Palliative Care - Medical Director
Full Time
Baltimore, MD
Position Summary:
MedStar Health offers a uniquely rewarding career in a major marketplace. Shape your future in health care in the kind of setting that's right for you and your practice. Become part of an organization that welcomes your experience, input, and leadership—as a clinician and healthcare expert.
The MedStar Health Palliative Care program has an integrated, patient-centric, and interdisciplinary model of care distributed throughout the Baltimore-Washington region. With over 50 team members, MedStar Health has one of the largest palliative care programs in the country.
By joining MedStar Health, you will receive many great benefits, to include:
- Guaranteed base compensation
- Signing and other bonuses
- CME paid time off and stipend
- Much more!
The goal at MedStar Health is to provide patients with easy access to highly qualified physicians focused on an excellent patient experience, while delivering world-class quality care.
Position Highlights:
- Be a part of the largest and strongest academic community hospitals in the region.
- Ability to care for medically complex patients.
- Join a very strong, supportive, and experienced team.
The candidate will be the on-site Medical Director and enjoy providing clinical care at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center. MedStar Franklin Square has a growing interdisciplinary consultation team, including two nurse practitioners, one pharmacist, and two social workers. The position will be 90% clinical and 10% Medical Director.
As a MedStar Palliative Care physician leader, you will:
- Build effective relationships with referring physicians, identify opportunities to improve patient care, and improve efficiency and effectiveness of the service.
- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and clinical policies and procedures.
- Demonstrate best practices and actively engage in teaching other team members and learners in the process.
- Collaborate with others as appropriate to ensure that palliative clinical protocols, utilization review, case management, quality assurance, and compliance programs are implemented according to hospital policies.
Be a part of a nationally-recognized health system and the largest provider of health services in the Baltimore/Washington region. With our vast resources and capabilities at your disposal, you can expand your clinical expertise. Enjoy a rich career and a quality of life unique to Baltimore and the mid-Atlantic region, which features a mix of urban, suburban, and rural communities.
MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center
9000 Franklin Square Dr.
Baltimore, MD 21237
Providing the Highest-Quality Health Care
MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center provides comprehensive, technology-based surgical services, offering the latest, most innovative treatment for patients with a wide range of medical conditions. Our distinguished specialty service lines include medicine, oncology, bariatrics, cardiology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, neonatal intensive care, behavioral health, plastic/reconstructive surgery, and ambulatory services.
Between 2010 and 2020, our medical center has invested over $300 million in a campus modernization strategy, including a new inpatient tower, emergency department, NICU, and state-of-the-art surgical pavilion.
Accredited by The Joint Commission, MedStar Franklin Square is certified as a Primary Stroke Center and is working on expanding into a Comprehensive Stroke Center and Comprehensive Neurovascular Center.
Be the physician/provider you were meant to be, here at MedStar Health.
www.joinmedstar.com
We are not accepting inquiries or solicitations from 3rd party recruiters/search firms.
Why join MedStar Medical Group?
We are a progressive, forward-thinking organization that enables you to define your own future—by region, specialty, or professional interest. We are also among the nation’s 15 largest medical groups, with the resources of highly respected MedStar Health behind us. We are collaborative, too. Your input and opinions concerning quality of patient care, your practice and this organization truly matter. You’ll also find balance here. We work hard, but we also value our personal lives and pursuits beyond the workplace. If you want an exciting career that is always challenging, always rewarding, apply now.
Similar Opportunities
Explore Careers
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore and its suburbs, as well as the surrounding rural areas, offer a unique blend of history, culture, and the arts—and, of course, the beautiful Chesapeake Bay. Downtown beckons you with its popular Inner Harbor, highly rated restaurants, theater, nightlife, and major league sports teams. The suburbs offer a great selection of homes in welcoming neighborhoods with excellent schools, shopping, and family activities. Rural areas are accented by quiet rolling hills, lush forests, and charming small towns. MedStar Health hospitals serving Baltimore include MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital, MedStar Harbor Hospital, and MedStar Union Memorial Hospital.
