Albany Med Health Retains Kirby Partners for VP Search

We’re pleased to be starting a search for Albany Med Health to fill their Vice President of IT Clinical Systems.

Albany Med Health System is a four-hospital system and the only regionally governed, not-for-profit health system serving three million people in northeastern New York and western New England.

Comprised of Albany Medical Center, Columbia Memorial Health, Glens Falls Hospital, and Saratoga Hospital, the Albany Med Health System has a century-long tradition caring for its communities. 

Albany Med Health System has 1,520 hospital beds, more than 800 physicians, 125 outpatient locations, and is supported by a longstanding affiliation with the Albany Visiting Nurses, providing services to patients of all the System hospitals.

The hospitals, physicians’ practice offices, and urgent care centers of the Albany Med Health System retain their own unique identities for the communities they serve. Each hospital maintains its own name, leadership, employees, board and fundraising team.

Albany Med is Northeastern New York’s only academic medical center and the centerpiece of medicine, research, and medical education in the region and one of the area’s largest private employers.

Albany Med incorporates the 766-bed Albany Medical Center Hospital and Albany Medical College, which trains the next generation of doctors, scientists and other healthcare professionals. The college includes a biomedical research enterprise and the region’s largest physicians practice with 500 doctors. 

In 2020, Albany Med researchers received more than 250 grants totaling more than $20 million to study numerous conditions, including the novel coronavirus.

Albany Med includes: 

• Regional Trauma Center
• Regional AIDS Treatment Center
• Regional Resource Center
• Region’s most sophisticated Emergency Department
• Air medical transport service (LifeNet)
• Region’s only kidney and pancreas transplant program
• Children’s Hospital, including peds and neonatal ICUs, and the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders

Albany, New York, ranked #16 “Best Places to Live in 2020,”  by Livability.com, is a great place to live and raise a family with many affordable housing options in the city or countryside.

Conveniently located near Lake George, Lake Placid, and the Catskill Mountains, there are plenty of outdoor recreation opportunities. Plus, Albany is only a two and a half hour’s drive from Manhattan and Boston, and about three hours away from Montreal.

The VIce President search is being led by Bryan Kirby. A more detailed position description and application can be found here.