Exciting Opportunity to Craft Your own Palliative Care Practice !

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide inpatient consultation services in palliative care
• Facilitate clarification of patient and family goals of care
• Consult with the attending physician, interdisciplinary team, and patient  to establish a written plan of care focusing on symptom relief
• Education of staff and coworkers
• Full and appropriate documentation of patient care services to support professional billing for these services
• Weekly participation in interdisciplinary team meetings to review active cases.
• Assist in the development of standards of care

Key Characteristics of the Person in this Role:

• Compassionate
• Excellent communication skills
• Interest in chronically or terminally ill patients and families regarding goal setting, symptom management, and end of life care

Interdisciplinary Team:

• The person in this position will work closely with the palliative care nurses, chaplain and social workers as a team to consult and provide care for patients needing palliative care

 Compensation & Benefits:

• Highly competitive compensation
• Excellent annual salary, plus incentive bonuses, along with our outstanding benefit package including:  paid malpractice and licensure, health, dental, and vison, CME, relocation, matched retirement savings, and more.
• Sign-on bonus and student loan forgiveness negotiable.

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Community:

Janesville is a mid-sized city offering a safe, family-oriented community with excellent schools and abundant recreational opportunities. Janesville lies just 12 miles north of the Illinois border, 35 miles southeast of Madison, and 110 miles northwest of Chicago and is on the Interstate I-90 corridor providing easy access to metro areas and international airports. Janesville is Wisconsin's Park Place, with over 2,500 acres of beautiful parkland and twenty acres of breathtaking botanical gardens. Twenty percent of Wisconsin’s buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places can be found in Janesville. The community also offers live theatre, an award-winning water-ski show team, and unique shopping and dining.

Contact:

Winny Elizabeth Sadana

Physician Recruiter, Provider Recruitment & Retention

Mercyhealth –Serving Northern IL. And Southern WI.

wsadana@mhemail.org

Mercyhealth is a regional health system with over 700 employed physician partners, seven hospitals and 85 primary and specialty care locations throughout 50 northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin communities. We are committed to being a top integrated health care provider and continuously work to make life better for the people, families and communities we serve.

As an integrated health care provider, we provide exceptional, coordinated health care that spans four core service divisions: hospital-based services, clinic-based services, post-acute care and retail services, and a wholly owned insurance company. These four core service divisions make up our comprehensive, vertically integrated delivery system, and integrated delivery is what makes Mercyhealth unique in serving the full range of health care needs for our patients.

Mercyhealth offers over 85 specialty and subspecialty services, including orthopedic surgery, prehospital emergency services and training, neurosurgery, heart and vascular services, cancer care, plastic and reconstructive surgery and much more. When time is of the essence, our trauma centers are equipped with the latest technology and highly trained staff to provide immediate, life-saving care. We are a leader in obstetric, neonatal and pediatric services, offering the highest level of care available at our neonatal intensive care unit, caring for the most fragile preemies in the region’s only Small Baby Unit, and serving as a State of Illinois-designated Perinatal Center for an 11-county region.