Palliative Care Physician Job in Virginia Beach, VA

Full Time Job Opening near Virginia Beach, VA for Palliative Care Physician now available.

Palliative Medicine - Medical Director located in Virginia Beach suburbs

Duties as Palliative Physician (70%):

Provide specialized care to patients with serious chronic illnesses
Help patients and families improve quality of life by addressing symptom needs and defining care goals
Facilitate coordination of care
Provide inpatient consults and palliative care medicine referrals
Daily palliative census is 18-24
Team oriented, multidisciplinary group including nurse practitioners, licensed clinical social workers
Full time, 8am, to 5pm. No on call currently
Opportunity for paid Hospice call

Duties as Medical Director (30%):

Provides clinical leadership and expertise to the palliative medicine team
Serves as collaborating physician for advance practice clinicians/nurse practitioners
on the palliative medicine team
Oversight of the work of the palliative medicine clinical team members
Regular team meetings to discuss programmatic/operational and staff issues
Collaboration with administrative leadership related to strategic planning,
budget development and quality metric development and monitoring to evaluate program effectiveness

GJ-2011-86608

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