Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Palliative Medicine Physician Needed in Kenner, LA
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Location
Kenner, LA | United States
Job description
Are you ready to continue to make a difference at Ochsner and live our values of Patient's First, Compassion, Integrity, Excellence, & Teamwork?
The Department of Palliative Medicine, at Ochsner Kenner is seeking a PALLIATIVE MEDICINE PHYSICIAN to join our expanding team.
Qualifications
- Candidates must be HPM or HMD board eligible physicians. Fellowship trained preferred. Board certification must be achieved within 2 years of hire.
- Salary offered will be commensurate with experience and training.
Details
- Provide an extra layer of support to patients with serious illness
- Consults: in-patient and out-patient.
- Provide medical care related to symptom management.
- Participates in interdisciplinary team to develop a written plan of care.
- Develop and facilitates goals of care conversations for patients in the inpatient and outpatient setting.
- Actively participates in process improvement related to system and department goals.
- Participate in specialty team meetings.
- Serve as collaborating physician to advanced practice providers
- Develop and staff outpatient clinic with advance practice providers and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
- Participate in educational initiatives for University of Queensland/Ochsner Clinical school medical students, residents as well as nursing and other allied health professionals training at Ochsner Health
- EPIC electronic health record system wide.
- Opportunity to develop a growing palliative medicine department within Ochsner Health. On track for a palliative medicine fellowship summer 2021
- Competitive Compensation Package
- Complete benefits package
- Relocation Allotment
- This is an employed opportunity with Ochsner Health
Ochsner Kenner, is staffed with one APP that delivers Palliative Care to the patients in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. We need a supervisory MD to elevate the program there as well. Ochsner Kenner is located to the west of New Orleans.
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Ochsner is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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