Emergency Dept. Psychiatrist

Responsibilities

• Conduct emergency psychiatric evaluations and risk assessments.
• Manage patients experiencing psychiatric, substance use, and behavioral health crises.
• Provide crisis stabilization, medication management, and treatment recommendations, including for inpatient psychiatric behavioral codes.
• Determine appropriate levels of care, including inpatient admission, observation, outpatient treatment, and community-based services.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to coordinate safe discharge and continuity of care.
• Support quality improvement, patient safety, and behavioral health initiatives.
• Participate in the development of innovative psychiatric emergency services.

Qualifications

• MD or DO from an accredited institution.
• Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry.
• Unrestricted New York State medical license (or eligibility).
• Completion of an accredited Psychiatry Residency Program.
• Experience in emergency psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, crisis services, or related behavioral health settings preferred.
• Strong clinical judgment, collaboration skills, and commitment to patient-centered care.

About the Role

A compassionate, collaborative, and clinically skilled Emergency Department Psychiatrist is sought to join our growing behavioral health services team at MidHudson Regional Hospital, part of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth). This role involves providing rapid psychiatric assessment, crisis intervention, and treatment planning for patients presenting evenings, overnight, and weekends with behavioral health, substance use, and psychiatric emergencies in a fast-paced emergency department environment. Additionally, you will respond to behavioral crises on the hospital’s inpatient psychiatry service. You will work alongside emergency physicians, nurses, and behavioral health clinicians to ensure safe, timely, and effective care for some of our community's most vulnerable patients.

Facility Info

WMCHealth has been a leading provider of comprehensive behavioral health services for the Hudson Valley for over 90 years. As the region’s leading provider of Mental Health and Addictions Treatment Services, we offer a full spectrum of inpatient, outpatient, community, and emergency care for individuals and families. Our facilities include the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, home care services, and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State. WMCHealth is the preeminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley, employing over 12,000 people and having nearly 3,000 attending physicians.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, including paid vacation time, CME, and malpractice insurance.
• An academic appointment to New York Medical College, if appropriate.
• Collaboration with and support of an integrated team of Behavioral Health professionals.