Palliative Care Physician - Hackesnack, New Jersey

Hackensack Meridian Health seeks a BE/BC Palliative Care Physician for inpatient and outpatient services. Under the supervision of the Palliative Care Medical Director, the faculty member will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide excellent clinical care. The successful candidate will join a system-wide effort to ensure integrated palliative care, including development and implementation of clinical protocols and best practices across various patient populations. 

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Opportunity Highlights:

• Join a successful program that is Joint Commission Advanced Certified in Palliative Care
• Consists of an interprofessional clinical team; physicians, APNs, RNs, and SWs who provide pain and non-pain symptom management and speciality palliative care for patients as they receive care from their primary care or treatment team
• Identify opportunities to enhance the patient and family experience
• Optimize resource utilization for complex medical and psychosocial barriers
• Opportunity to participate in resident, fellow, and student education 
• Potential for faculty appointment with Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
• Full-time position, flexible schedule and shared call schedule
• Highly competitive compensation and robust benefits package

Qualifications:

• M.D./D.O. degree from a recognized Medical or Osteopathic School
• Have or have the ability to obtain a New Jersey Medical License 
• Hospice & Palliative Medicine (HPM) board-eligible/certified, with fellowship training OR 2 years’ experience in HPM field beyond board certification (Will consider 2025 palliative fellowship graduates for candidacy)
• Interest in education and building a palliative care fellowship program
• Strong clinical and collaborative skills 
• Ability to balance emotionally challenging situations in the context of serious medical illness and assess, evaluate, plan, and implement care in complex and life limiting situations
• Must be capable of offering specialized knowledge and skill to all members of the health care staff
• Team oriented with ability to provide personalized patient care as well as family support and demonstrate clinical outcomes

For immediate consideration, please contact:

Nancy Massa, Physician Recruiter at Nancy.Massa@hmhn.org or call/text 732-890-9339

Hackensack Meridian Health is the leading not-for-profit health care network in New Jersey offering a complete range of medical services, innovative research, and life-enhancing care aiming to serve as a national model for changing and simplifying health care delivery through partnerships with innovative companies and focusing on quality and safety.  

About Hackensack Meridian Health

Hackensack Meridian Health is the leading not-for-profit health care network in New Jersey, offering a complete range of medical services, innovative research and life-enhancing care. We aim to serve as a national model for changing and simplifying health care delivery through partnerships with innovative companies and focusing on quality and safety. Hackensack Meridian Health was created in 2016 as a merger of Hackensack University Medical Center and its affiliated hospitals, with Meridian Health System, and is now a large integrated not-for-profit health care organization spanning the eastern shore of New Jersey. HMH comprises 18 hospitals, including two academic medical centers, two children’s hospitals and ten community hospitals, physician practices, more than 120 ambulatory care centers, surgery centers, home health services, long-term care and assisted living communities, hospice services, ambulance services, lifesaving air medical transportation, fitness and wellness centers, rehabilitation centers, and urgent care and after-hours centers.