Full Job Description

1Care Hospice is the fastest growing hospice and pediatric palliative care companies in Nevada. OneCare offers patients compassion, personalized, and quality care throughout Nevada. OneCare Hospice brings comfort, dignity, and peace to help people with a life-limiting illness live every moment of life to the fullest while providing support for loved ones. We perform hospice care in the home, nursing home or assisted-living community.

We believe that exceptional end-of-life care can only happen when highly trained, experienced professionals are dedicated to listening to patients and their families, focused on respecting their ideas, and committed to making a difference. All of our employees are hand-picked to fulfill our vision.

Do you have compassion and a passion to help others? Transforming hospice and palliative care and hundreds of lives as a result starts with the values you embrace and the passion you bring to achieve our mission and philosophy through patient-focused, personalized care. If so, We are looking for an experienced Hospice and Palliative Medical Director to provide excellent care and support to terminally ill patients and our pediatric palliative care patients.

In this role, you will will provide oversight of physician services by complementing attending physician care, acting as a medical resource to the interdisciplinary group, assuring continuity of hospice medical services, and assuring appropriate measures to control patient symptoms. The Medical Director will serve as a hospice champion – promoting and representing the program to physicians, physician groups, discharge planners, other referral sources, community health organizations, and potential donors, as appropriate.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Providing overall medical direction to the program
• Assuring that the established policies, bylaws, rules, and regulations of the organization are followed in the program
• Adhering to requirements, terms, and conditions required by Medicare Conditions of Participation, accrediting body, and federal and state statutes governing the provision of services
• Establishing and continually reviewing policies and procedures related to patient care, medical education, and emergency procedures
• Developing and continually reviewing, in cooperation with the CEO/Executive Director/Administrator and/or Chief Clinical Officer/Clinical Director, criteria to monitor the quality of the education programs provided to physicians, personnel, and volunteers
• Evaluating quality assessment performance improvement (QAPI) plans and monitoring to identify medical education needs in cooperation with the CEO/Executive Director/Administrator and/or Chief Clinical Officer/Clinical Director. Participates in QAPI teams and activities, as needed
• Proposing organizational programs to address the needs identified (with the assistance and input of consultants of the specialties where medical education needs were identified)
• Working with the CEO/Executive Director/Administrator and/or CCO/Clinical Director, after implementation of the programs, to determine the impact of said programs on the quality of care
• Serving as a hospice champion in the community
• Acting as a liaison to community physicians by providing consultation and education to colleagues and attending physicians related to admission criteria for hospice and palliative care
• Acting as medical liaison with other physicians at OneCare Hospice
• Providing training regarding the medical aspects of caring for terminally ill patients to physicians, personnel, and volunteers
• Reviewing patients’ medical eligibility for hospice services, in accordance with hospice program policies and procedures, and establishing the plan of care in conjunctions with attending physician and interdisciplinary group prior to providing care written certification of terminal illness
• Providing written certification of the terminal illness for all subsequent benefit periods
• Performing face-to-face encounters within thirty (30) days of the third and subsequent hospice benefit certification periods and attest to the encounter. (NP may complete the encounter and report findings to the hospice physician.)
• Consulting with attending physicians regarding pain and symptoms management for hospice patients
• Managing oversight of the patient’s medications and treatments
• Acting as medical resource to the hospice interdisciplinary group
• Attending interdisciplinary group meetings and working in a team approach with the group
• In conjunction with the attending physician and interdisciplinary group, reviewing and updating the plan of care at least every 15 days, or more frequently as needed
• Documenting care provided in the patient’s clinical record, providing evidence of progression of the end-stage disease process
• Acting as primary physician for patients whose referring/attending physicians desire to relinquish that care and/or if the referring/attending physicians are not available for further contact
• Maintaining current knowledge of the latest research and trends in hospice care and pain/symptom management
• Reviewing and developing protocols for treatment, and proposing the most current options for interventions
• Demonstrating knowledge in communications, and counseling patients and family/caregivers dealing with end-of-life issues
• Participating in resolution of interpersonal conflict and issues of clinical and ethical concern

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role.

Required Qualifications:

• Licensed as a PEDIATRIC Doctor of Medicine or Osteopathy in the state without restriction or subject to any disciplinary or corrective action.
• Maintains controlled substances registration with state and federal authorities.
• Have experience in hospice or palliative care and/or training in end of life care.
• Participates in ongoing medical education activities related to the medical care of hospice and palliative care patients.
• Not excluded from participating in the Medicare program

Medical Specialty:

• Hospice & Palliative Medicine

Schedule:

• Full Time

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Choose your own hours
• Day shift

Experience:

• Hospice/Palliative: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• DEA Certification (Required)
• Pediatric Physician Licensure in Nevada (Required)

Work Location: In person