What are the responsibilities and job description for the Physician, Palliative Medicine (PHSPC - Palliative Care) position at UPMC Pinnacle?
Supportive Care and Palliative Medicine Physician
UPMC in Central Pa. — a growing, 7 hospital, multisite health care system — is seeking a physician to join the Supportive Care and Palliative Medicine program to provide inpatient and outpatient palliative medicine to patients with serious, chronic illness at our UPMC Central Pa Hospitals.
We offer a competitive salary with an array of benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance, relocation services, potential sign-on bonus, and a three-year retention bonus — just for starters.
Opportunity:
- Join a successful program including 4 physicians and 10 APPs who provide consultative palliative care services including serious illness discussions, symptom management, and collaboration of care for patients with advanced medical conditions
- Collaborate with consulting providers of many specialties and disciplines caring for patients in the ICU, medical, and oncologic care setting
- Actively identify opportunities to improve the patient and family care experience
- Provide ongoing educational opportunities with resident physicians, as well as medical, nursing and CRNP students
- Full time position-Monday-Friday with weeklong call (1:9) shared among physicians and nurse practitioners (by phone only)
- Both inpatient and outpatient opportunities available
- Flexible schedule, full-time or part-time position
Professional Skills:
- Board-certified/Board-eligible in Palliative Medicine
- Must be able to assess, evaluate, plan, and implement care in complex and life limiting situations
- Must be capable of offering specialized knowledge and skill to all members of the health care staff
- Must have the ability to balance emotionally challenging situations in the context of serious medical illness
- Team oriented with the ability to provide personalized patient care as well as family support and demonstrate clinical outcomes
- Will consider 2025 palliative fellowship graduates for candidacy
Professional Skills:
- Competitive salary
- Health, life, and disability insurance
- Medical malpractice insurance
- Defined contribution plan; 403(b) plan with employer match
- Professional dues and CME time
About South Central Pennsylvania
- Features both rural and suburban living and boasts an abundance of sports, arts, cultural events, and entertainment. Close to historically significant areas such as Gettysburg and world-famous Hersheypark and Hershey's Chocolate World.
- Offers top-rated public schools, blue-ribbon private schools, and some of Pennsylvania's top colleges and universities.
- Area school districts are consistently ranked in the top 20% of Pennsylvania.
- With affordable homes — a composite cost of living index of 99.7, compared to 101.2 in Philadelphia — it's a great place to grow a career and family.
- Listed among Forbes.com “America's Most Livable Cities,” and ranked in U.S. News & World Report's “Best Cities to Live” in 2017, we are a two- to three-hour drive away from New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.
About UPMC in Central Pa.
UPMC in Central Pa. is a nationally recognized leader in providing high-quality, patient-centered health care services in central Pennsylvania and surrounding rural communities. As part of the UPMC not-for-profit system, UPMC in Central Pa. cares for more than 1.2 million area residents yearly, providing life-saving emergency care, essential primary care, and leading-edge diagnostic services. UPMC in Central Pa. includes seven acute care hospitals with 1,160 licensed beds, over 160 outpatient clinics and ancillary facilities, more than 2,900 physicians and allied health professionals, and approximately 11,000 employees. It is a health care hub serving Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry, York, Lancaster, Lebanon, Juniata, Franklin, Adams, and parts of Snyder counties.
