Palliative Care Opportunity with Skilled Nursing Facility located in East Orlando and Apopka

Overview

AdventHealth Medical Group is seeking a dynamic Palliative Medicine physician to join our team within a growing system. The current open position is for a physician leader at the Adventhealth East Orlando and Apopka Skilled Nursing Facilities. The provider will join a full time APRN and LCSW to provide consultations for patients of AdventHealth in the skilled nursing facility. Clinical care expectations include: goals of care, family meetings and complex symptom management in the inpatient setting. The program strives to foster a growth mindset and appreciates its wide diversity of providers backgrounds including psychiatry, family medicine, critical care and internal medicine. 

Position Details:

• Schedule: Mon-Friday from 8-5 PM
• Locations: SNF’s at East Orlando (10 beds) and Apopka (50 beds)
• Ability to handle elevated emotions, goals of care and end of life conversations
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to supervise an APP (APRN)
• Occasional hospital coverage as needed

Requirements of the position include: 

• MD or DO
• Ability to receive an unrestricted Florida Medical License
• Strong clinical skills and desire to grow with the program
• Board certification in Hospice and Palliative Care or Hospice (if Board Eligible, certification must be obtained within 1 year of hire date)
• Eligible to participate as a provider in the Medicare and Medicaid programs (including any successor program to either)
• Fluent in Spanish (highly preferred not required)
• Experience working in nursing home or hospital setting (highly preferred)

Practice Description

This opportunity includes the benefits of call coverage and competitive compensation. Other benefits include occurrence-based malpractice coverage, paid leave days, CME days and allowance, 403b retirement plan, health insurance for physician and family, and relocation allowance. This practice is part of AdventHealth Medical Group. The Medical Group is a sister organization of AdventHealth which employs over 900 physicians and in 70+ specialties. This aligned model and practice management experience provides the opportunity for the physicians to focus on the clinical aspects of medicine.

At AdventHealth, Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ is our mission. It calls us to be His hands and feet in helping people feel whole. Our story is one of hope — one that strives to heal and restore the body, mind and spirit.

More than 80,000 skilled and compassionate caregivers in physician practices, hospitals, outpatient clinics, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies and hospice centers provide individualized, wholistic care.

Our Christian mission, shared vision, common values and focus on whole-person health is our commitment to making communities healthier with a unified system: 50 hospital campuses and hundreds of care sites in diverse markets throughout nine states.

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