1. Banking Facilities: Chase Manhattan Bank maintains branch offices in the Medical Center. It offers special packages to house staff.
2. Child Care Center: The Hospital sponsors a child care center for the care of infants, toddlers, and pre-school children.
3. Emergency Loan Fund: The Hospital has a revolving loan fund available to meet the emergency needs of house staff.
4. Medical Benefits:
   1. Employee Health: Columbia-Presbyterian's Occupational Health Service is available to house staff who wish to consult with a variety of attending physicians.
   2. Physician Care : For their personal health care needs, housestaff may choose any physicians they wish within the organization or within the network of their health insurance plans.
   3. Mental Health Services: The house Staff Mental Health Service (HSMHS) has been created to provide House Staff with immediate access to confidential, affordable psychiatric care with experienced clinicians.
   4. Emergency Services: The New York Presbyterian Emergency Departments at Columbia University Medical Center (168th Street), The Allen Hospital (5141 Broadway), and New York Weill Cornell Center (68th Street) should be used by housestaff for serious emergencies at all times, and for urgent needs during nights/weekends/holidays. If Occupational Health Services are closed, you should also use the Emergency Departments for evaluation of a workplace injury including needlesticks.
5. Insurance: The Hospital provides generous insurance benefits for house staff and their dependents. Coverage includes:
   1. Health Insurance: The Hospital offers a choice of health insurance plans. Each plan provides hospitalization, outpatient medical care, prescription drugs, and preventive care through a network of participating medical providers. Out-of-network benefits are available.
   2. Dental Insurance: The Hospital provides a dental care plan for house staff physicians and their dependents.
   3. Vision Care: The Hospital provides a vision care program for house staff and their dependents.
   4. Disability Insurance: The Hospital provides a disability insurance program designed especially for house staff.
   5. Term Life Insurance: The Hospital provides twice the house staff´s annual salary in life insurance.
   6. Malpractice Insurance: The Hospital provides malpractice insurance for professional medical activities that are performed at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital within the scope of an approved training program.
   7. Dependent Term Life Insurance: House staff have the option to purchase insurance of spouses and dependents.
6. Parking: The Hospital maintains several parking facilities available to house staff. Costs vary.
7. Salary: Residents at each level of training are paid a competitive and graded salary that compensates for the higher cost of living in New York.
   
   

                                         2010-2011 Salary Scale 

(Effective July 1, 2010)

   

Resident Level	Annual Salary
1	$50,772
2	$53,368
3	$56,487
4	$58,230
5	$60,396
6	$63,160
7	$65,179

1. Sick Days/Maternity Leave: Members of the house staff are entitled to 30 paid sick days annually. The Hospital provides for generous maternity leave.
2. Housing: There is a housing office that can help residents locate housing.
3. Other Benefits:
   1. Financial Planning
   2. Legal Assistance
   3. Mass Transit & Communter Parking Flexible Spending Accounts
   4. Voluntary Tax Sheltered Annuity Program (TSA)
   5. The 529 College Savings Program