About the Role
The Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a physician to cover Post-Acute Care and Long Term Care at The New Jewish Home Skilled Nursing Facility in New York City. This role offers a unique opportunity to join the Mount Sinai Department of Medicine, Hospitalist Division, and be based at The New Jewish Home. Enjoy a great work-life balance with a Monday to Friday 9 am – 5 pm daytime schedule.
Responsibilities
- Completes comprehensive admission evaluations 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 arise.
- Effectively works with patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams to meet established goals.
- Attends scheduled patient and family meetings as necessary to ensure effective communication and discharge planning.
- Identifies when clinical course is not progressing towards goals and intervenes to correct barriers, improve communication, 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.
- Ensures that advance care planning is completed and documented using MOLST and other relevant documentation.
- Complies with all applicable Federal, State and local laws, regulations, and requirements as well as facility/agency specific policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Physician needed for Post-Acute Care and Long Term Care coverage.
Location
- New York City
- Upper West Side of Manhattan
Work Type
- Full-time
- Daytime schedule
About the Company
- The Mount Sinai Health System is a leading integrated healthcare system providing comprehensive medical care to patients in the New York metropolitan area.
- The Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM) is part of the Mount Sinai Department of Medicine.
- The New Jewish Home is one of the largest and most innovative providers of facility and community based Long Term Care in New York, offering both post-acute rehabilitation and long-term care services.
