Why Choose Us?
As a physician, you will need the training to recognize and address the ways in which inequity currently drives health and wellbeing. Knowing that 80 percent of health is determined by circumstances outside of the traditional clinical and hospital setting, the Family Medicine Residency at Saratoga Hospital has been created to educate, mentor, and provide you with the knowledge, leadership, population health, and broad-based community skills to confidently address health in a holistic and integrative way. We are the pioneers in our region leading this effort.
We Are Community Focused
- Outpatient continuity clinic in one of two community health centers
- Competency to perform a community needs assessment
- Meeting the patient where they live through mobile health, Backstretch Clinic, and telehealth
We Practice Innovative Medicine
- Proficiency in substance dependence treatment, point of care ultrasound
- Population health as foundation of community wellness
- Leadership skills to develop physician advocates for system change, to advance health equity for the communities we serve
We Deliver Integrated Care
- Multidisciplinary inpatient and outpatient team rounding
- Integration with behavioral health, addiction specialists, advanced practice clinicians, pharmacists, and care managers
Salary & Benefits
Salary Schedule
Year 1: $71,007
Year 2: $71,667
Year 3: $72,345
Benefits
Residents are eligible for individual or family medical, dental and vision insurance programs offered to Saratoga Hospital employees, with coverage commencing on the first day of employment. Any applicable premiums for which the resident will be responsible will be paid by the resident via payroll deduction. If the resident waives participation in Saratoga Hospital’s medical insurance benefit coverage, the resident must provide proof of alternative medical insurance coverage and maintain such coverage throughout the term of this agreement.
Residents are also eligible for the following additional benefits in accordance with the Saratoga Hospital Employee Handbook and other policies and procedures and applicable New York State law, as in effect from time to time: New York State Disability benefits, supplemental short-term disability benefits, long-term disability insurance, life insurance, 403(b) Plan, Employee Assistance Program, uniforms and laundry services, free parking in any Saratoga Hospital parking lot or garage in an area so designated, meal discounts/allowance, on-call rooms with housecleaning services, and use of lockers at Saratoga Hospital.
Facilities
- A member of the Albany Med Health System
- Acute care hospital in Saratoga County
- Provider of outpatient services, including urgent and primary care, state-of-the-art imaging, pain management, diabetes care, rehabilitation, and more
- Saratoga Hospital Medical Group provides care at over 20 locations
Saratoga Community Health Center
- Primary care, dental care, behavioral health, and addiction medicine
- NCQA-recognized patient-centered medical home model
- Patient-centered, coordinated care
- Primary, pediatric, and geriatric care
- Continuity site for three of six residents in each class
- Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) with a floor plan conducive to team-based care built in Glens Falls as part of Hudson Headwaters Health Network
- Continuity site for three of six residents in each class
- Serves full-spectrum care for all ages
- Physically attached to a comprehensive, all-inclusive care program for qualified seniors known as PACE
- Includes integrated team care model with collocation of nurses, patient service assistants, behavioral health specialists, care managers, advanced practice providers, and physicians
- State-of-the-art center built in 2020 to serve as sustainable rural health care model
- The rural health elective takes place here, with free housing provided to residents
- Part of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in upstate New York