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PeaceHealth is passionate about growing the palliative care and hospice services at Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, Washington. We seek a Medical Director physician who is BC/BE in Palliative Care & Hospice Medicine. The PeaceHealth Palliative Care team is dedicated to easing the fears, anxieties, and discomforts that occur during the advanced stages of illness. Hospitalist teams are familiar with palliative medicine, and they are eager for more on-the-ground resources to meet their patients’ needs. The Medical Director will be responsible for operational leadership for all palliative care services within assigned region. Provides clinical leadership and expertise within the palliative care clinical team. Proactively identifies opportunities to improve experience, efficiencies, and effectiveness of care for patients and families as well as use of resources. Ensures compliance with legal, regulatory, policies and procedures. Acts as a point person for palliative care education.

Experience & Training Required: 

• Experience and success in leading and facilitating groups of physicians
  • Minimum of three (3) years clinical experience beyond board certification with preference of one (1) year of administrative experience.
  • Minimum of one (1) year working as part of an interdisciplinary team.
  • Management and leadership experience are preferred.

Why you’ll love the practice:

• Hospital consults physician position. This role focus on the inpatient unit and it will also have oversight for the outpatient program.
• Join a growing team of providers, with a daily inpatient census of 40-60 patients, and support from multiple trained clinicians, including NPs, RNs, and MSWs.
• On-site complex case management team, ethics partner, hospital chaplain, and including a partnership with the Ray Hickey Hospice House
• Opportunity to grow the service-line within the region

Experiencing Vancouver, Washington:

• Vancouver is located minutes from downtown Portland is a robust city with over 174,000 residents. You will be in a community voted as the friendliest walking & bicycling city in the United States! The city is known for its naturally beautiful scenery, abundant outdoor recreation, diverse cuisine, art walks, contemporary boutiques, and a vibrant farmers market- all nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Mountains. 2018 showcased Vancouver’s new 7.3-acre waterfront park that will feature shopping, fine dining, housing units, water sports access, parks, and a 90-cable pier overlooking the Columbia River.

A few of the benefits of our positions:

• Integrated physician-led medical group
• Medical home model with care teams and EPIC health records
• Competitive compensation plus signing bonus
• CME reimbursement & Relocation assistance
• Fully paid malpractice insurance
• Educational Loan Reimbursement Program for eligible providers
• Two excellent health coverage options
• Exceptional retirement plans plus optional supplemental plan for providers

About Us: PeaceHealth, based in Vancouver, WA, is a not-for-profit Catholic health system employing approximately 16,000 caregivers, a multi-specialty medical group practice with more than 1,200 providers and 10 medical centers serving both urban and rural communities in Washington, Oregon, Alaska. In 1890, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace founded what has become PeaceHealth. Today, the legacy of its founding Sisters continues with a spirit of respect, stewardship, collaboration and social justice in fulfilling its Mission. Click here to view: PeaceHealth System At a Glance and our benefits offered

For more information, please apply today or contact:
Lyndse Neppl, Physician Recruiter

LNeppl@peacehealth.org

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The above information is intended to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of caregivers assigned to this job.