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DIVISION CHIEF, HEMATOLOGY ONCOLOGY

Employer
Baystate Health
Location
Springfield, Massachusetts
Posted Date
Nov 29, 2017

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Job Details

Baystate Health, a Truven® Award winning healthcare system and home of the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate, is searching for an experienced Hematology Oncology Specialist to join our regional cancer program as Division Chief, Hematology Oncology.

Highlights of this opportunity:

  • Lead an accomplished clinical team of 12 physicians and five APCs who provide interdisciplinary clinics across five locations, in a fully integrated program that includes radiation, gynecological, and surgical oncology, as well as a dedicated oncology inpatient unit in an accredited ASCO Quality Oncology Practice Initiative program.
  • Opportunity to work in a growing clinical practice with a robust fellowship program. Faculty appointment to UMass School of Medicine commensurate with experience and accomplishments.
  • Ability to promote scholarships, including investigator-initiated research, and cooperative and pharmaceutical group trials, with both clinical and QI research.
  • A key leadership role in the regional cancer program, collaborating with leaders in our system and other regional hospitals and providers. Opportunity for personal growth through succession planning for the program.

Ideal candidate is nationally or regionally recognized, and has the ability to lead a high-volume program that continues to grow. This candidate has outstanding clinical skills, clinical research, and teaching abilities, along with experience in an academic and/or large integrated cancer program. In addition to exceptional clinical practice, he or she needs to have a proven ability to develop faculty; align programs with system strategies; promote clinical, QI, and outcomes-based scholarship; manage mission-based finances within a division; and provide collaborative leadership and a forward-looking vision. 

Housed in the region’s only academic cancer program — and the only program doing clinical research — the Division of Hematology Oncology has treated more than 2,500 cases annually in our five locations throughout western Massachusetts. Baystate’s regional cancer program provides services to patients suffering from cancer, blood disorders, and other related diseases, throughout the regions that our health system serves. More than half of all cancer patients in western Massachusetts are cared for by our program, the only interdisciplinary cancer program in the area.

The D’Amour Center for Cancer Care, our flagship cancer center in Springfield, serves between 250 and 350 patients daily, with clinical visits, support services, infusion treatments, and radiation therapy. Having a longstanding presence in the northern and eastern regions, these integrated sites benefit patients by providing high-quality cancer care, close to home.

Cancer care requires a team approach, depth of expertise, and clinical experience in order to obtain the best outcomes. Our oncology model is for physicians (i.e., medical oncologists) to specialize in one or two cancers, to ensure that the most appropriate therapies are delivered. Our program also sponsors “tumor boards” that are disease-specialized. At nine such conferences, medical, radiation, surgical, gynecological, and urological oncologists, as well as pathologists and radiologists, gather to discuss complex patient management issues in a multidisciplinary, detailed, and thorough manner. Modern cancer care requires comprehensive services plus a highly effective delivery of the best-evidenced therapies. Expansion plans for pharmacy and infusion capability at the D’Amour Center, Baystate Mary Lane Hospital, and Baystate Noble Hospitals are moving forward, as is the planned replacement of radiation therapy equipment with the latest linear accelerators and brachytherapy approaches. These investments will allow us to provide the very best in cancer care for members of our community, for years to come.

Baystate Medical Center was recently recognized as the No. 5 overall “Major Teaching Hospital” by Thomson Reuters, and also achieved elite distinction as one of 34 “high-performing” hospitals in America from U.S. News & World Report in 2015. Baystate Health consistently ranks among the nation’s top hospitals and healthcare organizations. As a not-for-profit, mission-driven, integrated health system, we serve a population of more than 750,000 people in communities across western Massachusetts.  Patient-centered care is at the core of our culture. We are committed to hiring clinicians who value a culture of compassion and appreciate diversity — while delivering a higher state of caring. Join us in our mission.

Please visit our website at www.choosebaystatehealth.org/hoc/nejm.

 Or contact
Wilson Mertens, MD, VP and Medical Director, Cancer Services,
c/o Pam Snyder, Senior Director, Physician and APP Recruitment:
Telephone: 413-794-2623             Fax: 413-794-5059            Email:
Pamela.snyder@Baystatehealth.org

Company

Baystate Health, a leading not-for-profit integrated health system, is transforming the delivery of health care to the communities it serves. Baystate Health (BH) is one of New England’s leading and largest integrated healthcare systems, serving more than 800,000 people throughout Western Massachusetts. With about 12,000 employees, a 1,200-member medical staff, and net patient service revenue of more than $2.3 billion, this dynamic and growing system includes an academic medical center, a children’s hospital and three community hospitals. It also includes a large multispecialty group, (Baystate Medical Practices), Baystate Home Health, Baystate Reference Laboratories, and Health New England, a 205,000-member health insurance company.

The mission of Baystate Health is “to improve the health of the people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion.” For over 130 years, Baystate has been a keystone of Western Massachusetts as it has evolved, grown, and emerged as one of the highest quality and most effective health care providers in the nation. Baystate Health was named a top 15 Health System in the country by Thompson Reuters; and is a PRC National Excellence in Healthcare Award Winner. Most recently US News and World Report ranked Baystate Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital as the only two hospitals in Massachusetts to achieve top quality ranking for five common procedures and conditions such as total joint replacement and congestive heart failure.

Baystate Health believes that the advancement of knowledge, through education and research, is essential to its mission of improving the health of the communities it serves. Baystate Medical Center has major programs in postgraduate medical education with residencies in Medicine, Surgery, Anesthesiology, Radiology, Pathology, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Medicine-Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, and Psychiatry; along with 22 fellowship programs.

Baystate Health is a forward-thinking organization. With impressive size, scope, and expertise, Baystate Health is the longtime market leader for health care services in western Massachusetts and is financially solid. However, as in most regions of the country, the healthcare landscape in western Massachusetts has shifted as a result of ever-increasing economic pressures and corresponding provider consolidation. Baystate Health is committed to its position as the key provider of tertiary level medical services to the people of Western Massachusetts. At the same time, Baystate Health has embraced a broader mission of promoting better health for the communities it serves and reducing health disparities. Baystate Health is committed to the provision of high value health care and is transforming how it delivers care and educates the next generation of physicians. One example of this is TechSpring, Baystate Health’s digital health care laboratory in downtown Springfield. Founded in June 2014, TechSpring works with entrepreneurs on ways that health care technology can fade into the background and take up less time.

In June 2015, Baystate Health established a new partnership with the UMass Medical School to develop a new regional clinical campus in Springfield, known as the University of Massachusetts Medical School – Baystate (UMMS-Baystate). UMMS-Baystate is now home to UMMS’ four-year Population-based Urban and Rural Community Health (PURCH) track, which welcomed its inaugural class of 22 medical students in Autumn 2017. Through this innovative program, the three institutions are partnering to strengthen the pipeline of new primary care physicians for the future in Western Massachusetts. These three institutions have also collaborated to create the Institute for Healthcare Delivery & Population Science, to generate and apply new knowledge to transform health care delivery and population health in support of Baystate Health’s strategic goals. The Institute conducts health services research projects in partnership with local, regional, and national stakeholders.

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