Senior Director, Division of Blood Bank and Transfusion Services – NYC Suburbs
- Employer
- Northwell Health
- Location
- NYC Suburbs
- Posted Date
- Aug 15, 2015
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- Specialty
- Chiefs / Directors / Dept. Heads
- Position Type
- Permanent
Job Details
The North Shore-LIJ Health System Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine seeks a qualified M.D. or M.D., Ph.D. physician who will direct the Division of Blood Bank and Transfusion Medicine for the North Shore-LIJ Health System. The Senior Director will have direct oversight over Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine services at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH, 804 beds) and Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJMC, 726 beds), and will provide system-wide leadership for blood product and transfusion medicine services in the 17 other hospitals in the health system (3 tertiary hospitals, 12 community hospitals; over 6,000 licensed beds total) and two non-system hospitals, in coordination with local site medical directors. Collectively, in 2014 over 61,000 units of red blood cells and over 11,000 single donor platelet units were administered system-wide. Over 1,100 therapeutic pheresis procedures were performed by the 6 Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine-certified subspecialists in the health system. The division supports robust tertiary care clinical programming in medical and surgical oncology, cardiothoracic surgery, trauma-1 surgery, orthopaedic surgery, transplantation, obstetrics, and pediatrics.
In this leadership role, the senior director will be responsible for the following:
- Provide visible and accessible leadership to health system leadership, medical and nursing staff, and hospital leadership for the delivery of high quality patient care, while maintaining effective practices for utilization of blood products and directing the compliance and regulatory activities of Blood Bank services.
- Serve both as a resource and as a leader in efforts to standardize transfusion medicine operations across the system and maximize the quality and safety of patient care
- Be a faculty member of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, an integrated department across the system.
Required Qualifications include:
- Board Certification in Clinical Pathology (CP, with joint AP/CP certification preferred); accredited fellowship training in Transfusion Medicine (to include stem cell retrieval and apheresis) with Board certification in Transfusion Medicine
- A minimum of 5 years post-fellowship experience, preferably with at least 2 years as Director or Associate Director of a major Blood Bank program.
- The individual should have demonstrated leadership and management abilities, including experience in support of oncology, hematology, trauma, pediatric, obstetric, and transplantation programs.
- The individual will be expected to support the education of physicians-in-training, and an academic background with demonstrated academic accomplishments is desirable.
For additional information and to apply, please contact: Laura Screeney, FASPR, Corporate Director of Physician Recruitment, at (888) 685-7545, lscreeney@nshs.edu; www.nslijphysiciancareers.com
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About Northwell Health
Northwell Health includes 21 award-winning hospitals and more than 750 community based practice locations throughout Long Island, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Westchester. Northwell is the most awarded health system in all of New York, and home to the #1 hospital in the state – North Shore University Hospital* (NSUH) – according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Hospital Rankings survey. Additionally, six Northwell hospitals earned top 50 national rankings across 39 medical specialties, with nine hospitals ranked among the best in the state.
We have access to the wide range of resources that Northwell Health has to offer, and we are also affiliated with a number of other excellent organizations. Northwell Health Physician Partners provides exceptional, comprehensive and quality clinical care to patients, families and communities through an integrated approach and with a commitment to exceeding customer expectations. At Northwell Health, we define tomorrow’s health care through clinical care, community health, education, research and entrepreneurship.
At Northwell Health, we seek innovation and excellence in everything we do. This passion can be observed throughout our system of 21 hospitals and more than 700 ambulatory and physician practices. We are NYS largest health care provider and private employer. Our mission is to redefine patient care and the way it is provided. Are you Made for this?
Diversity and Health Equity
Northwell Health is committed to training, supporting and nurturing physicians from all backgrounds. 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.
Diversity and inclusion permeates our educational and clinical initiatives. We have set a goal to make sure every one of our physicians receives training on how to deliver high quality, culturally competent care. Our recent educational areas of focus have been on social determinants of health, community engagement and developing a medical-legal partnership for our physicians-in-training. One of our many strengths is our diverse patient population and our expectation is that our diverse patient populations receive equitable care, irrespective of who they are. As a result, we continually recruit a diverse physician workforce to meet the needs of our diverse patients.
Salary Disclosure
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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