Psychiatry Opening in Watertown, NY
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Psychiatric-Mental Health
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Permanent/Full-Time
Work Environment
Hospital
Clinic/Private Practice
Location
Watertown, New York, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
4/29/24
**Outpatient Psychiatry Opportunity: Watertown, NY**
~ Located 70m to Syracuse, 50m to Canadian border
**Position Details**
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Annual salary: $320,000, plus a WRVU productivity model
- Signing bonus: $50,000
- Education Loan repayment: $20,000 each year
- Relocation reimbursement: $10,000
- 4-year contract
- A generous benefit package
**Practice Highlights:**
- Behavioral health services include inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, intensive outpatient addictions services and alcohol and substance abuse treatment.
- Collaborative relationship and easy access to follow up outpatient care at Outpatient Behavioral Health Clinic.
- Seasoned professionals with extensive longevity: 3 BC Psychiatrists, Licensed Practice Nurses, 14 clinicians: LMSW, LCSW, LCSW-R, Psy D
- Approximately 2,300 clients served annually with an average 1,600 appointments monthly.
- Call is 1:4
- Expanding to 12 ED beds
- Group offers an environment conducive to empathy, healing and respect while providing care to adults 18 years and older.
- Recent significant renovations have occurred to provide a modernized healing environment.
- Inpatient Mental Health Unit (IMHU) is a 32-bed unit on the main campus and is certified and licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health.
- Most common admitting diagnoses are: PTSD, psychotic disorder, bipolar disorder, personality disorder and co-occurring substance abuse disorders.
- Medical H&Ps and medical support provided by Hospitalist service.
- Catchment population: 250,000
- Serving the military soldiers and their families from nearby Fort Drum, home to the 10th Mountain Army Division.
- The military population averages up to 40% of the IMHU admissions.
- Teaching opportunities are extended with accredited ACGME/AOA family medicine and internal medicine residency training programs
**Location**
In Northern New York, there are no trade-offs. You literally can have it all - gorgeous natural surroundings, easy access to metropolitan areas, excellent school systems, high-quality medicine for your family, low cost of living, safe community and a comfortable, relaxed lifestyle among some of the most scenic country and most enjoyable recreational opportunities in America. Small town feeling with big city amenities - including excellent dining locations and multiple stores for shopping right in Watertown and on the water. From the Adirondack Mountains - one of America's last great wilderness regions, St. Lawrence Seaway - 454 miles long, where you can find one of natures true wonders: the Thousand Islands. There are 1,864 islands stretched out in the river like diamonds in a necklace - to the most inviting of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario, with excellent boating, fishing, swimming, etc.
**About the Group**
287 bed, not-for-profit hospital, located in Northern New York, is seeking providers both for hospital based employment and private practice opportunities. Health Group is just that - the center for healthcare across the counties, cities, towns and villages of New York's North Country. Located in the City of Watertown in Jefferson County, Health Group is the largest provider of healthcare from Burlington, Vermont to Syracuse, New York - a total of 286 miles - catchment of 260,000 - with over 1,200 healthcare professionals. Diagnostic cardiac catheterization, interventional radiology, radiation oncology, neonatal intensive care, a sleep disorders center, and many advanced surgical procedures are only a few examples of the services that set Health Group apart from most hospitals of similar size. Health Group postgraduate osteopathic training program also allows for teaching opportunities for those providers interested. Health Group is unique in that we also support the healthcare for our local military base called Fort Drum. This is the only military base of this size that does not have their own hospital. Our solid financial outlook and strategic plan have resulted in a significant expansion and renovation project that will improve the entire campus.Development of a parking garage, new patient tower and significant renovations to existing space will begin shortly. Health Group organization exists for the sole purpose of caring for the people in our community...just as we have for over 125 years.