Critical Care - Physician - Rapid Response Team - Manhattan, NY

Description

The Institute for Critical Care Medicine of the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, NY seeks dynamic fellowship-trained Intensivists to join its expanding team to attend on the Rapid Response Team at Mount Sinai Hospital!

While working in conjunction with several consulting practitioners, as well as several other administrative staff members, the ideal candidates will play an instrumental role in ensuring excellent patient care, quality outcomes, and satisfaction as well as oversee other inpatient services. In addition, we would like our talented physician candidates to have a passion for academic, inpatient medicine and be fully committed to mission of Mount Sinai Health System. Candidates should be Board Eligible or Board Certified in Critical Care Medicine or Equivalent.

The Rapid Response Team (RRT) attending physicians have clinical responsibility in a service that is dedicated to providing early intensive care style intervention in non-ICU patients in order to reduce their likelihood of needing to be transferred to an ICU and to reduce their overall morbidity and mortality. The RRT physician will be responsible to evaluate, treat and triage patients throughout the hospital in conjunction with the RRT NP, RRT respiratory therapist, Critical Care fellows and other health care providers (e.g., primary medical doctor, intensivists) as necessary.

Procedures that might be required at the bedside include ACLS, cardioversion, central venous catheterization, arterial line insertion, tracheal intubation, thoracentesis, chest tube insertion, paracentesis and lumbar puncture. Excellent multidisciplinary skills, outstanding communication, flexibility and the ability to make decisions in a fast paced high risk environment are essential.

Successful applicants will be outstanding, highly collaborative clinicians, Board Certified or Board Eligible in Critical Care Medicine with a passion for acute care and a shared commitment to our academic mission. Outstanding communication skills, a high emotional intelligence, adaptability, and the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced environment are essential.

Mount Sinai offers a competitive salary and benefits package and academic appointment within the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai commensurate with credentials and experience. Members of our team will play a central role in critical care education for our fellows-in-training and will have access to an expansive array of opportunities to pursue projects in clinical and translational research.

Responsibilities

• Academic appointment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

• Highly competitive compensation package

• Outstanding collaborative and collegial work environment with a large, multidisciplinary intensive care group

• Opportunities for academic involvement in research and teaching

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

CLINICAL

a. To provide state-of-the-art, evidence-based, critical care at Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) by investigating, diagnosing, and treating acutely ill patients. This may include performing treatments and procedures at the bedside, such as, airway maintenance/ intubation, bronchoscopy, cardioversion, point of care ultrasound, central line insertions, ACLS, and others in order to manage critically ill patients in the ICUs.

b. You will have clinical duties as a full-time intensivist.

This may include both shifts in the ICU and on other critical care services. ICCM provides 24/7 intensivist coverage across Mount Sinai Health System. You will have an appointment as Assistant Professor. You will be a member of the Institute for Critical Care Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital site, providing service for the Rapid Response Team (RRT) and Night Intensivist Coverage Service (NICS).

c. Full-time critical care faculty are responsible for 13 shifts per month with a combination of day and night shifts. Your monthly shift count will be allocated according to your critical care clinical effort.

d. Write detailed medical records for all critical care services and procedures provided to patients and submit to Charge Capture in a timely manner. All notes must be in accordance with the MSHS Assurance and Compliance Services Department's policies.

e. Achieve an annual work-relative value unit (wRVU) target based on billable critical care services and procedures. You may qualify for a productivity bonus if the wRVUs generated exceed your annual target.

f. Once minimum monthly requirements are achieved, there will be an opportunity to work extra shifts for additional compensation.

To receive payments for these additional shifts, you must complete Mount Sinai's attestation form and submit it to the Administrator of the Department within five (5) business days of providing coverage for the per-diem session. Payment for each service will be made in a lump sum within 60 days of your service if the faculty attestation form is submitted timely.

g. Participate in clinical continuing education courses and workshops to expand competency in treatment and procedures.

QUALITY:

a. Obtain exceptional clinical outcomes by promoting safety and quality through evidence-based medicine and excellent multidisciplinary communication. Focus on reducing the length of stay and excess days in patients with respiratory failure and tracheostomy.

b. Achieve several individual and team-based metrics for patient care which align with ICCM's quality incentive. These metrics include, but are not limited to: hand hygiene targets, CLABSI and CAUTI targets, central line and foley catheter utilization targets, and 50% attendance to ICCM monthly

c. Promote safe, quality, and equitable care by participation in unit/team-specific quality improvement projects (USQI) and unit/team based diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) projects.

These projects are conducted on an annual basis and progress is presented in the monthly ICCM Patient, Safety, and Quality Initiatives (PSQI) meeting. Submission of presentations must be submitted 1 week in advance of scheduled PSQI meetings. These projects are also part of the ICCM quality incentive program.

EDUCATION

a. Teach evidence-based medicine to critical care fellows, medical students, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Educational activities may include teaching at patients' bedside, in a classroom environment or via Vodcast and/or developing a simulation curriculum.

b. Lead by example and mentor critical care fellows, residents, nurse practitioner, and physician assistants on clinical projects and career goals.

c. Complete thorough fellowship evaluations within 2 weeks of receipt and participate in recruitment efforts for trainees.

d. Teach in fellowship training days, such as bootcamps, ultrasound courses, and SIM courses.

e. Attend continuing education, research, and clinical conferences within MSHS and externally.

RESEARCH

You are expected to participate in research activities including clinical trials and drafting manuscripts for academic journals. Research initiatives should be clinical in nature, data-driven, and may include participation in specific ICU or team-based projects.

These duties may be modified by the ICCM Director based on Institutional needs.

Qualifications

• Medical degree from an accredited university

• New York State Medical License

• Board Eligible or Board Certified in Critical Care Medicine

• Committed to Mount Sinai's vision and the communities it serves

• Excellent communication, bedside manner, and organizational skills

• Respectfully collaborate and build relationships with a diverse set of teammates

Compensation range from 300K to 375K (not including bonuses / incentive compensation or benefits)

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

Alex.cano@mountsinai.org

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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