Job Details:

Trauma Medical Director, Associate Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery & Associate Director of the Department of Surgery HealthAlliance Hospital, WMCHealth Network

Job Summary:

The Department of Surgery at Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is seeking a Trauma Medical Director/Associate Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery/Associate Director of the Department of Surgery for the HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley Hospital (HAHV), a 315-bed healthcare system comprising HealthAlliance Hospital – Mary’s Avenue Campus, HealthAlliance Hospital – Broadway Campus in Kingston, NY, and Margaretville Hospital, a 15-bed critical access hospital in Margaretville, NY, which serves Delaware, Greene, Ulster and Schoharie counties. The new Mary’s Ave campus houses all the acute care beds in Kingston. The renovated campus opened in December 2022 after a $113M expansion and enhancement project with brand-new facilities for emergency medicine, intensive care units, interventional radiology, and a new cardiac catheterization laboratory that hosts a PCI and EP program. In addition, there are state-of-the-art advanced imaging capabilities with cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and full cardiac CT angiography, including FFR. HAHV Hospital has been awarded provisional designation as a Level III Trauma Center by New York State and is supported by the WMCHealth Trauma Consortium which consists of five trauma centers spanning Level I (adult and pediatric), Level II and Level III trauma centers across the network. WMCHealth is the leader in trauma care across the Hudson Valley with an integrated approach to trauma care across all of its trauma centers. The trauma service at HAHV is supported by a full-time staff of trauma surgeons, physician assistants, a trauma program manager, a robust quality and performance improvement infrastructure, and expert subspecialty care that encompasses advanced Orthopedic Surgery, 24/7 Radiology services, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Services. The Trauma Medical Director/Associate Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery/Associate Director of the Department of Surgery is the Trauma Surgeon who will be assigned by the hospital executive leadership and the Department of Surgery to lead the multidisciplinary activities of the Trauma Program and to lead the operational aspects of General Surgery by growing the surgical programs. The role of the Trauma Medical Director/Associate Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery/Associate Director of the Department of Surgery will be to pursue and continuously maintain the full development of the trauma center in terms of quality of care, volume, scope of services, cost-effectiveness and maintenance of verification by the American College of Surgeons and regulatory agencies. Additionally, the Trauma Medical Director/Associate Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery/Associate Director of the Department of Surgery will also organize and manage the overall physician/surgeon component of the trauma and surgical services to include trainee education and research.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees the quality of patient care delivered by the service
• Provides overall professional direction to the unit
• Responsible for the triage of patients and development of admission and discharge criteria for the service
• Develops critical pathways, algorithms, or protocols
• Develops and implements appropriate quality improvement standards
• Develops opportunities for cost reduction
• Resolves conflicts among team members
• Risk management
• Teaching students and residents and training the inpatient nursing staff, and other members of the trauma team
• Managing coverage of the service
• Reviewing and updating policies and procedures
• Physician recruitment and outreach efforts

• MD, DO, or equivalent degree
• Board Certification in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care
• Completed Fellowship in Trauma or Acute Care Surgery/Surgical Critical Care
• Eligible for a New York State Medical License
• Excellent administrative and interpersonal skills

About Us:

WMCHealth is a 1,900-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on seven campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region's only acute care children's hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, a state of the art Telemedicine program, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley.

About Us:

HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley operates a 315-bed healthcare system comprising HealthAlliance Hospital: Mary’s Avenue Campus and HealthAlliance Hospital: Broadway Campus in Kingston, NY, and Margaretville Hospital in Margaretville, NY. It also operates Mountainside Residential Care Center, an 82-bed facility in Margaretville. As Ulster County’s largest employer, HealthAlliance is committed to attracting the best-qualified medical and support staff; providing outstanding, responsive, coordinated, compassionate patient- and family-centered care; excelling in clinical outcomes and patient experiences; and ensuring patient rights, privacy and respect are honored at all times, while improving the overall health and well-being of the diverse communities it serves. For more information, visit hahv.org or follow Facebook.com/HealthAllianceHV or Twitter.com/HAllianceHudVal.

Other:

WMCHealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of Westchester Medical Center Health Network to provide equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age (40 or older), marital status, genetic information or carrier status, disability (mental or physical), citizenship status, pregnancy, military service or veteran status, arrest or criminal accusation, domestic violence victim status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

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Benefits:

• Health Insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Flexible Saving Account
• Paid Time Off
• Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement