Job Description

• Provide excellent patient care.
• Create and recommend treatment plans.
• Take patient medical histories.
• Update patient information and charts with the latest findings and treatments.
• Order tests for health care staff to administer.
• Review and interpret test results.
• Respond to questions and concerns from patients about their health care and well-being.
• Discuss proper nutrition, hygiene, and self-care with patients to promote good health.
• Work with various medical staff such as an anesthesiologist, surgeons, and nurses to provide patient care.

Hospitalist Requirements

• Ph.D., MD, or Professional Degree in Medicine from an accredited medical school.
• Current M.D. or D.O. license for the state.
• Certification in BCLS, ACLS required if stress tests performed or as required by specialty.
• Current State and Federal Narcotics Licenses.
• 5 years of physician or hospitalist experience.
• Experience with hospital medicine.

Essen Health Care is a growing community healthcare network provides high quality, compassionate, and accessible medical care to some of the most vulnerable and under-served residents of New York State. Guided by a ‘population health’ model of care, Essen has five integrated clinical divisions offering services in primary & specialty offices, urgent care centers, and nursing homes, as well as house calls for home bound patients; all clinical services are also offered via telehealth. Our Care Management division supports patient-centered care through care coordination, complex care management and helping address health-related social needs.

Founded in 1999, Essen provides care in all five boroughs of New York City, with a primary focus in the Bronx. Staffed by over 300 primary and specialty care physicians and advanced clinicians, Essen Health Care is one of the largest, most comprehensive private medical groups in New York City. Essen maintains a Clinical Information Services team that maintains our enterprise-wide electronic medical record system, data repository, clinical analytics and population health capabilities. Our Community Services teams creates and sustains relationship with community organizations and agencies and health plans.

Essen is dedicated to ensuring the quality of care for all patients and has been designated ‘Level 3 Patient Centered Medical Home’ by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. Essen has won awards for its patient care innovations and recently launched Intention Health Ventures to develop and commercialize our technology innovations.

ESSEN HEALTH CARE IS PROUD TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Essen Health care is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we seek candidates who desire to work in and serve an ethnically diverse population.