Ophthalmology - Physician - Brooklyn Heights, NY - New York, United States - Mount Sinai Medical Center

Description

Mount Sinai Doctors Brooklyn Heights, a multi-specialty practice in a state of the art facility, is currently seeking a full-time General Ophthalmology Physician to join its practice in Downtown Brooklyn

Mount Sinai Doctors Brooklyn Heights is a multi-specialty practice in Brooklyn dedicated to providing exceptional "whole person" healthcare. The large multispecialty practice is located at 300 Cadman Plaza West, Brooklyn, NY 11201 serving a diverse community.

The practice is in the heart of Brooklyn Heights, which is a short walk to DUMBO, downtown Brooklyn, Cobble Hill, and Carrol Gardens offering an endless array of restaurants, nightlife, and shopping.

Brooklyn waterfront provides parks, ball fields, and playgrounds with possibly the greatest view in NYC.

Additionally, there are premier school districts, public and private within walking distance of practice, as well as numerous cultural activities such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Mark Morris Dance Studio.

Mount Sinai Doctors Brooklyn Heights offers comprehensive care where patients can see various specialties including cardiology, gastroenterology, pulmonary, endocrinology, pediatrics, Ob/Gyn, dermatology, urology, renal, all at the same site.

Services offered include on site lab, radiology plus comprehensive Breast Cancer Screening (FNA), ultrasound, X-ray, CT scan, cardiac testing, and full PFT lab.

The site has a comprehensive support team, including MAs and LPNs.

The chosen candidates will have the opportunity to partner with world renowned, Icahn School of Medicine.

Mount Sinai's Department of Ophthalmology is strongly committed to caring for the whole patient and places special emphasis on providing patient-centered care.

The division embraces the mission of Icahn School of Medicine by pursuing an integrate approach to patient care, research, and education.

We pursue all dimensions of these three components, considering them inseparable elements of the art and science of medicine.


Position Description:
Initially, your duties include, but are not limited to the following:

Working full time (1 FTE Clinical), providing General Ophthalmology care at Mount Sinai Doctors Brooklyn Heights.

In collaboration with our multi-specialty team, the position offers an opportunity to build an ophthalmology practice with a diverse patient population in a large, busy multi-specialty practice.

The practice is dedicated to the highest quality care and to promoting continued education in its staff while playing an integral role in Mount Sinai's efforts to establish an outpatient hub in Brooklyn.

The role is 100% outpatient with phone call to cover non clinic hours.

There are no research and administrative responsibilities, but physicians have the opportunity to be involved in PI and QA initiatives.

• Work with a multi-specialty team in the heart of Brooklyn Heights with an exceptional payer mix
• Serve a diverse population and live in a neighborhood with excellent school districts and numerous cultural activities
• Practice has a close affiliation with New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and world-class tertiary/quaternary surgical care
• Support staff: Medical assistants, and techs
• Call schedule: No hospital, possibility of telephone call only
• EMR system: Epic
• 100 % Outpatient
• No administrative, teaching, or research responsibilities
• Competitive salary and benefits offered including productivity bonuses, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, malpractice coverage, and CME stipends
• Compensation range from 290K to 320K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits)

These duties may be modified from time to time by your Chair/Chief/Director based on Institutional needs.


Specific Responsibilities:

• Reviewing with the Medical Director and Director of Operations, all individuals requesting a Hospital/School appointment in the Section of Ophthalmology at the Mount Sinai Doctors Brooklyn Heights location.
• Work with the Medical Director and Director of Operations in monitoring the quality and appropriateness of Ophthalmology care at Mount Sinai Hospital when rendered by physicians with clinical privileges on the Service and Department of Ophthalmology training programs.
• May recommend and assist the Medical Director or Director of Operations in the development of policies and procedures that encompass patient care, patient safety, etc. in compliance with accepted standards, regulatory agencies governing health care delivery and the guidelines/rules of accrediting bodies for the Mount Sinai Doctors Brooklyn Heights location.
• Serve on Department Committees as assigned by the Medical Director or Director of Operations, setting agenda, organizing meetings, following up on recommendations and disseminating information.
• Assist the Medical Director or Director of Operations to ensure that the quality and appropriateness of clinical care are monitored and evaluated and that appropriate action based on findings is taken when necessary.
• In concert with other members of the Department, participate in improving patient satisfaction through the Press Ganey initiatives and monitoring patient satisfaction reports and results. Helps to develop plans by which the Department physicians can contribute to improvement of patient satisfaction with clinical services in all Mount Sinai's health care facilities.
• Recommend and assist the Medical Director and Director of Operations in developing, implementing and updating strategic long-and short-range plans to support the Department's philosophy and goals.
• Meet with Hospital and Nursing leadership to review all areas related to quality and appropriateness of patient care and other similar issues and metrics they may arise.

Position Qualifications:

• Medical Degree from an Accredited University
• New York Medical License/Active NYS DEA
• Board Eligible or Board Certified in General Ophthalmology
• Committed to Mount Sinai and the communities we serve
• Excellent communication, bedside manner, and organizational skills
• A strong work ethic and desire to participate in a team-oriented, performance-driven Health System
• Respectfully collaborate and build relationships with a diverse set of teammates

Thrive in a constantly evolving environment, challenging the status quo and striving to innovate and improve care delivery


Salary Disclosure Information:

Mount Sinai Health System provides a salary range to comply with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements.

Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialties, historical productivity, historical collections, and hospital/community need.

As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range.

The salary range listed is for full-time employment and does not include bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits.

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

Alex Cano

Executive Director Physician Recruitment

Mount Sinai Health System

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Employer Description

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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