As a Hospice Physician with Providence Hospice Oregon, you'll join a skilled interdisciplinary team dedicated to providing coordinated, comprehensive hospice care to patients and families. This team is seeking a board-certified physician for an on-call position. Providence Hospice Oregon, the largest not-for-profit in Oregon, is part of a growing integrated Home and Community Services program which collaborates with Home Health, Palliative Medicine, Geriatrics as well as hospital-based practitioners to care for patients and their families.

• Outpatient, community-based Hospice
• On-Call, non-benefited position
• Serve as clinical lead for interdisciplinary hospice team made up of nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, and chaplains
• Providences provides malpractice liability insurance coverage

Where You'll Work

Providence Home Hospice has four service locations with an average daily census of 450 patients. As one of the first programs of its kind in the region and a community leader in health care, Home Hospice is connected to five Providence hospitals in the Portland metro area. Its providers, registered nurses, chaplains, social workers and other team members provide everything from pain control and comfort care to emotional, social and spiritual support for patients and their support networks.

Where You'll Live

Portland is rich in character and culture, with strong neighborhood identities and community bonds that defy its population of 2.3 million. Home of the Portland Trail Blazers, "Rip City" is ranked No. 8 in the Best Places to Live by U.S. News & World Report, based on its high quality of life and thriving job market. A foodie mecca, Portland is ideally situated between waterfalls, beaches, Mt. Hood skiing and hiking trails, forests and the Columbia River Gorge.

Who You'll Work For

Providence is a nationally recognized, comprehensive health care organization spanning seven states with a universal mission - to provide compassionate care to all who need its services, especially the poor and vulnerable. Its 119,000-plus caregivers/employees serve in 51 hospitals, more than 800 clinics and a comprehensive range of health and social services. Providence: one name, one family, one extraordinary health system.

Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veteran

Job ID Number: 15720