What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Director - Hospice position at Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care?
The Medical Director at Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care has the honor of leading and growing a team dedicated to ensuring patients experience dignity and comfort in their final moments. We believe that no one should die alone. Our commitment to going above and beyond for each individual is not just a professional duty but a heartfelt mission.
Balancing clinical excellence with operational resources and constraints requires constant vigilance, compassion, and adaptability, a challenge our leaders embrace with dedication and resilience. Together, our interdisciplinary team, united by a shared purpose and sense of community, aims to create a supportive environment where every patient receives the best possible care at the end of their life.
Medical Director Hospice Responsibilities:
- Assumes overall responsibility for the medical component of the palliative client care program and supports the hospice program.
- Be responsive to the medical community to ensure high-quality, appropriate, and efficient utilization of hospice services.
- Assist in investigations of important problems in patient care and clinical performance.
- Assist the Agency in the coordination of patient care between clinical staff and patients' attending physicians.
- Acts as the Physician Representative of the interdisciplinary group (IDG) and/or attending physician to certify and recertify for subsequent election periods that the patient is terminally ill.
- Current MD or DO
- Legally authorized to practice medicine in the state of practice.
Medical Director Hospice Benefits:
- Be part of a team willing to grow, listen, be heard, and be challenged.
- Health, Dental, Vision, 401k, PTO.
- Set the industry standard of care.
- Continuing Education Reimbursement.
- Ability to grow into various roles inside our team and organization.
- Competitive industry pay.
