Physician - Palliative Medicine - Douglasville, GA

Overview

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

Responsibilities

Wellstar Medical Group is seeking a board certified/board eligible MD/DO to provide palliative medicine at Wellstar Douglas Hospital.

Requirements:

• Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician (MD/DO)

• Schedule: 7 on/7 off

• Location: Wellstar Douglas Hospital

We are seeking intelligent, passionate providers, who will share our values to serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice.

• Wellstar Palliative Medicine is proud to be the most comprehensive palliative medicine program in Georgia.
• Wellstar Health System and it’s more than 24,000 team members provide access to compassionate, high-quality care through 11 hospitals; 300+ medical office locations; 9 cancer centers; 74 rehabilitation centers; 3 hospice facilities; 1 retirement village; 29 imaging centers; 17 urgent care locations; and 5 health parks.

Teamwork
• Our greatest strength is our highly trained team of compassionate, board-certified physicians, APPs and social workers who expertly address our patients’ global needs and provide high-quality care.
• We emphasize mentorship of new providers, early career support and professional development, as well as provider wellness.

Variety of Practice Settings
• We have inpatient consult teams at 5 hospitals in our system, offering academic, urban and suburban practice settings.
• An expanding outpatient presence with our comprehensive care clinics, including the addition of a second palliative medicine clinic in LaGrange, GA, in summer 2021.
• A dedicated nursing home palliative medicine team.
• An expanding home-based palliative care program led by 4 experienced APPs that covers 28 zip codes in northwest metro Atlanta.

Educational Opportunities
• Opportunities for teaching and system-wide advancement of the mission of Palliative Medicine.
• Our GME program at Kennestone hospital includes a Palliative Medicine fellowship program that accepts 4 fellows a year, with residents from other GME programs rotating throughout the year.
• Support for continued education of Palliative Medicine providers.

Valued Members of the Healthcare System
• Palliative Medicine is valued at the highest levels across the system with support for program expansion and investment in Palliative Medicine services.
• The benefits of early Palliative Medicine involvement are well demonstrated by various QI initiatives in close collaboration with our ICU, heart failure, LVAD team, oncology, hospital medicine and emergency medicine colleagues.

Care Across the Continuum
• We know that each patient is unique, and our program offers expert comprehensive care and support at any stage of the healthcare journey.
• Outpatient clinic and inpatient consultation services can help patients make the transition to home-based palliative care and hospice, when indicated.
• Our nationally recognized end-of-life care with Wellstar Hospice is equipped to provide our three inpatient hospice units, under three board-certified hospice medical directors.