Training Sites
- Montefiore Medical Center Geriatrics Acute Care Service
- Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Geriatrics Ambulatory Practice
Fellows are assigned a continuity panel of patients for whom they are the primary provider. The fellows' practice is integrated into the Einstein Division of Geriatrics Faculty Practice, in our state-of-the-art Medical Arts Pavilion located on the Montefiore campus. Our mission is to provide comprehensive geriatric care to community dwelling elderly within the framework of Geriatrics Fellowship training. The Geriatric practice stresses a multi-disciplinary approach towards patient care. The goal is to maintain our patients independently in the community as long as is possible. The evaluation is tailored to the individual patient and includes a complete history and physical exam, a mental status exam, functional status assessment, psychosocial history and discussion about advanced directives. - Robert and Joyce Menschel Geriatric Home Visiting Program
Fellows are assigned a continuity panel of patients for whom they are the primary provider. The Home Visiting Program provides comprehensive medical care to frail, homebound older adults in the Bronx. Home visits are made with the interdisciplinary program faculty, and care is discussed at monthly meetings. - Geriatrics Orthopedics Co-Management Services-Wakefield Campus
Fellows are assigned to the Geriatrics-Orthopedics Co-Management service, which provides comprehensive care for older adults with trauma of the lower extremities . Fellows also participate in both Preoperative Medical Assessments (POMA) and perioperative care for orthopedics surgery. - Center for the Aging Brain (CAB) The CAB is part of the New York State Department of Health Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease in the Hudson Valley Region. Fellows work with an interdisciplinary team comprised of geriatrics, neurology, neuropsychology, social work, geriatric psychiatry and physiatry to provide comprehensive consultative care for older adults with cognitive complaints.
- King’s Harbor Multicare Center
King’s Harbor provides long-term and short-term skilled nursing care for more than 700 residents in the Bronx and is the primary site for geriatrics fellowship training in subacute care for older adults. - Additional Training Sites: Fellows also rotate at clinical practices and research facilities affiliated with Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and other community sites.