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Hospice Medical Director (MD/DO)Inova Health System • Fairfax, VA, United States
Hospice Medical Director (MD / DO)

Hospice Medical Director (MD / DO)

Inova Health System • Fairfax, VA, United States
1 day ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

The Hospice Medical Director is responsible for overseeing the medical component of hospice care, ensuring that patients receive compassionate, high-quality end-of-life care. This role involves leadership, clinical oversight, regulatory compliance, and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams.

  • Serves as a Dyad leadership partner with the Neighborhood Director of Community Programs and Partnerships (DCPP).
  • Provides clinical care for hospice patients across all levels of care (General Inpatient, Continuous, Routine and Respite) in all settings of care, including inpatient hospitals, senior living communities and private homes.

Inova is consistently ranked a national healthcare leader in safety, quality and patient experience. We are also proud to be consistently recognized as a top employer in both the D.C. metro area and the nation.

Featured Benefits :

  • Committed to Team Member Health : offering medical, dental and vision coverage, and a robust team member wellness program.
  • Retirement : Inova matches the first 5% of eligible contributions - starting on your first day.
  • Tuition and Student Loan Assistance : offering up to $5,250 per year in education assistance and up to $10,000 for student loans.
  • Mental Health Support : offering all Inova team members, their spouses / partners, and their children 25 mental health coaching or therapy sessions, per person, per year, at no cost.
  • Work / Life Balance : offering paid time off, paid parental leave, CME days and CME Allowance
  • Hospice Physician Job Responsibilities :

  • Medical Leadership : As a Dyad Leader and member of Senior Leadership, the Medical Director :
  • Provides medical direction and supervision of patient care.
  • Participates in the Senior Leadership Meetings and Strategic Deployment Plan Meetings.
  • Assesses and reviews potential Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) members collaboration with DCPP.
  • Participates in recruitment, onboarding, training, education, supervision, and evaluation of IDT members and hospice medical staff.
  • Ensures compliance with legal, regulatory, and clinical policies, pathways, and procedures.
  • Clinical Care : Provides clinical care in various settings consistent with training, experience, and interests as outlined above.

  • Participates as a member of the interdisciplinary team to assure that interdisciplinary team functions are performed - including the development and implementation of written patient care plans with goals of care and individualized treatment plans.
  • Manages pain and other distressing symptoms using appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions.
  • Conducts face-to-face assessments to determine hospice eligibility and ongoing appropriateness of care.
  • Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams including nurses, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers.
  • Provides guidance on advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making.
  • Maintains accurate and confidential patient records.
  • Ensures compliance with state and federal hospice regulations.
  • IDT Performance : Goals-Of-Care and Plan-Of-Care. Assures that each IDT develops multidisciplinary goals of care and plans of care for each patient taken under care.
  • Supervision : Provider Performance Improvement . Provides behavioral and administrative supervision of the team physicians and ancillary providers. Serves as an expert in the integrative systems approach to the comprehensive care of the patient. Serves as a mentor to medical, nursing, and ancillary staff who care for hospice patients. Serves as an expert clinical resource when appropriate and consistent with training and experience. Refers clinical questions or concerns that are outside of the scope of the neighborhood provider to the medical and clinical leadership.
  • Access and Transitions of Care Process Improvement : Serves on a variety of leadership teams and committees to improve operations, ensure smooth transitions from one setting of care to another and from one specialty service to another and promote easy earlier access to hospice services.
  • Patient Experience and Quality Improvement : Works with DCPP to optimize the patient and family experience of the care. Works with quality team to define and lead quality improvement and outcomes activities.
  • Education : Participates in undergraduate and graduate medical education, and with other learners as determined by the medical leadership .
  • ONCALL : Participates in, and takes an equitable share of, weekend bedside duty and nighttime on-call activities.
  • Hospice Medical Director Additional Requirements :

  • Education : Graduate of an accredited school of medicine or osteopathy. (MD or DO degree). Completion of an approved American Board of Medical Specialties or American Osteopathic Association residency (Family Medicine, Internal Medicine preferred). Board Certified in Geriatric Medicine or Hospice & Palliative Medicine. Qualified but non-board-certified physicians with greater than 10 years of extensive experience in geriatric medicine or hospice & palliative medicine may be considered.
  • Experience : At least 5-7 years of direct relevant clinical care experience, preferably in general inpatient, senior living, and home hospice settings. At least 3-5 years of medical leadership experience, preferably in a hospice organization. Progressive leadership experience with demonstrated experience in cross-system and between system collaborations. Able to demonstrate direct involvement in a multidisciplinary team caring for the at-risk patient with advanced age, serious illness, or end-of-life circumstances.
  • Certification / Licensure : Current Virginia State license (or ability to obtain) to practice DEA, and CDS certificates. Must be able to meet the requirements for membership on the Inova Medical Staff.
  • Hospice Physician Preferred Qualifications :

    Demonstrated Leadership Skills

  • Knowledge of the programs and services in their geographic area
  • Strong collaboration skills
  • Demonstrated collaboration / partnerships with other healthcare or community service entities
  • Skill in using computers and a variety of personal productivity applications
  • Skill in oral and written communication
  • Skill in data analysis and interpretation
  • Ability to problem solve effectively
  • Ability to develop goals, objectives, critical paths, systems, new programs and policies and procedures
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