Director of Hospital Medicine- Plainview/Syosset Hospital

Northwell Health’s Medicine Service Line is seeking a Hospital Medicine Director for Plainview & Syosset Hospitals. These two hospitals are covered by a unified hospital medicine program. The Director will work with departmental and organizational leadership to facilitate operations and strategic planning that promote continuous improvement within our clinical and educational enterprises. Leadership experience is preferred.

Northwell Health Hospital Medicine is dedicated to these key focus areas: care of high quality and high value, excellence in the patient experience and the clinical team-member experience, along with ongoing academic and educational growth.

Highlights of the role include:

• Appropriate balance of administrative and clinical time
• Regular participation and leadership in key hospital and medical staff committees
• Development and maintenance of continuous quality improvement programs
• Partnership with the Plainview Family Medicine Residency Program
• Close collaboration with Plainview Hospital Medical Director, Department of Medicine Chairperson, and Northwell Enterprise Director for Hospital Medicine

Plainview Hospital is an acute care community hospital with 120 beds that treats patients with a wide range of medical, surgical, and gynecological conditions. It has a same-day surgery program and is also the site of one of the Don Monti Cancer Centers. Plainview also has a Family Medicine training program. The hospital was recently recognized by the Joint Commission for achieving excellence in performance on its accountability measures for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care.

Syosset Hospital provides advanced medical treatments by skilled, compassionate professionals and support staff who are trained and certified in the latest medical procedures. Our 103 beds include a well-equipped special care unit and a psychiatric wing. Syosset's Emergency Department treats more than 15,000 patients each year and has a trauma unit and eight treatment beds.

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

As New York State’s largest private employer and one of the nation’s largest health care systems, Northwell Health is home to more than 80,000+ employees, 23 hospitals, 850 ambulatory facilities, and various urgent care centers, pharmacies, and additional health services. Northwell Health delivers world-class clinical care throughout the New York metropolitan area, pioneering research at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, and training the next generation of medical professionals through the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Northwell trains more than 2000 residents and fellows in 160 programs. For information on our more than 100 medical specialties, visit Northwell.edu and follow us @NorthwellHealth on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.

For Further details, please contact: Romaine Walton, at RWalton@northwell.edu .

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About Northwell Health

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 23 hospitals, 830 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 76,000 employees – 18,900 nurses and 4,800 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners – are working to change health care for the bett...er. 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.

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