UPMC Pinnacle — a growing, multisite health care system — is seeking a physician to join the supportive care and palliative medicine program to provide inpatient and outpatient palliative medicine to patients with serious, chronic illness at the UPMC Pinnacle Cancer Institute within our expanding regions of Carlisle, Hanover, Harrisburg, Lancaster, and York.
We offer a competitive salary with an array of benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, relocation services, potential sign-on bonus, and a three-year retention bonus — just for starters.
Opportunity:
Join a successful program including four physicians and four certified nurse practitioners who provide pain and nonpain symptom management and advanced palliative care for patients as they receive care from their primary care or specialist team
Actively identify opportunities to improve the patient and family care experience
Improve the effectiveness of resources as used in management of symptoms, complex chronic medical, and social issues Flexible schedule, full-time position
Teaching opportunities with IM residents, as well as nursing and CRNP students
Shared call 1:8
Faculty appointment with UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Professional Skills:
Board-certified/Board-eligible in palliative medicine
Must be able to assess, evaluate, plan, and implement care in complex and life limiting situations
Must be capable of offering specialized knowledge and skill to all members of the health care staff
Must have the ability to balance emotionally challenging situations in the context of serious medical illness
Team oriented with ability to provide personalized patient care as well as family support and demonstrate clinical outcomes
Will consider 2019 palliative fellowship graduates for candidacy
Benefits:
Medical malpractice insurance
Defined contribution plan; 403(b) with employer match
Professional dues and CME allowance
Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays
To Apply
UPMCPinnacle.com/Providers. Click on “Current Physician Opportunities.”
Contact:
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Features both rural and suburban living and boasts an abundance of sports, arts, cultural events, and entertainment. Close to historically significant areas such as Gettysburg and world-famous Hersheypark and Hershey's Chocolate World.
Offers top-rated public schools, blue-ribbon private schools, and some of Pennsylvania's top colleges and universities. Area school districts are consistently ranked in the top 20 percent of Pennsylvania. With affordable homes — a composite cost of living index of 99.7, compared to 126.5 in Philadelphia — it's a great place to grow a career and family.
Listed among Forbes.com “America's Most Livable Cities,” and ranked in U.S. News & World Report's “Best Cities to Live” in 2017, we are a two to three hour drive away from New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.
About UPMC Pinnacle
UPMC Pinnacle is a nationally recognized leader in providing high-quality, patient-centered health care services in central Pennsylvania and surrounding rural communities. Its more than 2,900 physicians and allied health professionals and approximately 11,000 employees serve a 10-county area at outpatient facilities and eight acute care hospitals with 1,360 licensed beds: Carlisle, Community Osteopathic, Hanover, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Lititz, Memorial, and West Shore. The not-for-profit system anticipates caring for more than 1.2 million area residents in FY 2018. For more information, visit www.UPMCPinnacle.com.
