The FHC laborist will provide comprehensive (routine and emergency) obstetrics and gynecological care to an ethnically and socially diverse patient population in accordance with the values, beliefs and policies of Family Health Centers and NYU Langone Health. This is an inpatient position at NYU Langone-Brooklyn, located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY. The Hospital serves a diverse patient population, caring for both low and high-risk pregnancies, delivering 4000 deliveries annually. FHC has about 1200-1300 deliveries a year.
Work Responsibilities
Inpatient Coverage:
- Provide comprehensive inpatient coverage for patients requiring obstetric admission.
- Admit and manage patients in labor, overseeing routine and complex deliveries, including operative vaginal and cesarean deliveries.
- Evaluate patients presenting in triage as needed and facilitate their admission or discharge as clinically indicated.
- Manage postpartum patients, addressing complications of pregnancy and delivery, routine postpartum care, and ensuring timely postpartum discharge before 11 am.
- Perform neonatal circumcisions.
- Provide emergency room care for patients experiencing early pregnancy complications.
- Supervise and deliver care for high-risk patients (32 wk and over) with 24-hour consultation support from Maternal Fetal Medicine faculty.
- Collaborate with General Ob/Gyn physicians for primary management of laboring patients, unless otherwise arranged with Maternal Fetal Medicine.
- Maintain the highest standards of evidence-based obstetric care.
- Attend to departmental and unit quality and safety goals, including achieving low primary cesarean delivery rates, low episiotomy rates, and prompt recognition and escalation of clinical safety concerns.
- Adhere to policies and procedures to enhance operational workflows for patient care.
- Facilitate a High Reliability Organization (HRO) by exhibiting professionalism for patients, colleagues, and staff.
- Provide patient care and services in Emergency Room and Operating Room of NYU Langone-Brooklyn.
- Maintain accurate, timely and complete documentation of all clinical services rendered in our EMR system and other appropriate areas.
- Participate in committees and meetings related to departmental growth, resident and medical student education, quality initiatives, as requested.
- Participate on a rotating basis in the 24 hour on-call, phone coverage arrangement, which includes answering patients’ telephone calls within 30 minutes and entering all required documentation of the call in the patient’s medical record.
- An on-call shift is defined as a 24-hour period in the hospital. Your specific call
Minimum Qualifications
- Graduated from US accredited OBGYN residency training program
- NYS medical license
- Board eligible or board certified OBGYN
- 3+ years experience working as a L&D laborist/hospitalist
About the company
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NYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves the best patient outcomes through a rigorous focus on quality that has resulted in some of the lowest mortality rates in the nation. Vizient, Inc., has ranked NYU Langone No. 1 out of 118 comprehensive academic medical centers across the nation for four years in a row, and U.S. News & World Report recently ranked four of its clinical specialties No. 1 in the nation. NYU Langone offers a comprehensive range of medical services with one high standard of care across seven inpatient locations, its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and more than 320 outpatient locations in the New York area and Florida. The system also includes two tuition-free medical schools, in Manhattan and on Long Island, and a vast research enterprise. For more information, go to nyulangone.org and interact with us on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and Indeed.
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NYU Grossman School of Medicine has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history since 1841. With more than 75 divisions of specialty care including comprehensive inpatient and outpatient programs for every stage of life, a multifaceted Research and Academic Center and the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine focused on primary care, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island joined NYU Langone Health as of August 1, 2019. At NYU Langone Hospitals, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health (collectively referred to as "NYU Langone"), we work collectively to achieve our mission: To care. To teach. To discover. We celebrate the inclusive excellence of the people that make us a world-class institution in patient care, education and science ("tripartite missions"). We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff and students can thrive.