these services may have fees associated with them. Please review our fee schedule for information about potential costs.

We collect a variety of material to document how the Health System institutions carry out their missions of patient care, education, research, and community service. Records are preserved in physical and digital format. The following is a partial list of the types of records that the Archives collects:

• Records of the Boards of Mount Sinai corporations, including agendas, minutes, correspondence, and reports
• Records of the Offices of the President of the Mount Sinai Health System, the Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and the Presidents of Health System hospitals, including subject files, reports, correspondence, and minutes
• Accreditation reports and supporting documentation
• Materials documenting patient care, including nursing policies and procedure manuals
• Information regarding labor relations, including handbooks, orientation manuals, employee recognition programs, union contracts, and policy manuals
• Departmental records, including subject files, committee minutes, memoranda, lecture notes, syllabi, policy and procedure manuals, and the office files of the department head/chair
• Minutes, memoranda, publications and reports of all major academic, hospital and administrative committees, including the medical boards, their subcommittees, ad hoc committees, and search committees
• Annual budgets and audit reports
• Planning documents
• Records of the Marketing, Public Affairs and Development offices, including fundraising publications, internal publications, press releases, biographical files, and donor files
• Records of student organizations and activities
• All extant records of now defunct organizations, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel, The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing, the Roosevelt Hospital School of Nursing, the Woman’s Hospital in the State of New York, the Neustadter Convalescent Center, the Mount Sinai Foundation, Astoria General Hospital, and Western Queens Community Hospital
• Audiovisual materials documenting the development of Mount Sinai, such as photographs, negatives, sound recordings, slides, films, and video tapes in analog and digital form

We are committed to making research material available to users on equal terms of access. This is in accordance with the standard professional policy on access adopted jointly by the Society of American Archivists and the American Library Association.

Equal access does not mean that all materials are open to research use. Our responsibility is to balance the researcher's need for access with the need for confidentiality of the persons and the institutions whose activities are reflected therein. Please review the General Archive Access Policy for more information.

A policy on access to Personal Health Information in the Archives, Policy ACS-H.42, has been written outlining how the Archives will protect against unwarranted access to this restricted information. To acknowledge understanding that even unrestricted records may contain protected health information, researchers from outside the Mount Sinai Health System must also read and sign the Archives Access Agreement Form.