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New Consultation Liaison Psychiatrist Opportunity in Desirable Community of Saratoga Springs, NY

Saratoga Hospital Medical Group seeks a BC/BE Psychiatrist fellowship-trained, or with equivalent experience or training in Psychosomatic Medicine for our Consultation Liaison role at Saratoga Hospital.

Work as the lead psychiatrist for a consultation service of a 171-bed community hospital with significant recent construction and renovations including a 19-bed state-of-the-art ICCU, 12-bed Labor and Delivery, medical surgical units, and more. Current team consists of a full-time LCSW and half time psychiatrist. The hospital would like to expand mental health treatment for substance use disorders, delirium, CHF/MI/COPD admitted patients. Enjoy a close, collaborative working relationship with nursing staff, hospitalists, specialists and palliative care service.

This is an opportunity to work with a close-knit, experienced, multi-disciplinary care team on a 16-bed adult inpatient unit and with emergency department and hospital staff for the consultation liaison service. 

All physicians take inpatient call for a 16-bed inpatient adult mental health unit. Call is paid and approximately 1:10, taken evenings by phone with rounding on weekends.

Psychiatrists are part of a collegial team that includes hospital psychiatrists, and outpatient psychiatrists at the Saratoga Community Health Center and Saratoga County Mental Health. Psychiatrists work closely across the system with physicians and advanced practitioners in our primary care and specialty network as part of Saratoga Hospital Medical Group.

Saratoga Hospital Medical Group 

Saratoga Hospital Medical Group, a multispecialty group of 300 + providers including physicians and advanced practice providers, contributes significantly to the hospital’s continued growth and reputation for excellence. Collegiality plays an integral part in that, too. Doctors enjoy a shared governance approach to leadership and tremendous support of hospital administration.

 Saratoga Hospital

For the second year in a row, Saratoga Hospital has been named one of “The World’s Best Hospitals” by Newsweek—a distinction earned by just 11 hospitals in the state. Saratoga Hospital is by far the smallest New York facility to earn the designation.

Saratoga Hospital is a 171-bed independent, locally governed, thriving community hospital and a leading healthcare provider in the region. We have enjoyed continuous growth for more than a decade, along with a reputation for high quality, personalized, compassionate care. Since September 2004, Saratoga Hospital has maintained Magnet^® recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center—the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice.

The Albany Med Health System

Saratoga Hospital is an affiliate of the Albany Med Health System. This gives our physicians access to shared best practices, continuing medical education (CME), and teaching opportunities. This partnership has added access to services typically not offered by community hospitals, as well as a seamless connection to the Capital Region’s only academic medical center and the highly specialized medical care it can provide. If interested, our physicians have the opportunity to have medical students rotate through their practice as well as Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner students from local programs.

The compensation and benefit package is competitive and comprehensive.

• We offer loan forgiveness, a sign-on bonus, moving expenses.

• Health and Prescription Plan

• Dental and Vision Insurances

• 403(b) Retirement Plan with employer contributions and 457(b) Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Plan

• Employer-Paid Life Insurance & Accidental Death and Dismemberment; LTD

• Flexible Spending Account(s) including Medical Reimbursement and Dependent Care Account

• Paid Time Off

• Paid CME, CME stipend

• Professional dues; professional liability coverage

• $200 annual YMCA discount, a number of supplemental insurances, services, discount programs and more!

Saratoga Hospital is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) entity for those participating in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.

Saratoga Springs is a great place to live and work, where you will feel a sense of community.

• Located a half hour from Albany, New York State’s Capital City,
• Three hours from New York City, Montreal and Boston — right on the edge of New England,
• Saratoga County offers family-oriented communities and excellent schools — both public and private.
• Saratoga Springs and surrounding towns and villages are experiencing growth and revitalization evidenced by new homes, upscale apartments, shops, eateries, and businesses.
• TravelMag named Saratoga Springs, NY, one of the Most Charming Small Cities in the USA, 2021.
• Known for world-class entertainment, and abundant year-round recreational and athletic opportunities,
• Famous venues include: Saratoga Race Course featuring world-class thoroughbred racing, Saratoga Performing Arts Center hosting a multitude of pop and cultural events each summer, the beautiful Saratoga Spa State Park, and Saratoga National Historic Park, where the Battles of Saratoga in 1777 changed the face of history!
• Outdoor enthusiasts will love the natural beauty of the Adirondacks, nearby Berkshires and Green Mountains, Saratoga Lake, Lake George, other waterways, and more!

Learn more about us: http://www.saratogahospital.org; http://iloveny.com/; http://www.discoversaratoga.org; https://capital-saratoga.com/; https://www.iloveny.com/places-to-go/adirondacks/. .Send CV: Denise Romand, CPRP, Medical Staff Recruiter/Liaison, Saratoga Hospital e: dromand@saratogahospital.org p: 518.583.8465 w: SaratogaHospital.org 

Employment at Saratoga Hospital

Saratoga Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability or protected veteran status, and any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal law or Executive Orders.

Requirements

BC/BE Psychiatrist fellowship-trained, or with equivalent experience or training in Psychosomatic Medicine