Job: ADMIN MEDICAL DIRECTOR-HOSPICE

ADMIN MEDICAL DIRECTOR-HOSPICE

Requisition Number: 26425

Location: NM - Albuquerque

Type of Opportunity: Regular Full-Time

FLSA Classification: EXEMPT

Minimum Experience: 5 years

Minimum Education: MD

Shift: Varied

Assures mission, goals and strategy of PHS are being met via strategic planning, operational management and financial accountability in areas of responsibility
· Provides and maintains effective communications with the physician community, PHS leadership, PHH leadership, Hospice staff, and patients and the community. .

· Develops and recommends goals and objectives and assists in establishing and implementing policies and procedures for the Hospice Program.

· Provides leadership across all facilities and locations within the PHS Network regarding Hospice, Pain Management and End of Life issues. Assists PHH in the establishment of a palliative care program within the PHS system.

· Serves as a medical resource to interdisciplinary team members. Provides 24/7 coverage for the Hospice Program for both the Inpatient Unit and outpatients.

· Complements the attending/primary physician's care without assuming primary care management unless required to do so by either the primary physician or the patient/family.

· Assures overall continuity of the hospice program's medical services.

· Administrative and general supervisory activities include, but are not limited to, the following:
· Participating in the establishment, review and updating of plan(s) of care during weekly IDT meetings.
· Supervising care and services and approving admissions of complicated or questionable patients thus ensuring appropriateness of care.
· Intervenes with the primary physician if there is a question about palliative versus curative treatments.
· Serves on the Professional Advisory Committee for PHH and chairs the Hospice Medical Advisory Committee.
· Approves medical treatment or medications that are questionable for hospice services in conjunction with hospice clinical mangers.
· Provides advice regarding best practice pharmaceutical management of patients.
· Participate in education of staff and physicians.

· Performs other functions as required.

M.D./D.O. in Oncology or Internal Medicine or Family Practice required. Five or more years experience.