Great Palliative Care Physician Opportunity-Banner Desert Medical Center

Palliative Care Physician

Banner Desert Medical Center

BANNER HEALTH, one of the country’s premier, nonprofit health care networks and BANNER MEDICAL GROUP (BMG), Banner Health's employed physician group, with more than 1,500 physicians and advance practice providers, has an excellent opportunity for a compassionate, skilled clinician to join our interdisciplinary team! This position serves the growing Phoenix metropolitan area at Banner Desert Medical Center. 

Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the qualified candidate will provide primarily inpatient care helping patients and their families deal with serious life-threatening illness and symptom management.

Requirements, features, and schedule include:

• BC/BE in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
• Fellowship training strongly preferred.
• Monday through Friday work schedule
• Desire and ability to help grow Palliative Care within the community.
• Build collaborative relationships and provide education to colleagues and patients.
• Comfortable working independently in a new start-up program
• Hospital privileges at Banner Boswell Medical Center, Banner Thunderbird Medical Center, Banner Del Webb Medical Center, and Banner Estrella Medical Center

Banner Desert Medical Center (BDMC)- serves as a tertiary referral center for the East Valley of metropolitan Phoenix and treats the highest levels of acuity in the East Valley. The campus has 669-bed private rooms, with 248 beds dedicated to children (Cardon Children's Medical Center). It is ranked as one of the top five hospitals in Phoenix, and recognized for eight high-performing specialties, according to U.S. News Best Regional Hospitals report. Located in Mesa, Arizona, in the heart of the East Valley of metropolitan Phoenix. It is Arizona's third largest city and enjoys the diverse people, cuisine and cultural amenities of one of the West's great urban areas.

Join the Banner Health Team, where you will have the time to connect with your patients, your practice, your family, and the great outdoors! We offer dedication to work/life balance unmatched in our industry. Meaning you get to spend more time doing what you love. That’s HEALTH CARE made easier; LIFE made better!

Banner Health offers competitive salary and recruitment incentives, along with an industry leading benefits package that provides security for you and your family, including:

• Sign base plus incentives
• Sign on incentive and relocation assistance
• Paid malpractice
• Paid CME
• 401K plan with 4% match after 1 year
• Excellent benefit package options that provide security for you and your family 

Banner Health is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, or veteran status except where such distinction is required by law. All positions at Banner Health are security sensitive and subject to examination of criminal history record information. Smoke-free and drug-free environment. Not a J1 opportunity.

Banner Desert Medical Center is the largest, most comprehensive hospital in the East Valley of metro Phoenix. The campus has 669-bed private rooms, with 248 beds dedicated to children (Cardon Childrens Medical Center). There are currently 1,200 physicians representing 65 specialties. This 80-acre medical campus includes one of the largest and most comprehensive Cardiac Care Programs in Arizona; a Women's Health and Wellness Center with a Level III designation for obstetric, prenatal and neonatal services; a Cancer Center that is the largest provider of cancer care in the East Valley; and 53 Critical Care beds, including 7 CVICU beds, a 22-bedmedical ICU and a 24-bed surgical transition ICU. OR Services, the busiest ED in the state, an Ortho & Sports Rehab Center and an impressive Medical Imaging department all demonstrate Medical Excellence..

Areas of excellence include:

• Acute Care
• Cardiology
• Emergency medicine
• General surgery
• Gynecology
• High risk pregnancy
• Neonatal care
• Neurosciences
• Obstetrics
• Oncology
• Pulmonary medicine
• Rehabilitation
• Renal disease
• Robotic surgery
• Urology

High tech and high touch
As one of the largest acute care facilities in the East Valley, Banner Desert offers state-of-the-art technology in all departments, from our two da Vinci Surgical robots to our 3D cancer technology. Our campus is also host to iCare, a telehealth program that provides an extra layer of monitoring for patients in intensive-care units at Banner Desert and throughout the Valley at other Banner hospitals. To balance our high-tech campus, Banner Desert also offers unique integrative therapies, from Dog Therapy, Music Therapy and Massage Therapy to The Oasis Spa, a hospital-based sanctuary offering a team of highly skilled, licensed practitioners who will assist you in reducing stress, renewing energy and restoring a sense of well-being.  Banner Desert employs more than 3,700 health care professionals and support staff. The facility has a medical staff of more than 1,200 physicians representing 65 specialties.

Mesa, AZ
Founded in 1878 by Mormon pioneers, the city of Mesa was built on a plateau overlooking an expansive valley. The word mesa has it origins in the Spanish language and its literal translation is "table top." The city is located just 15 miles from Phoenix and is home to more than 430,000 people. The city has numerous historic areas including the Temple District. This area of town surrounds the Later Day Saints(LDS or Mormon) Temple, which was built in 1927. The temple and its visitor's center attract more than two million visitors each year. ?Other area attractions include the many museums and art galleries, year-round golfing, and historic Hohokam Indian sites. Spend an evening with the Mesa Symphony Orchestra or attending a play performed by the Southwest Shakespeare Company. If you like baseball, Mesa is the spring training home of the Chicago Cubs.  Nearby areas offer mega shopping malls, numerous factory outlets, wonderful restaurants of every sort, dozens of top-rated golf courses, Indian gaming centers, medical services, and many more attractions including Biosphere II, Boyce Thompson Arboretum, the Arizona Science Center, Kartchner Caverns, Saguaro and Canyon Lakes and of course, the beautiful Grand Canyon.