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Strength Through Diversity
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Exciting Opportunity for OR-Experienced Physician Assistants!
Join The Mount Sinai Hospital and become an operational leader. Gain hands-on experience improving processes and increasing throughput in the OR, while interacting directly with the hospital's top executives. Take your career to new heights with this incredible opportunity!
The Program Director is a credentialed Physician Assistant (PA), responsible for daily operations of
all surgical sub-specialties and surgical services within the specialties in women’s health at The Mount Sinai Hospital.
Responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Program Director is responsible for ensuring safe, high-quality patient care in surgical services by applying operational strategies, regulatory management, and care coordination. This leadership role includes integral tasks such as organizing data for perioperative processes, tracking case volume and quality measures, coordinating with vendors and surgical teams on equipment, monitoring OR block time utilization, and participating in process improvement projects. The PA Program Director must have a genuine interest in healthcare process improvement. This position requires rotating through all surgical subspecialties to map out workflows and implement necessary changes.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR ROLE EXPECTATIONS:
- Analytical and problem-solving skills to identify issues, trends, and develop effective plans.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills to build relationships and provide direction.
- Resource management abilities to prioritize and allocate resources.
- Proficient in IT solutions, including Microsoft Office Suite and Epic, to improve productivity and efficiency.
PROGRAM DIRECTOR JOB DESCRIPTION, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THIS ROLE:
COORDINATION OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAMS:
- Coordinate with Sterile Processing and Material Management to ensure operating room runs smoothly.
- Facilitate surgeon's requests for out-of-block surgical time.
- Communicate with Charge Anesthesiologist on upcoming cases.
- Coordinate surgical care planning with outside Vendors, Radiology, and other perioperative areas.
- Coordinate surgical cases based on patient's infection status.
PLANNING OF DAILY SURGICAL CASE WORKFLOW:
- Daily review of next-day cases to optimize instrumentation, material needs, and equipment.
- Weekly review of the following week's cases.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary services for the following week's cases.
- Order special product requests for the following week's cases.
PRESENTING METRICS TO FACILITATE EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING:
- Present and interpret key metrics at Children's Services Grand Rounds to support data-driven decision-making.
- Contribute to process improvement committee meetings by analyzing trends, identifying inefficiencies, and providing actionable insights.
- Participate in monthly departmental Perioperative committee meetings, integrating data to inform workflow improvements and enhance surgical outcomes.
ADVANCING OR THROUGHPUT WITH EVIDENCE-BASED QUALITY IMPROVEMENT:
- Monitor block time utilization and track departmental case volume.
- Create, initiate and monitor progress of pilot projects, such as workflow changes in response to recurring issues.
- Initiate and coordinate new instrument, supply and equipment trials.
- Perform randomized audits of ORs to ensure best practices are met.
- Participate in multidisciplinary meetings to discuss quality measures, such as cancellation, return to OR, and Surgical Site Infection prevention initiatives.
- Communicate findings with the surgical team.
INTERDISCIPLINARY COORDINATION AND OPTIMIZATION:
- Meet with Surgical Schedulers monthly to update on hospital OR guidelines and practice.
- Create workgroups with perioperative team and surgical residents on process improvement projects and ongoing education of instruments and equipment.
- Meet with vendors on current orders and answer their questions.
- Communicate with perioperative services daily to review case-specific needs and relay messages to peri-op staff.
PA REQUIREMENTS:
- Required: Operating room experience in women’s health, including OB/GYN and gynecologic surgery.
- Preferred: Experience in high-risk obstetrics, minimally invasive gynecologic surgery, and fertility procedures.
- Interest in or exposure to robotic-assisted surgery, reconstructive plastic surgery, and breast reconstruction.
- Graduate of an accredited PA program.
- Current PA licensure and NCCPA certification.
- Minimum five years of clinical experience in surgery or perioperative care.
- Preferred: Leadership or administrative experience.
- Strong interest in quality improvement, process optimization, and efficiency initiatives.
- Ability to understand and apply local, state, and regulatory policies, including Joint Commission standards and perioperative guidelines.
STRENGTH THROUGH DIVERSITY
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential
Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination
Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and create an inclusive, welcoming, and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong, and can professionally advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise, contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!
Qualifications
Graduation from Accredited Physician Assistant Program, Masters preferred
0-2 years of experience in clinical specialty of hire and/or new graduate from accredited PA Program
Employer Description
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.
Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history!
“About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek’s “The World’s Best Smart Hospitals” ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism.”
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