About the Company
Riverside Health Mission: To care for others as we would care for those we love.
Join us on the Chesapeake Bay coast of Virginia where sailing, fishing, championship golf, and outstanding schools are just a few reasons to consider relocating to our community!
About the Role
Practice Opportunity: Newport News
Riverside Health System’s Lifelong Health (LLH) division is seeking a Palliative Care Physician/Medical Director to work with our interdisciplinary team at Riverside Regional Medical Center. In this exciting collaborative leadership role for Riverside Health System, you would:
Responsibilities
- Provide medical direction for an interdisciplinary palliative care consult team at Riverside Regional Medical Center, a 600-bed tertiary care hospital.
- Implement models of care within other hospitals, LLH facilities and outpatient services, including integration with Riverside Medical Group practices.
- Support development of palliative care protocols and pathways by working collaboratively with the Service Line Chief and RHS Physician and Nurse Leadership.
- Assist with recruitment of additional palliative care physicians and APPs.
- Enhance geriatric and palliative medicine education to attract medical students to Family Medicine and transitional residencies.
Qualifications
- Must be BC/BE in Palliative Care
- Unable to sponsor any visa providers
Position Highlights
- Part of the largest sub-specialty (Lifelong Health) in the Medical Group
- Monday-Friday only, with no weekends
- 12-14 patients a day, on average
- Oversee 3 Nurse Practitioners (offering home-based care)
- Medical Director role includes continuing to build the Palliative Care specialty
- 1 week of call every 2 months (telemedicine only)
Pay range and compensation package
- Guaranteed base salary with additional Medical Director stipend
- Worked RVU model
- Sign-on bonus
- Excellent benefits package
- Paid malpractice
- Relocation allowance
- 6-weeks PTO
- Annual CME allowance
- Riverside Health is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, qualified for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
Riverside Health Offers
- Five acute care hospitals
- Three specialty hospitals: Riverside Mental Health and Recovery Center, Riverside Rehabilitation Hospital in partnership with Select Medical, and Select Specialty Hospital
- Coverage area of 8,000 square miles in Coastal Virginia
- More than 9,500 team members/More than 700 clinical providers
- Integrative and complimentary oncology programs available
- Approximately 2,800 new cancers seen in 2023
- Over 110 Riverside Medical Group offices, as well as five Urgent Care facilities
- Two Lifeplan Communities, six nursing home facilities, six Assisted Living facilities
- Home Care - Home Health, Palliative Care, Hospice, and Private Duty Nursing
- Physical Therapy Clinics and Wellness Centers
The Virginia Lifestyle
- Fish, sail, or water ski on the James River or the Chesapeake Bay.
- Unique assortment of cultural and historical amenities as well as sophisticated dining and entertainment.
- Multitude of outstanding educational options; including local colleges and universities.
- Three airports to choose from.
- Urban, suburban and rural locations.
Riverside Health Medical Group is one of Virginia’s largest and most diverse multi-specialty group practices. 700+ providers, across every clinical specialty and subspecialty, care for close to a half million patients. Many of the nation’s top providers choose to practice medicine at Riverside.
For more information, please contact:
Todd Ellis
Physician Development
Riverside Health
757.784.7362
Todd.Ellis@rivhs.com
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