Great Palliative Care Physician Opportunity-Banner Desert Medical Center

Palliative Care Physician

Banner Desert Medical Center

BANNER HEALTH, one of the country's premier, nonprofit health care networks and BANNER MEDICAL GROUP (BMG), Banner Health's employed physician group, with more than 1,500 physicians and advance practice providers, has an excellent opportunity for a compassionate, skilled clinician to join our interdisciplinary team! This position serves the growing Phoenix metropolitan area at Banner Desert Medical Center.

Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, the qualified candidate will provide primarily inpatient care helping patients and their families deal with serious life-threatening illness and symptom management.

Requirements, features, and schedule include:

• BC/BE in Hospice and Palliative Medicine
• Fellowship training strongly preferred.
• Monday through Friday work schedule
• Desire and ability to help grow Palliative Care within the community.
• Build collaborative relationships and provide education to colleagues and patients.
• Comfortable working independently in a new start-up program
• Hospital privileges at Banner Boswell Medical Center, Banner Thunderbird Medical Center, Banner Del Webb Medical Center, and Banner Estrella Medical Center

Banner Desert Medical Center (BDMC)- serves as a tertiary referral center for the East Valley of metropolitan Phoenix and treats the highest levels of acuity in the East Valley. The campus has 669-bed private rooms, with 248 beds dedicated to children (Cardon Children's Medical Center). It is ranked as one of the top five hospitals in Phoenix, and recognized for eight high-performing specialties, according to U.S. News Best Regional Hospitals report. Located in Mesa, Arizona, in the heart of the East Valley of metropolitan Phoenix. It is Arizona's third largest city and enjoys the diverse people, cuisine and cultural amenities of one of the West's great urban areas.

Join the Banner Health Team, where you will have the time to connect with your patients, your practice, your family, and the great outdoors! We offer dedication to work/life balance unmatched in our industry. Meaning you get to spend more time doing what you love. That's HEALTH CARE made easier; LIFE made better!

Banner Health offers competitive salary and recruitment incentives, along with an industry leading benefits package that provides security for you and your family, including:

• Sign base plus incentives
• Sign on incentive and relocation assistance
• Paid malpractice
• Paid CME
• 401K plan with 4% match after 1 year
• Excellent benefit package options that provide security for you and your family

Banner Health is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, disability, or veteran status except where such distinction is required by law. All positions at Banner Health are security sensitive and subject to examination of criminal history record information. Smoke-free and drug-free environment. Not a J1 opportunity.

About Banner Health

You want to help lead change in the health care field – rather than just react to it. You want to spend your time doing what you do best – caring for patients. You belong at Banner Medical Group (BMG) and Banner – University Medicine Group (BUMG).As Banner Health's employed physician group with more than 1,300 physicians and advanced practitioners across more than 65 specialties, BMG, is transforming the delivery of care. This transformation can most clearly be seen in our Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) implementation. Through PCMH, we’re organizing care around patients, working in teams and coordinating and tracking care over time. The end result is the highest quality and most efficient delivery of patient care.For physicians working in their own practices, we have two different paths to lead you to a colorful career with Banner Health.We also offer faculty positions at Banner – University Medicine Center in partnership with the University of Arizona.