Physician - Service Chief/Geriatrics and Extended Care

Job Title

The position is located at the St. Albans Campus of the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System. VA New York Harbor provides care to eligible Veterans via three medical centers and two community-based outpatient clinics. The Margaret Cochran VA Campus is a high complexity facility located in Manhattan with a major educational affiliation with the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. The Brooklyn Campus provides acute inpatient medical and surgical services with a major affiliation with SUNY-Health Science Center - Brooklyn. The St. Albans Campus houses a community living center as well as outpatient services.

Responsibilities

The Service Chief of GEC directs the educational and performance improvement activities on the St. Albans campus, integrating them and the delivery of medical care with the facility's mission, vision, and strategic plans. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Ensures that extended care services are aligned with the facility's mission, vision, and strategic plan. Provides input as requested to the strategic plan.
• Provides for the integration of medical care with other services and programs within and outside the CLC. Develops and implements appropriate policies and procedures to provide guidance in and ensure coordination of care.
• Directs and supervises the activities of the CLC, including both inpatient and outpatient services.
• Ensures that all CLC policies are effectively implemented and maintained and are updated as necessary.
• Attends and provides input into, as appropriate, the Director's Staff Conference, the Executive Leadership Committee, the Strategic Planning Committee, the Clinical Executive Board, the Professional Standards and Credentialing Board and the GEC/CLC Performance Improvement Leadership Teams.
• Assesses needs for, develops, implements, and evaluates the GEC performance improvement plan.
• Represents the Executive Chief of Staff and the Chief, Medical Service, as the physician at the CLC responsible for clinical administration and quality of patient care delivered in the nursing home units and the outpatient clinics.
• Develops policies, SOPs, and guidelines in cooperation with the Chief, Medical Service, and inpatient Geriatric Consultation Service at the Brooklyn Campus.
• Ensures that customer service standards are promoted throughout the St. Albans campus to include complaint resolution and service recovery.

Clinical Responsibilities

Ensures that comprehensive, coordinated, and timely, long term health care of excellent quality is provided for every geriatric Veteran and the St. Albans campus. Provides primary care to an assigned panel of patients at the St. Albans outpatient clinic. Assigns physician coverage for the nursing home units, designating alternates as necessary; ensures policies and procedures are in place to promote appropriate intermediate bed utilization. Promotes effective communication and working relationships between the units of the St. Albans campus and the VA NYHHS's medical school and allied health affiliates. Apprises patients and their families and/or significant others of significant findings, diagnoses and prognoses and collaborates with them on treatment and continuity of care plans and end-of-life planning; participates in interdisciplinary patient education delivery and documentation.

Educational Responsibilities

Serves as Director of the Interdisciplinary Long Term Care Conference. Ensures competency assessment, service level orientation, in-service training and continuing education are provided for all St. Albans Provider staff on an ongoing basis, and that documentation of participation and evaluation is maintained. Ensures that a clinical environment is maintained suitable for high quality geriatric education and training for students in the various health professions. Responsible for resident education at the St. Albans campus. Ensures appropriate supervision of house staff and students. Evaluates teaching programs to determine effectiveness in meeting program goals and patient care needs. Encourages research activities that add to a general understanding of the distinctive aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of disease and functional capacity.

Work Schedule

8:00am - 4:30pm

Total Rewards

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards.

Pay

Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases

Retirement

Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance

Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Contract

No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting