Physician - Palliative Care - Grand Rapids, MI

Corewell Health • Grand Rapids, MI

23h • Onsite

About The Position

The Inpatient Palliative Care team is seeking a compassionate Physician to join them providing consults to hospitalized adult patients. You will join a growing group of physicians, advance practice providers, nurses, chaplains, and social workers along with administrative support. Qualities needed for this role are compassion, flexibility, and a true desire to help your patients. As a Palliative Care physician you will work with our interdisciplinary team by providing health literacy, ascertain goals and then collaborate to find an appropriate treatment for patients. The Palliative Care team can manage symptoms, facilitate goals-of-care discussions, and coordinate with other healthcare providers to improve patient outcomes, reduce length of hospital stay, and enhance overall patient and family and provider satisfaction. People are at the heart of everything we do, and the inspiration for our legacy of outstanding outcomes, innovation, strong community partnerships, philanthropy, and transparency. Corewell Health is a not-for-profit health system that provides health care and coverage with an exceptional team of 65,000+ dedicated people—including more than 12,000 physicians and advanced practice providers and more than 15,500 nurses providing care and services in 21 hospitals, 300+ outpatient locations and several post-acute facilities—and Priority Health, a provider-sponsored health plan serving more than 1.3 million members. Through experience and collaboration, we are reimagining a better, more equitable model of health and wellness.

Requirements

• Compassion, flexibility, and a true desire to help your patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide both symptom management and goals of care conversations to often newly diagnosed patients and family members.
• Coordinate comprehensive care delivery.
• Assesses the patient’s/significant other’s, health care team’s, educational needs and develops, implements, evaluates and revises teaching strategies/educational programs related to area of specialty.
• Ensures that operations are in compliance with professional standards, applicable laws, accreditation, compliance/regulatory requirements and that organizational goals are being followed.
• Practices in accordance with the Michigan Public Health Code.
• Delivers care in a manner that is culturally sensitive and preserves patient autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Acts as a patient advocate, crossing multidisciplinary lines to meet patient needs
• Communicates, collaborates, networks with and acts as a consultant to other members of the health care team within and outside Corewell Health.
• Acts as a consult in area of expertise.
• Documents in the medical record and dictates information as appropriate.
• Provides input into the strategic planning, implementation and evaluation of service/program.
• Measures the outcomes of care and evaluate services across the continuum of inpatient to outpatient services.
• Makes recommendations to improve the quality of patient care provided and utilizes the scientific method to research clinical problems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health, and work/life balance goals.
• On-demand pay program powered by Payactiv
• Discounts directory with deals on the things that matter to you, like restaurants, phone plans, spas, and more!
• Optional identity theft protection, home and auto insurance, pet insurance
• Traditional and Roth retirement options with service contribution and match savings

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree