Chair, Department of Family Medicine

The Department of Family Medicine at Peconic Bay Medical Center is seeking a visionary physician leader for the Chair position.

Responsibilities and tasks of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Overseeing the departmental aspect of strategic planning and programmatic growth with a focus on quality of the clinical and educational programs
• Leading the development and enhancement of departmental clinical and educational activities, in accordance with the facility’s mission and vision
• Supervising all professional activities and clinical staff within the Department and within subspecialty divisions of the Department
• The Chair of Family Medicine will report directly to the Hospital’s Medical Director while collaborating closely with the Family Medicine Service Line
• Managing staff including appointing departmental members to committees, establishing and coordinating faculty and staff development, periodically evaluating faculty and staff as well as all faculty appointments, reappointments, and promotions according to Hospital Medical Staff By-Laws
• Support and collaborate with the leadership, staff, and trainees of the Family Medicine Residency Program
• Ensuring professional performance of all practitioners with clinical privileges in the Department
• Collaborating with administrative and nursing leadership to build a team-based clinical environment
• Developing policies, procedures and practices for the Department that ensure the provision of high-quality patient care

Northwell Health is the largest private employer in New York State with 21 hospitals and more than 850 outpatient community-based facilities. With over 4,000 physicians and more than 80,000 employees, Northwell is the largest healthcare system in the state of New York and one of the largest 10 healthcare systems in the country. It is affiliated with The Feinstein Institutes, a nationally recognized research facility, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), a world-class basic science research facility that is home to eight Nobel Prize winners. The private, not-for-profit Laboratory employs 1,100 people including 600 scientists, students and technicians. And the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell employs over 2,400 faculty members across 25 academic departments and enrolls a diverse community of approximately 400 students.

Founded in 1951 as Central Suffolk Hospital, Peconic Bay Medical Center is the largest hospital in Eastern Suffolk County, and the Eastern Hub of Northwell Health, the largest healthcare organization in New York State. As a non-for-profit 144-bed community hospital, we serve as the primary resource for advanced healthcare services for the 250,000+ residents of the Riverhead area, Eastern Central Suffolk County, and Long Island’s North Fork. We provide our service area’s only Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory Suite, Level III Trauma Center, and NYUS-Designated Stroke Center.

• D. Degree or equivalent from an accredited College of Medicine
• Completion of residency with Board Certification
• Currently licensed as a physician in the State of New York
• Outstanding organizational, communication and management skills, and an ability to work collaboratively with all staff
• Previous division, department, or GME leadership experience highly preferred

We continually recruit a diverse physician workforce to meet the needs of the diverse patients we seek to serve; as a result, our Health System is proudly ranked Diversity Inc’s #1 Hospital and Health System. We fully understand that diversity is integral for our institutional excellence and a means to attaining health equity. As a result, our diversity and inclusion efforts are a part of everything we do, from education, to clinical care, to research, to physician well-being. For more information and resources regarding our initiatives, please visit our Center for Equity of Care.

Please send your CV and Letter of Interest to The Office of Physician Recruitment:  Show Contact Details 

Full-time clinical base compensation at Northwell Health ranges from $125K to $750K, which is impacted by various factors, including but not limited to physician specialty, level of experience, quality of care, academic accomplishments, patient experience and productivity. The base compensation range listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.

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