Mount Sinai Health System

The Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a Physician to cover Post-Acute Care at the New Jewish Home Skilled Nursing Facility in Manhattan. 

This is a unique opportunity to practice medicine in a close collegial setting with a flexible and supportive work environment and connection to a major academic medical center! 

The Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM) of the Mount Sinai Health System, NY, is recruiting a full-time salaried Physician to care for Post-Acute Care patients at The New Jewish Home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. This is a unique opportunity to be part of the Mount Sinai Department of Medicine, Hospitalist Division, and be primarily based at The New Jewish Home Skilled Nursing Facility. The New Jewish Home is one of the largest and most innovative providers of facility and community based Long Term Care in New York with both post-acute rehabilitation and long-term care services. Opportunities exist to collaborate with hospitalists across the Mount Sinai system on scholarly projects, to work with Geriatric fellows and medical students, and to participate in medical education, performance improvement, and research initiatives. Great work-life balance with a Monday to Friday daytime schedule! 

A medical degree with training in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine is required. Additional certification in Geriatrics and/or Palliative Medicine is not required but is preferred.

REPORTS TO: Facility Medical Director 

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (In collaboration with Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant where appropriate) 

• Completes comprehensive evaluation of all new patients. 
• Effectively and proactively manages chronic medical conditions to maximize functional and medical recovery. 
• Rapidly identifies and addresses new medical conditions that may impair functional and medical recovery. 
• Meets with interdisciplinary team for each patient at least weekly and documents progress towards goals, barriers to goals, plans to address barriers, and current discharge plan. 
• Attends scheduled patient and family meetings as necessary to ensure effective communication and discharge planning. 
• Ensures that patient goals are considered in rehabilitation planning, goal setting, and discharge planning. 
• Effectively works with patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams to meet established goals. 
• Rapidly identifies when clinical course is not progressing towards goals and effectively intervenes to correct barriers, communicate with team and patient, and work with team and patient to establish new goals as needed. 
• Ensures seamless care transitions by direct physician to physician communication for community, facility, or hospital discharges. 
• Effectively participates in Post-Acute and facility performance improvement activities. 
• Completes scheduled “on call” work requirements.
• Ensures that advance care planning is completed and documented using MOLST and other relevant documentation. 
• Ensures that all medical care follows accepted principles of Geriatric and Palliative care. 
• Complies with all applicable Federal, State and local laws, regulations, and requirements as well as facility/agency specific policies and procedures. 
• Participates in precepting and mentoring medical trainees including Geriatrics fellows and medical students.
• Works toward defined clinical metrics as determined by the medical department.
• Compensation range from 180K to 280K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits)

Qualifications:

• Medical Degree from an Accredited University
• New York State Medical License
• Board Eligible or Board Certified in Internal Medicine or Family Medicine
• Additional certification in Geriatrics and/or Palliative Medicine preferred
• Committed to the Mount Sinai Health System and the communities we serve
• Excellent communication, bedside manner, and organizational skills
• A strong work ethic and desire to participate in team-oriented, performance-driven Health System

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Please specify Job Title of interest and send CV with Cover Letter to:

Alex Cano

Executive Director Physician Recruitment

Mount Sinai Health System

Alex.cano@mountsinai.org

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by: 

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.

We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!

“About the Mount Sinai Health System:

Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”

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