Palliative Care Physician/Medical Director Opportunity in Beautiful, Coastal Southeastern Virginia

About the Company

Riverside Health Mission

Join us on the Chesapeake Bay coast of Virginia where sailing, fishing, championship golf, and outstanding schools are just a few reasons to consider relocating to our community!

About the Role

Practice Opportunity: Newport News

Riverside Health System's Lifelong Health (LLH) division is seeking a Palliative Care Physician/Medical Director to work with our interdisciplinary team at Riverside Regional Medical Center. In this exciting collaborative leadership role for Riverside Health System, you would:

Responsibilities

• Provide medical direction for an interdisciplinary palliative care consult team at Riverside Regional Medical Center, a 600-bed tertiary care hospital.
• Implement models of care within other hospitals, LLH facilities and outpatient services, including integration with Riverside Medical Group practices.
• Support development of palliative care protocols and pathways by working collaboratively with the Service Line Chief and RHS Physician and Nurse Leadership.
• Assist with recruitment of additional palliative care physicians and APPs.
• Enhance geriatric and palliative medicine education to attract medical students to Family Medicine and transitional residencies.

Qualifications

• Must be BC/BE in Palliative Care
• Unable to sponsor any visa providers

Position Highlights

• Part of the largest sub-specialty (Lifelong Health) in the Medical Group
• Monday-Friday only, with no weekends
• 12-14 patients a day, on average
• Oversee 3 Nurse Practitioners (offering home-based care)
• Medical Director role includes continuing to build the Palliative Care specialty
• 1 week of call every 2 months (telemedicine only)

Pay range and compensation package

• Guaranteed base salary with additional Medical Director stipend
• Worked RVU model
• Sign-on bonus
• Excellent benefits package
• Paid malpractice
• Relocation allowance
• 6-weeks PTO
• Annual CME allowance
• Riverside Health is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, qualified for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

Riverside Health Offers

• Five acute care hospitals
• Three specialty hospitals: Riverside Mental Health and Recovery Center, Riverside Rehabilitation Hospital in partnership with Select Medical, and Select Specialty Hospital
• Coverage area of 8,000 square miles in Coastal Virginia
• More than 9,500 team members/More than 700 clinical providers
• Integrative and complimentary oncology programs available
• Approximately 2,800 new cancers seen in 2023
• Over 110 Riverside Medical Group offices, as well as five Urgent Care facilities
• Two Lifeplan Communities, six nursing home facilities, six Assisted Living facilities
• Home Care - Home Health, Palliative Care, Hospice, and Private Duty Nursing
• Physical Therapy Clinics and Wellness Centers

The Virginia Lifestyle

• Fish, sail, or water ski on the James River or the Chesapeake Bay.
• Unique assortment of cultural and historical amenities as well as sophisticated dining and entertainment.
• Multitude of outstanding educational options; including local colleges and universities.
• Three airports to choose from.
• Urban, suburban and rural locations.

Riverside Health Medical Group is one of Virginia's largest and most diverse multi-specialty group practices. 700+ providers, across every clinical specialty and subspecialty, care for close to a half million patients. Many of the nation's top providers choose to practice medicine at Riverside.

For more information, please contact:

Todd Ellis

Physician Development

Riverside Health

757.784.7362

Todd.Ellis@rivhs.com

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