Palliative Care Specialist, Part-Time

BAYADA Hospice is immediately seeking a part time Hospice Physician to join our Integrity Missouri Springfield Hospice team.

BAYADA Hospice provides the highest quality end-of-life care so our patients can remain at home with comfort, grace, and dignity. With a variety of care and comfort services delivered through an interdisciplinary team of health care professionals and volunteers, the goal of hospice is to support a patients quality of life. We are currently hiring a part time Hospice Physician to join our team of dedicated, compassionate caregivers to collaborate with office and field staff to ensure excellent client service, clinical care, quality and adherence to policies, procedures, hospice eligibility documentation, and Medicare Conditions of Participation. In this integral leadership role, you will manage hospice Associate Medical Directors, consulting physicians and collaborating mid-level providers. You will have the opportunity to improve access to hospice services through business development, networking, and educational outreach to physicians, hospitals, facilities, and community groups.

We want you to leverage your compassion for patients and families, collaborative nature, and strong sense of integrity as a key member of the BAYADA team! You will have ample support, while doing rewarding work and continuing to be challenged.

Primary Responsibilities for a Hospice Physician :

• Oversee, coordinate, review and evaluate the medical care provided to Hospice patients
• Manage terminal illness and conditions related to the terminal illness of Hospice patients
• Assist with admissions and discharges
• Document patient care services and all other treatment services rendered in accordance with policies and procedures and Medicare rules
• Serve as a key medical resource to hospice staff, patients, families, and attending physicians regarding pain and symptom control management
• Function as the attending physician as needed
• Provide hospice and / or palliative care consultations pursuant to the attending physicians orders, or as requested; provide visits to Hospice patients
• Participate as a member of an Interdisciplinary Team
• Facilitate family meetings
• Actively participate in Hospice's senior leadership meetings and strategic planning
• Some on-call required (by phone only)

Minimum Qualifications for a Hospice Physician :

Why you'll love BAYADA :

Established in 1975, BAYADA is a non-profit organization that has never been sold, caring for an average of 44,000 clients weekly with 31,500 employees onboard. BAYADA is serving clients in 21 states, 373 offices, 6 countries and growing!!!

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As an accredited, regulated, certified, and licensed home health care provider, BAYADA complies with all state / local mandates.

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BAYADA Home Health Care, Inc., and its associated entities and joint venture partners, are Equal Opportunity Employers. All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, military status, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.