Salwa Gerges
Salwa Gerges, MD
Chief Medical Officer
NYC Health + Hospitals/Sea View
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Leading the Best Nursing Home in New York State
After serving for more than 20 years in clinical and leadership roles in geriatric settings throughout Brooklyn, Dr. Salwa Gerges joined NYC Health + Hospitals/Sea View as Chief Medical Officer in 2021. In her four years in the Staten Island facility, she has been a change agent whose leadership has helped Sea View earn a CMS 5-star rating and recognition as the best nursing home in New York State by Newsweek the past two years.
Dr. Gerges has overseen patient-care improvements including significant reductions in the use of anti-psychotic medications and antibiotics. The improvements led Sea View to be honored with the highest recognition by the American Medical Directors Association’s Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.
Dr. Gerges grew up in Egypt and earned her medical degree there. It was during those years that a painful family event put her on the path to her life’s work. “My father had a stroke and I have always looked to help elderly patients and patients with dementia since then,” she said. She trained and practiced in the United Arab Emirates for a decade before coming to the United States.
Apart from her accomplishments as a clinician and medical leader, Dr. Gerges is a dedicated educator with faculty appointments at SUNY Downstate, Albert Einstein and the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing. Even after 25 years, she says, “I have a constant urge to teach and to give to patients a new generation of providers.”