Medical Director, Labor and Delivery â Vassar Brothers Medical Center â Poughkeepsie, New York (75 minutes north of New York City)
Medical Director, Labor and Delivery â Vassar Brothers Medical Center â Poughkeepsie, New York (75 minutes north of New York City)
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Position at Nuvance Health Med Practice PC
Medical Director Labor and Delivery Vassar Brothers Medical Center Poughkeepsie New York (75 minutes north of New York City)
Vassar Brothers Medical Center located 75 minutes north of New York City has an excellent opportunity for a Medical Director of the Labor and Delivery Department. This is a unique opportunity to be a clinical leader in a growing health system that has an established center of excellence in Womens Health. The Medical Director will lead a group of obstetricians and work collaboratively with nursing leadership midwifery anesthesia and neonatology to ensure the highest quality evidence-based care.
This position will be 0.8 clinical as an OBGYN generalist or OB hospitalist in the Nuvance-Northwell employed practice and 0.2 administrative as the L&D Director. This role will report to the Vassar OBGYN Chair and help oversee the Nuvance-Northwell employed OBGYN physicians.
The Division of OB/GYN has offices located in Poughkeepsie Fishkill and Highland NY. The practice admits exclusively to Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie. Our busy Labor and Delivery Unit sees about 2500 babies born each year. We have a level III NICU staffed by neonatologists as well as an excellent perinatology addition we have fellowship trained breast surgeons and GYN-oncologists that are located on the Vassar Hospital campus.
The ideal candidate will have the following experience and qualifications:
- At least 3 years of practice with preferred experience as an accomplished member of a leadership team of a large community teaching hospital and/or academic medical center.
- Interest in working with a collaborative multidisciplinary team.
- Experience working with midwives and NP/PAs preferred.
- The candidate must be MD/DO with completed OBGYN residency training and board certification.
- NY state licensure (or eligibility to obtain NY state licensure) is required.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Lead a group of obstetricians who provide exceptional evidence-based obstetrical care.
- Work collaboratively with nursing leadership midwifery anesthesia neonatology and obstetricians to ensure the highest quality of care.
- Review basic practices around the plan of care and develop protocols that are readily available to all Department staff providing care to patients.
- Attend daily huddles to review the plan of care for all patients in labor and delivery antepartum patients and triage patients.
- Evaluate the use of clinical resources to ensure that they are used appropriately to enhance quality and cost effectiveness.
- Assist with the development and training of obstetric simulation.
- Participate in patient experience rounds with the nursing leadership team.
- Participate in the Emergency Department/Obstetrics care collaboration meetings.
- Participate in the standardization of obstetric patient care protocols at Hospital.
- Review new product requests and processes for the Department.
- Participate in the Department Performance Improvement committee meetings and Department grand rounds.
- Participate in the multidisciplinary planning meetings when a high risk delivery requires complex coordination.
- Participate in The Joint Commission/regulatory survey readiness tracers.
Highlights:
- Beautiful suburban location with easy train access to New York City
- Employed position with a highly competitive compensation package and comprehensive benefits
- Generous allowances for CMEs dues and relocation allowance
- Growing hospital system with ACGME-accredited residencies
- State-of-the-art patient pavilion and operating rooms
Located on the banks of the scenic Hudson River Vassar Brothers Medical Center has a new 752000 square-foot eight-level inpatient pavilion with 263 private medical/surgical patient rooms and 30 critical care rooms. Vassar provides the leading acute and critical emergency care in the region including Level II Trauma Service and Interventional Neuroradiology. Vassar has established centers of excellence in cardiac services neurosciences cancer care and womens health. Vassar is consistently ranked as one of the strongest cardiac programs in the United States and one of the Top 100 Heart Hospitals by Modern HealthCare Magazine.
The Hudson Valley of New York boasts a terrific quality of life. From hiking biking and boating to cafes art galleries and local farmers markets this beautiful suburban location offers a wide array of four-season recreational activities. The area has excellent housing and highly rated public and private school options. The Mid-Hudson Valley is also home to many fine colleges and universities including Vassar College Bard College Marist College SUNY New Paltz and the Culinary Institute of America. Only 75 minutes north of New York City the area offers easy commuter access to the city via Metro North and Amtrak rail lines.
Vassar Brothers Medical Center is part of Nuvance Health proudly joining Northwell Health.
Northwell Health is New York States largest health care provider and private employer with 28 hospitals 1000 outpatient facilities and more than 16600 affiliated physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 104000 employees - 22000 nurses and 5000 employed doctors including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners are working to change health care for the better. Were making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Our professionals are relentless about staying ahead of the latest clinical trials and research partnering with our own Feinstein Institute and other world-renowned institutions.
For more information or to submit your CV please contact Liza Stromberg Physician Recruiter via email emailprotected. All inquiries will be kept strictly confidential.
We are a Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and therefore eligible employees may qualify for forgiveness of certain federal student loans under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Qualified Applicants are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability race color religion gender national origin age genetic information military or veteran status sexual orientation marital status or any other classification protected under applicable Federal State or Local law.
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