Palliative Care Physician - Louisville, KY

The Norton Palliative Care, a part of Norton Healthcare, is seeking a board-certified and fellowship-trained palliative care physician to join its growing team. Norton Palliative Care currently provides services at 3 facilities, with plans to expand to other facilities. This is a team of collaborative health care providers offering inpatient and outpatient services to our patients.

The ideal candidate will join a interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurse practitioners, social workers, and palliative care nurses. The team has access to hundreds of specialists, including board-certified and fellowship-trained oncologists and researchers. This group completes an average of 10,800 patient visits a year.

Palliative care providers work with several service lines across the Norton Healthcare system to partner on palliative care services with hospitalists; intensivists; hospice providers; and emergency room, pulmonary, cardiovascular and cardiology providers. They also collaborate with Norton Cancer Institute Resource Centers and Norton Healthcare's behavioral oncology and supportive care programs.

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About the Position

• Must be fellowship-trained, board certified or board eligible
• Primary work schedule is Monday through Friday
• Team of seven days on/seven days off advanced practice providers at each facility provide full-time coverage and cover after-hours calls
• Inpatient and outpatient care settings
• Work with nationally accredited services including Commission on Cancer-accredited Norton Cancer Institute and DNV Healthcare-accredited Norton Heart & Vascular Institute Advanced Heart Failure & Recovery Program
• Norton Cancer Institute is one of the largest comprehensive oncology practices in the region, offering medical oncology/hematology, radiation oncology, gynecologic oncology, neuro-oncology, surgical oncology, orthopedic oncology, oncologic dermatology, behavioral oncology and genetic counseling services
• Competitive salary, opportunities for quality, sign-on and/or retention bonuses
• Relocation assistance available for those who qualify
• Norton Healthcare employee benefits, including paid malpractice insurance and retirement contributions

About Norton Healthcare - Norton Children's

Norton Healthcare is a leading not-for-profit hospital and health care system serving adult and pediatric patients across Greater Louisville, Southern Indiana, the commonwealth of Kentucky and beyond. The system has six hospitals in Louisville — including Norton Children’s Hospital, which is a Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center and the region’s only full-service, freestanding, dedicated pediatric hospital — and three hospitals in Southern
Indiana.

With nearly 24,000 employees, over 1,750 employed medical providers and more than 3,000 total providers on its medical staff, Norton Healthcare is Louisville’s second largest employer. It provides care at more than 480 locations throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana. The six Louisville hospitals have a combined total of 1,907 licensed beds, and the Southern Indiana hospitals have 347 licensed beds. Services include inpatient and
outpatient general care as well as specialty care in heart, neuroscience, cancer, orthopedics, women’s health and pediatrics. The system also includes 10 outpatient centers, 20 Norton Immediate Care Center locations and an expanded telehealth program. A strong research program provides access to clinical trials in a wide range of areas.

Norton Healthcare is proud to be recognized nationally for excellence as a top employer and health care leader. Recent honors include:
• Forbes: America’s Best Employers for Company Culture, America’s Best Employers by State, America’s Best Large Employers, America’s Best Employers for New Grads
• Fortune: America’s Most Innovative Companies
• Newsweek: America’s Greatest Workplaces, America’s Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare, America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women, America’s Greatest Workplaces by State, America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion & Diversity, America’s Greatest Workplaces for Mental Wellbeing