Physician Home Care

What You’ll Do

As a home care hospice physician, you will:

• Use your compassion, communication skills, and deep expertise to build meaningful relationships with patients and families.
• Provide the highest-quality care at the most challenging point in life, seeing the person behind each prognosis and creating care plans centered around the patient’s wishes, needs, and beliefs.
• Manage approximately 45-60 patients in their home settings via an interdisciplinary team approach.
• Make visits in-person and via telehealth.
• Participate in Weekly team IDG meetings.
• Advocate for your patients, discussing goals for their care while addressing their hopes and fears.
• Live the hospice mission, seeking teachable moments everywhere, and educate patients, caregivers, and the communities you serve on the benefits of compassionate, dignified end-of-life care.

WHERE YOU’LL WORK

You will spend most of your time caring for hospice patients and families wherever they call home, whether that means a private residence or an assisted living/skilled nursing facility. Once a week, you’ll visit your local program office to discuss cases with members of your interdisciplinary team, including social workers, chaplains, and nurses.

What’s Expected From You

• Be licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the state in which your program operates.
• Be board-certified or board-eligible in hospice and palliative medicine, internal medicine, family practice, or a related specialty.
• Be familiar with the principles of hospice and registered with the DEA.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATE

VITAS physicians must have the traits that make the VITAS Difference: Commitment, Compassion, and a Can-do Attitude. Keep patient welfare at the center of everything you do, giving your best each day in service of our core commitment: Extending comfort and dignity to all people at the end of their life’s journey.