Northwell Health’s Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine is seeking a Geriatrics and/or Palliative Medicine Physician for its inpatient consult service at Plainview and Syosset Hospitals in Long Island, NY. This is an exciting opportunity to join a nationally recognized division. The ideal candidate should be board-certified/board-eligible in Geriatrics and/or Palliative Medicine and have an interest in delivering hospital-based patient care. Our interdisciplinary team of physicians, registered nurses, and social workers provide high-quality clinical care to older adults and those with severe and advanced illness. Highlights include academic and research opportunities, exposure to a variety of patient demographics, and professional growth opportunities.
Plainview Hospital is an acute care, 219-bed community hospital that treats patients with a wide range of medical, surgical and gynecological conditions. It has a busy same-day surgery program, a Center of Excellence for minimally invasive gynecologic procedures, is renowned for its total joint replacement program, and is home to one of the Don Monti Cancer Centers and a Northwell Family Medicine residency. It is also a New York State Department of Health Primary Stroke Center and a recipient of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With the Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Award. The hospital has been recognized by the Joint Commission for excellence in heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care.
Syosset Hospital is a 136-bed facility that provides the highest quality care by experienced, board-certified medical professionals. We offer a well-equipped special care unit and an emergency department (with trauma unit) that treats more than 15,000 patients each year. Our surgeons perform advanced laparoscopic and general surgery procedures in our state-of-the-art surgical suite. We’re also home to centers of excellence in bariatric surgery and orthopedics—which means we offer exceptional expertise and resources in those areas. In addition, our radiology department has the most advanced high-speed CAT scan technology available.
We continually recruit a diverse physician workforce to meet the needs of the diverse patients we seek to serve; as a result, our Health System is proudly ranked Diversity Inc’s #1 Hospital and Health System. We fully understand that diversity is integral for our institutional excellence and a means to attaining health equity. As a result, our diversity and inclusion efforts are a part of everything we do, from education, to clinical care, to research, to physician well-being. For more information and resources regarding our initiatives, please visit our Center for Equity of Care, https://www.northwell.edu/education-and-resources/community-engagement/center-for-equity-of-care
Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 21 hospitals, over 850 outpatient facilities and more than 16,600 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 80,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,900 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
For additional information and to apply, please contact the Office of Physician Recruitment at OPR@Northwell.edu
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Full-time clinical base compensation at Northwell Health ranges from $125K to $750K, which is impacted by various factors, including but not limited to physician specialty, level of experience, quality of care, academic accomplishments, patient experience and productivity. The base compensation range listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future
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For additional information and to apply, please contact the Office of Physician Recruitment at
OPR@Northwell.edu
