What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physician Full time position at The New Jewish Home Career Center?
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.
The Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM) of the Mount Sinai Health System, NY, is recruiting a physician to care for Post-Acute and Long Term 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 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 9 am – 5 pm daytime schedule!
REPORTS TO: Facility Medical Director
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Completes comprehensive admission evaluations of all new patients.
2. Effectively and proactively manages chronic medical conditions to maximize functional and medical recovery.
3. Rapidly identifies and addresses new medical conditions that arise.
4. Effectively works with patients, families, and interdisciplinary teams to meet established goals.
5. Attends scheduled patient and family meetings as necessary to ensure effective communication and discharge planning.
6. 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.
7. Ensures seamless care transitions by direct physician to physician communication for community, facility, or hospital discharges.
8. Ensures that advance care planning is completed and documented using MOLST and other relevant documentation.
9. Complies with all applicable Federal, State and local laws, regulations, and requirements as well as facility/agency specific policies and procedures.