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Full Time Community Palliative Care and Hospice

Employer
Baystate Health
Location
Western Massachusetts
Posted Date
Aug 14, 2019

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Specialty
Palliative Care
Position Type
Permanent

Job Details

Baystate Home Health and Hospice (BHH) is a comprehensive home health care agency providing high quality care to patients and families throughout western Massachusetts. As an affiliate of Baystate Health, a nationally recognized health care system, you’ll enjoy unique resources which set BHH apart from other home care agencies in the region. We offer a diverse culture that provides outstanding opportunities for physicians and advanced practice providers to start and advance their career.

Baystate Health is searching for a Nurse Practitioner to join Baystate Home Health in western Massachusetts.

Position Highlights

Join a new and developing community palliative care program providing patient-centered care in a supportive environment to patients and families facing advanced illness and/or end-of-life challenges.

Collaborate closely with a vibrant interdisciplinary team consisting of colleagues from Social Work, Nursing, Spiritual Care Services, Nurse Practitioners and Physicians.

Complete hospice recertification visits and participate in an after hour / weekend on-call rotation along with other on-call providers.

Knowledge and ability to provide assessment and manage symptoms of patients with advanced illness and recommend treatment as appropriate in a consultative model and in coordination with the primary care provider and other disciplines involved in the patient’s care.

Comfortable with holding family meetings, discussing goals of care with patient and families, and developing plan of care.

Work closely and collegially with the hospice and Homecare teams.

Professional development valued and potential for leadership.

Schedule offers flexibility providing great work/life balance. Mileage reimbursement, phone and laptop provided. Competitive salary and benefits that comprise high quality, low cost medical/dental, paid time off, CME, and an impressive retirement plan.

Baystate Health is western Massachusetts’ premier healthcare provider and is home to the prestigious University of Massachusetts Medical School - Baystate. Baystate Health was named one of America’s Best employers by State in 2019 by Forbes. Ranked #14 out of 74 top employers in Massachusetts, Baystate Health is one of New England’s leading healthcare systems and the largest employer in the region.

The Pioneer Valley is a thriving area located in western Massachusetts and provides extensive access to urban, suburban and rural amenities. Anchored by the city of Springfield, our region boasts a myriad of opportunities for recreation, music, education and art enthusiasts. When you live and work in the Pioneer Valley, you will enjoy picturesque four-season living, excellent schools and year-round social and cultural events. In fact, Massachusetts was once again ranked #1 in Education nationally by U.S. News and World Report.

Qualifications:

Qualifications: The ideal candidate will be Board Certified/Board Eligible Nurse Practitioner. Candidates must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong computer skills, and have a commitment to patient-centered care. New graduates considered, minimum of 1 year of nursing experience in a palliative careand hospice care required.

Responsibilities:

For more information please visit us online at: ChooseBaystateHealth.org or interact with us socially at facebook.com/BaystateCareers or on Twitter @BaystateCareers. All correspondence can be directed to: Ariana Caradiaz, MBA, DASPR Physician and APP Recruiter Phone: 413-794-8701 Fax: 413-794-5059 Email: Ariana.Caradiaz@baystatehealth.org Reinventing healthcare takes courage. It takes collaboration. It takes you. Are you ready to advance your career with us?

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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