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Center to Advance Palliative Care
Hospice & Palliative Medicine Physician — Inpatient
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What they do
A Medical Director directs and manages a medical practice, clinic, lab or public health program. Organizes and manages of staff physicians, policy implementation, and ensures that standards for medical care are communicated and maintained.
$262,262 / year median in Virginia
+11% projected growth
Job Description
Where Mary Washington Healthcare Fredericksburg, VA, United States Salary Range (Annual Salary) $245,000 + Description Mary Washington Healthcare is seeking a Hospice & Palliative Medicine Physician to join its growing service line in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This is an opportunity for a physician who is passionate about palliative and end-of-life care, complex symptom management, and helping patients and families navigate goals-of-care and end-of-life decisions. The Opportunity In this inpatient-focused role, you will provide comprehensive palliative medicine consultations for patients with serious, advanced, life-limiting, and end-stage illnesses. You will also provide physician coverage and management for Hospice General Inpatient (GIP) patients, ensuring regulatory and hospice standards are met.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities:
- Assess, diagnose, and manage pain and complex symptoms, including dyspnea, delirium, nausea, anxiety, depression, and fatigue, and other distressing conditions.
- Facilitate goals-of-care, code-status, advance-care-planning, and shared-decision-making conversations with patients and families.
- Support patients and families through serious, advanced, life-limiting, and end-stage illness and end-of-life care.
- Providing medical oversight for Hospice GIP patients.
- Supervise, mentor, and collaborate with Advanced Practice Providers.
- Work closely with physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, pharmacists, therapists, and care managers.
- Participating in interdisciplinary rounds, family meetings, ethics consultations, and care conferences.
- Participate in quality improvement, performance improvement, regulatory compliance, and program development initiatives.
- Serve as an expert resource regarding palliative medicine, hospice eligibility, symptom management, end-of-life care, and ethical decision-making.
Qualifications Required:
- MD or DO from an accredited medical school
- Completion of an accredited residency program
- Fellowship training in Hospice & Palliative Medicine or Board Eligible in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
- Expertise in symptom management, serious-illness communication, advance care planning, and end-of-life care
- Ability to supervise and collaborate effectively with Advanced Practice Providers.
- Current unrestricted Virginia physician license or eligible for Virginia licensure.
- Current DEA registration
- BLS certification
- Board certification or board eligibility in
Hospice & Palliative Medicine Preferred:
- Inpatient palliative care experience
- Hospice physician, associate medical director, or hospice medical director experience
- Experience with APP supervision
- Experience with quality improvement, physician education, and program development
- Hospice Medical Director Certification (HMDCB) Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: $245,000
- Goals-Based bonus
- Sign-on bonus
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Retirement plans including 403(b) with employer match and optional 457(b)
- Annual CME allowance
- Malpractice insurance with tail coverage included
- Join a forward-thinking Hospice and Palliative team where clinical excellence, collaboration, and innovation are at the core of everything we do.