Associate Director, Psychiatry - CPEP (30487)

Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) is adding an Associate Director, Psychiatry - CPEP to the group at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi. Jacobi Medical Center is a 457-bed, Level I Trauma Center. To this day, Jacobi remains a respected leader in emergency medicine, trauma surgery, burn care, pediatrics, primary care, and women’s health. The hospital maintains a strong academic affiliation with Albert Einstein College of Medicine to maintain its high healthcare delivery standards.

The mission of NYC Health + Hospitals is to extend equally to all New Yorkers, regardless of the ability to pay, comprehensive health services of the highest quality in an atmosphere of humane care, dignity, and respect. Their Values are built on a foundation of social and racial equity and has established the ICARE standards for all staff.

NYC Health + Hospitals is the nation’s largest municipal health care delivery system in the United States. Dedicated to providing the highest quality health care services to all New Yorkers with compassion, dignity and respect, and regardless of immigration status or ability to pay.

Our Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) is a state-of-the-art emergency psychiatry service. The CPEP provides a spectrum of multidisciplinary services designed to meet the needs of our diverse clientele in the most effective and least restrictive manner possible. Our 11,000 square-foot modern service includes separate pediatric and adult waiting areas, patient interview rooms, a patient holding area, and six extended observation beds. The Jacobi CPEP has approximately 700 registrations per month and has an embedded Mobile Crisis Team that makes up to 75 visits per month. Because the Behavioral Healthcare Services Department of Jacobi has large Inpatient, Outpatient, and Addiction Services, the patients evaluated in our CPEP are mostly then treated within our continuum of care.

Opportunity Details:

• The CPEP Associate Director will be responsible for following duties under the direct supervision of the Medical Director of CPEP.
• Direct supervision of attending psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric PA staff, residents, medical students, psychology interns.
• Oversee the delivery of high quality, evidence-based care.
• Directly work with leaders in the other areas of the Department including both inpatient and ambulatory programs, as well as the Emergency Medicine Department.
• Assume an important role in Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness.
• Provide leadership in undergraduate medical education including active participation in the clinical and didactic teaching of medical students and graduate medical education of residents.
• Incident review management and participation in departmental IRC meetings.
• Review/revise guidelines for standards of care ensuring that CPEP meets the OMH regulations.
• Provide leadership for all tours.