Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers
Queens Hospitals  
 
The Queens hospitals of Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers offer residency programs that are intellectually vigorous and clinically rich. Emphasis is placed on the pursuit of academic excellence and high quality patient care. Facilities include St. John�s Queens Hospital in Elmhurst and Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, along with Monsignor Fitzpatrick Skilled Nursing Facility in Jamaica.  
 
Residency Programs
 
All training programs are approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (A.C.G.M.E.). Completion of the entire program in any department fulfils the A.C.G.M.E. requirements for eligibility for examination by its respective board. 
 
Insurance
The SVCMC prescription drug plan shall provide prescription drugs to SVCMC house staff only, at no cost, when the prescription is for an illness that is of an emergency nature and issued for the House Staff Officer by the Personnel Health Service (PHS), or if the PHS is closed, prescribed and issued by the ER, such prescription not to exceed ten (10) days supply. All other prescriptions for house staff and their dependents shall be available at the SVCMC pharmacy at the cost of the drug plus ten percent (10%).
 
The Hospital shall contribute to the VH/HSBP an amount equal to the premium for Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverages (computed entirely at the community rate) and the VH/HSBP shall thereupon provide equivalent coverage. The "amount equal" shall not be decreased, and shall be increased if, and to the extent that, Blue Cross/Blue Shield increases the premiums that the Hospital would have paid for its House Staff Officers were the Hospital to provide such coverage directly at the community rate. VH/HSBP, in addition to providing suitable replacement Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverage of the type indicated from the "amount equal," may provide such other benefits as are permitted by VH/HSBP, such benefits to confirm to the extent possible with benefits not provided by CIR's existing HSBP 1. The Hospital shall make monthly payments to the VH/HSBP within thirty (30) days of the month for which contributions are due. The Hospital shall continue to provide New York State Disability Insurance as before.
 
Housing
Where SVCMC provides apartment rental for House Staff Officers, such rentals may not be increased, except by reasons of: increased costs of operation; taxes; increases mandated by law, order, or regulations of government agency or contract or mortgage; or increases in rent paid by SVCMC. And such increases shall be reported to the CIR together with the reasons for such increases, pursuant to the standards set forth above. SVCMC will continue to provide housekeeping services that are currently being provided for House Staff Officers who are single and living in such apartments provided by SVCMC in Parsons Manor. Coin-operated laundry machines will be maintained and continued to be provided in Parsons Manor.
 
Vacation
The vacation for all House Staff Officers shall be twenty (20) working days for the period from July 1 through the following June 29th. When, due to the needs of a given service, it is necessary to limit vacations, they may be limited to the extent of five (5) days only per House Staff Officer, at the discretion of his/her Chairperson and pay for lost vacation shall be granted. Anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, lesser vacation benefits may be provided when appropriate Specialty Boards require lesser vacation terms, and pay for lost vacation shall be granted. Anything to the contrary herein notwithstanding, pay in lieu of vacation shall be provided in the case of residents serving their last year of residence, where full House Staff coverage in the given service cannot, in the discretion of the appropriate Chairperson, be obtained.
 
Uniforms
SVCMC shall provide for laundering of uniforms and shall continue its past practice with regard to furnishing uniforms.
 
Upon request, House Staff Officers will be issued 3/4 length lab course in lieu of jackets.
 
All House Staff Officers in non-surgical specialties shall be provided with two (2) cloth scrubs every residency year.