Job: Assoc Med Dir, Hospice

Assoc Med Dir, Hospice

Requisition Number: 29106

Location: NM - Albuquerque

Type of Opportunity: Regular Full-Time

FLSA Classification: N/A

Minimum Experience: 5 years

Minimum Education: MD

Shift: Varied

* 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 established required 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. Prefer board certification in hospice and palliative medicine. Must be willing to become certified.

Requires detailed knowledge of Hospice or care of the terminally ill. This individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span of patients served.

Mental Power: Ability to make decisions that require significant analysis and investigation with solutions requiring significant original thinking.
Mental Power: Ability to determine appropriate courses of action in more complex situations that may not be addressed by existing policies, procedures or protocols. Decisions include such matters as changes in staffing levels, order in which work is done, and application of established procedures.
Physical Power: Walks, sits, stands in place, arm/wrist/hand movement, lifts.