Physician, Medical Doctor

VIA Health Partners is an industry leader and top-10 nationally ranked provider of end-of-life care. We are a community based, not-for-profit hospice & palliative care provider with deep community roots and decades of experience serving ALL patients’ and families’ needs regardless of ability to pay or medical complexity. We are a people-first organization whose funds go to serve our mission.

• Medical, Vision, and Dental plans through BCBS
• 28 days of Paid Time Off
• Excellent mileage reimbursement rate
• 403b Retirement plan with matching
• Focused programs honoring Veteran patients
• Assistance with achieving Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse (CHPN)
• Best Orientation and Onboarding program you’ve experienced

• Direct Patient Care:
  Review available medical information; take appropriate history of the present illness; and communicate with the patient’s attending physician to develop patient-focused plan of care.
• Physically examine patient to assess symptoms, evaluate progression of disease, and recommend modifications in the plan of care.
• In consultation with the patient’s attending physician, recommend appropriate laboratory and imaging studies to evaluate progression of illness and/or response to palliative therapies.
• Provide patients and their families with counseling, education, and psychosocial support.
• Assist patients and their families in establishing the goals of care.
• Facilitate family meetings when the presence of a physician will improve the outcome of the meeting.
• Communicate with hospice nurses to address pain and other symptom management issues.
• Communicate with the patient’s attending/referring physician to discuss patient management issues, including therapies outside of the usual hospice plan of care.
• Facilitate transfers to HPCCR hospice houses by communicating with the Medical Director.
• Serve as the attending physician for patients who choose the hospice physician as their attending physician.
• Submit billing and documentation according to policy.
• Provide on-call availability per employment agreement.

• Review and complete necessary administrative paperwork including death certificates, prescriptions, hospice orders, and hospice plans of care (485’s).
• Review and sign new hospice referrals for eligibility and, if necessary, request/obtain additional information to determine eligibility.
• Discuss patient pain and symptom management issues with hospice nurses as needed.
• Communicate with outside physicians when issues arise that require physician-to-physician discussions.
• Collaborate with the Director of Clinical Services to formulate a plan of care for patients whose needs are outside of the usual hospice plan.

• Through review of the documentation and discussion with IDT members, assess the efficacy of the plan of care for new admissions and for patients already under hospice care.
• Serve as an educational resource, in planned formal didactic sessions or in teachable moments, for IDT members.
• Evaluate ongoing eligibility of patients under hospice care through documentation review and IDT discussions.
• Recommend changes in the plan of care to improve symptom control and reduce suffering.
• Provide psychosocial support for other IDT members when emotionally or spiritually difficult patient care situations arise.
• May be a “physician designee” with the ability to sign/authorize in the absence of Medical Director.

Make determination to certify that a patient is terminally ill in consultation with the attending physician; recertify eligibility for hospice for subsequent election periods; make decisions regarding discharge from hospice when indicated. Submit all billing and documentation according to established policy. Participate in on-call responsibilities in accordance with the hiring agreement.

May perform other duties as required.

• Experience in the care of terminally ill patients is preferred but not required.
• Computer proficiency is required.
• Current CPR is required.