PRN (as needed)
Mostly weekend hours available:
Mostly "on call" from home: 5pm Friday - 8am on Monday
or
8am/9am - 4pm/5pm
Serve as a member of Choices Healthcare Medical Services and Palliative Medicine Team. Provide clinical and organizational leadership across settings in hospice and palliative care. Provide hospice and palliative care consultations and visits in home, clinic, inpatient, and hospital settings. Participate in the development and implementation of medical policies, procedures, and protocols. Comply with state and national regulations. Instruct medical students, residents, fellows, and other health professionals. Represent Choices Healthcare in interactions with physicians, hospital staff, nursing home staff, and others in the community.
Provide consultations and subsequent visits for Choices Healthcare and Palliative Medicine patients.
Document visits and services according to agency standards for communication and billing.
Help assure agency compliance with state and federal regulations.
Consult with attending physicians and, when involved interdisciplinary teams, establish plans of care.
Provide critical thinking and clinical judgment to ensure care plans are medically appropriate, individualized to meet physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs and reflect the goals of care of patients and families receiving hospice and palliative care services.
Prescribe medications according to state and federal standards, following organizational policies for prescribing of controlled substances.
Ensure plans meet Choices Healthcare and Palliative Medicine standards and guidelines and are consistent with accepted hospice and palliative care standards.
Participate in the provision of around-the-clock hospice and palliative medicine services, including on-call responsibilities and weekend/holiday coverage.
Represent Choices Healthcare in interactions with physicians, hospital staff, nursing home staff, and others in the community.
Instruct medical students, residents, fellows, and other health professionals seeking hospice and palliative care education.
Provide medical direction regarding Choices Healthcare financial responsibility for medications, treatments, and procedures.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania.
Must be Board eligible and/or maintain certification in their primary specialty. Must also be Board eligible and/or maintain certification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine or as a Hospice Medical Director (by the Hospice Medical Director Certification Board). Has demonstrated interest, knowledge, and skills in palliative care.
Team oriented with ability to provide personalized patient care as well as family support and demonstrate clinical outcomes. Must be able to assess, evaluate, plan, and implement care in complex and life limiting situations.
Able to effectively communicate verbally and in writing, and to motivate, lead, and provide specialized medical direction, particularly in a team setting and also in physician-to-physician relationships.
Must have working knowledge of computer based programs and have the ability to learn and navigate the computer system and platforms.
Current driver's license in the state of Pennsylvania. Able to make home visits to patients as it relates to Community Based Palliative Care.
Member in good standing on the medical staff(s) of accredited hospitals in the Hospice & Community Care service area.
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Hospice of Central PA (HCP) was founded in 1979. The organization’s mission is provide the highest quality of emotional, physical and spiritual support with compassion and respect. HCP envisions a community that embraces specialized care at the end of life with the same importance that is given at the beginning of life.
Started by a small group of individuals concerned about care for the dying, our agency was one of the pioneers of the hospice concept nationwide and the first hospice in Central Pennsylvania. In the mid 1990’s we responded to patients requiring more support then they could get a home, but who still wished to remain in a home-like setting. We opened Carolyn's House, HCP’s hospice residence in Harrisburg in 1996. This six bed residence, located on a serene, wooded setting, is the first and only stand-alone hospice residential facility in Central Pennsylvania.
Our caring and supportive staff and volunteers serve all of Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry and Schuylkill Counties. We also serve northern York County and areas of Adams and Lebanon Counties. We care for patients and families in the most rural townships, as well as in the cities and surrounding suburbs and boroughs.
Hospice of Central PA is an independent non-profit, community based organization. We work closely with hospitals and other health care facilities. Our agency is a United Way Program Partner with United Way of the Capital Region (www.uwcr.org) and United Way of Carlisle and Cumberland County (www.carlisleunitedway.org). We also receive funding from the Carlisle Area Health and Wellness Foundation (www.cahwf.org). In addition, we enjoy a broad range of support from individuals, corporations, churches, private foundations and other organizations.
