In the midst of perhaps the very worst financial landscape seen within the past 75 years, charities all over have been experiencing a catastrophic drop in donations. But because lack knows no recession, Robert Toussie has made continued support for the Mount Sinai Medical Center an important point of business. Together with his son, Isaac Toussie, the elder Toussie has used the success of his own life as one of New York’s the most important businessman and turned it into a philanthropic campaign to help those in need by contributing large sums of money to several specialty departments at Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
“Diversified philanthropy” is the name of this game for Robert Toussie. Donations benefiting three medical specialties are made by Robert Toussie and Isaac Toussie also help an equally large number of people for more than a decade. The Toussies have helped fund research studies and clinical excellence in the fields of endocrinology, gastroenterology, and immunobiology for years, charitable giving which has helped save the lives and improve the quality of life of countless patients.
Bob Toussie’s support for the formation of the Jerome D. Waye Endoscopy Educational Center, which is part of the Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, has helped Mount Sinai Hospital reach new patients through its improved videoconferencing capabilities. This increased reach for the Educational Center’s gastroenterologists, made possible through Toussie’s continued donations, has helped Mount Sinai have a global impact in the fight against gastroenterological disorders like liver disease, colon fissures, and peptic ulcers. Robert and Isaac Toussie’s continued support for the Mount Sinai Medical Center’s endocrinology and immunobiology departments has helped with the research and treatment of disorders and diseases like diabetes, thyroid cancer, ostepoerosis, AIDS, HIV, and arthritis, among others.
The Mount Sinai Medical Center, one of several hospitals that the Toussie family supports, is comprised of Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which opened in 1968. The hospital was founded in 1852 and is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States. The venerable hospital also counts Jonas Salk, the inventor of the polio vaccine, among its famous former and current staff members. Last year, U.S. News and World Report ranked Mount Sinai as one of the best hospitals in the country in 11 specialties.
By helping, Isaac Toussie carries on the Toussie family tradition of committing to charity. Over the past ten years, this continuing concern for the community has transformed from a Robert Toussie solo endeavor to a Toussie family enterprise. Robert’s son, Isaac Toussie, fervently believes in his family’s dedication to bettering less fortunate lives, working with several non-profit organizations to help the sick, blind and poor of this country. It is beyond dispute that people numbering in the thousands have benefited from the Toussies’ medical contributions. Lives have been saved, suffering has been diminished, and illnesses have been treated and, in some cases, even cured!
About the Toussies: Robert Toussie is a corporate investor, asset buyer, entrepreneur and real estate owner who has also become quite the celebrated philanthropist, local and global. Son Isaac Toussie a national philanthropist who routinely helps the blind, the sick, the needy and widows and orphans, is also a writer, real estate investor and consultant, land developer, and business advisor.