Hospice Palliative Care Opportunity in Western Colorado

• Serve as a hospice and palliative care physician
• providing medical expertise to the team, seeing patients for symptom management and assuring appropriate admissions and discharges.
• The work week consists of attending team meetings, making patient visits in patient’s homes and facilities, as well as conducting some visits by telehealth.
• Physicians also are available to the team nurses for medication orders and work in cooperation with the hospice PharmD.
• Schedules are flexible and allow for a work pace that supports not only excellence in patient care but job satisfaction.
• Employer was recognized as Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work (2021).
• Start ASAP- Permanent job opportunity
  
• Very well established almost 30 years
• Serves over 2,500 patients each year
• Join a staff of 425 people and more than 1,200 volunteers
• Outpatient and facility provides inpatient hospice care in its beautiful 13-room unit. The center provides bereavement and counseling support to adults, and grief support to children and teens through their kids program. 
• In 2021 a new service was launched - P.A.C.E. – Program for All Inclusive Care of the Elderly – that offers care in the home as an alternative to nursing home care.
• Practice consistently provides a higher standard of care per the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey than the majority of hospices in the United States.
• This is an award-winning organization.
  

The location

• Enjoy over 300 days a year of sunshine! Western Colorado has world class ski resorts, hiking, river rafting and mountain biking. 
• Home to towering monoliths and spectacular sheer-walled canyons.
• Year-round outdoor recreation as well as a ski resort.
• Lively downtown with restaurants, adventure stores
• Area is known for its wineries, peaches and music festivals.
• Competitive pay, excellent benefits, relocation reimbursement, and educational opportunities and medical malpractice insurance is also provided. 

 

 

Posted On: Thursday, February 3, 2022