Hospice & Palliative Medicine Physician

The Henry Ford Medical Group Division of Hospice and Palliative Medicine is seeking a physician for the role Senior Staff Physician in Hospice and Palliative Medicine. This position includes patient care, teaching, scholarly work, and clinical leadership within the Palliative Medicine Program at Henry Ford Hospital.

Highlights:

• Opportunity to practice at an institution with one of the largest graduate medical education programs in the US and a main teaching site for Wayne State University Medical School and Michigan State College of Human Medicine
• An experienced interdisciplinary palliative medicine team
• Well-established Palliative Medicine service (started in 2000) and an institutional culture that is highly receptive to palliative medicine
• Opportunities for work on the inpatient palliative medicine consultative service, inpatient hospice service, community hospice service, palliative medicine ambulatory clinic, and home-based palliative care

The physician will:

• Serve as an Attending Physician on the interdisciplinary inpatient Palliative Medicine Consultative Service at Henry Ford Hospital
• Supervise and train medical students, residents, fellows, and other interdisciplinary learners (serving as core clinical faculty for our ACGME- accredited Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program with 2 fellows per year)
• Participate in scholarly activities in education, quality improvement, and research

About Henry Ford Health System

Henry Ford Health System is committed to improving the health and well-being of our diverse Michigan community.

Founded in 1915 by auto pioneer Henry Ford and now one of the nation's leading health care providers, Henry Ford Health System is a not-for-profit corporation managed by Chief Executive Officer Wright L. Lassiter, III and governed by a 17-member Board of Trustees, with volunteer-led advisory and affiliate boards providing additional leadership.

It is comprised of hospitals, medical centers and one of the nation's largest group practices, the Henry Ford Medical Group, which includes more than 1,900 physicians practicing in over 40 specialties. The System's flagship, Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, is a Level 1 Trauma Center recognized for clinical excellence in cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics, sports medicine, multi-organ transplants and cancer treatment.

With more than 30,000 employees, Henry Ford Health System is the fifth-largest employer in metro Detroit, and among the most diverse.