Palliative Medicine

Bon Secours Medical Group

Richmond and Hampton Roads, Virginia

Palliative Medicine

Bon Secours Palliative Medicine has openings for talented physicians to join our busy, well-established practice to provide services to patients with complex and serious medical illnesses.  Bon Secours was the first program in the country to have three inpatient programs certified by the Joint Commission at once and is currently pursuing certification at a fourth hospital.  Bon Secours serves as a model for future certification of outpatient programs.  Our Palliative Medicine program is one of three in the United States to be honored with the Circle of Life Award and is part of the Spiritual Care Coalition.  

We are currently seeking full time Palliative Medicine physicians for both our Richmond and Hampton Roads locations as well as a Medical Director in Hampton Roads.  

Duties Include:

• Inpatient consults
• Opportunity to provide some outpatient care
• Expect to see about 350 new inpatient consults per year
• Manage care decisions including advanced care planning, overwhelming symptoms including pain management, psychosocial distress and end stage disease including prognostication and therapy options
• Support Palliative Care integration into the Health System and the community
• Knowledge of medical and pharmacological management of pain and other symptoms
• Care for the dying and their families
• Participate in rotating call schedule 

Medical Director:

• Duties as Medical Director (30%):

• 70% Clinical
• Provides clinical leadership and expertise to the palliative medicine team

• Serves as collaborating physician for advance practice clinicians/nurse practitioners on the palliative medicine team

• Oversight of the work of the palliative medicine clinical team members

• Regular team meetings to discuss programmatic/operational and staff issues

• Collaboration with administrative leadership related to strategic planning, budget development and quality metric development and monitoring to evaluate program effectiveness

On September 1, 2018, Bon Secours Health System and Mercy Health combined to become the United States’ fifth largest Catholic health care ministry and one of the nation’s 20 largest health care systems.  Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of our communities and brings good help to those in need, especially people who are poor and dying.