Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) is adding a Physician Assistant - Heart Failure to the group at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi and North Central Bronx. Jacobi Medical Center is a 457-bed, Level I Trauma Center and North Central Bronx Hospital (NCB) has 213 licensed beds.  To this day, Jacobi and NCB remain respected leaders in emergency medicine, trauma surgery, burn care, pediatrics, primary care, and women’s health.

 

The hospital maintains a strong academic affiliation with Albert Einstein Medical College 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.

 

Opportunity Details:

The services at Jacobi Medical Center (Jacobi) and North Central Bronx (NCB) are an academic practice supported by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Cardiology Fellows. Interested in working with a growing heart failure team and a desire in establishing a road to recovery for patients in heart failure in an underserved population. Highly impactful rewarding career. Both inpatient and outpatient care. Ability to conduct a comprehensive assessment of a patient with heart failure including taking detailed health histories, identifying triggers/etiology for heart failure, and performing physical examinations and able to assess the spectrum of clinical symptoms from euvolemia to decompensated heart failure, and identify concerns for impending cardiogenic shock. Familiar with diagnostic tests such as ECG (including basic interpretation of an ECG), ischemic evaluations (from stress tests to CCTA/LHC), and some familiarity in reviewing test results. Understanding in the two major forms of heart failure – HFrEF and HFpEF and the specific management of both using guideline directed medical therapy. Full knowledge of medications used in treating heart failure and understand titration of these meds. Educate patients and their families about heart failure and its management. The provider will work closely with the heart failure physician and other cardiologists/healthcare providers and communication and collaboration is vital in implementing treatment plans.