Palliative Care Physician- OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital- Columbus, Ohio

Join an award winning, physician-led health system that prides itself on an inclusive, collegial and innovative culture. As a Palliative Care Physician at OhioHealth, you will receive the support needed to balance your personal and professional goals and impact our mission of improving the health of those we serve.

Description:

• Long standing Palliative Care presence at Riverside and strong desire from referring teams for Palliative Care services.
• Opportunity to work with a robust interdisciplinary palliative care team. 
• OhioHealth has an ACGME certified Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship.  3-4 fellows per year rotate through Riverside.
• All physicians spend time teaching not only fellows from our fellowship program, but residents and medical students as part of their daily expected clinical role.
• Competitive compensation package including starting bonus, student loan repayment or retention bonus, and relocation bonus for those who qualify.
• Generous Benefits package inclusive of time away pay, CME, and wellness offerings to support work life balance.
• Epic EMR System
• OhioHealth Physician Leadership Institute and Development Curriculum
• Physician leadership approach that offers system support for all our providers

Requirements:

• Board Eligible/Board Certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Contact information:

For questions or to schedule an exploratory call, please contact our Physician Recruiter, Jennifer Turson at Jennifer.Turson@ohiohealth.com. 

OhioHealth:

OhioHealth is a nationally recognized, not-for-profit, charitable regional hospital system located in Central OH and the surrounding areas.

Serving our communities since 1891, we are a family of 35,000 associates, providers and volunteers across a system of 15 hospitals, 300+ ambulatory sites, hospice, home-health, medical equipment and other health services spanning a 50-county area.

We are an inclusive organization that prides ourselves on having a world class culture. As a world class organization, we have been recognized as a:

• 2023 DiversityInc Top Health System
• Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work For 15 times
• Top 10% of Press Ganey’s Hospital Experience Survey

Complete list of Awards and Recognition: https://www.ohiohealth.com/about-us/awards

About Columbus:

Experience the vibrant and flourishing city of Columbus, Ohio, the 14^th largest city in the United States. This culturally diverse and welcoming city offers unique neighborhoods and lifestyles for all. Columbus has received numerous national accolades such as being ranked No. 8 on the “Best Places to Live” in the U.S. by Money magazine and No. 14 nationally on Forbes “America’s Cities of the Future.” Medscape sums it up well: Columbus is No. 5 of America’s “Best Cities for Physicians.” The region’s prestigious educational institutions, high physician compensation, low tax rates, low malpractice payouts, low density of physicians, beautiful landscape, and robust economy convinced Medscape to name Columbus is a top tier city and community for physicians. 

Consistently ranked one of the nation’s best, OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, is a 1,059-bed, teaching hospital and OhioHealth’s largest hospital. Riverside Methodist shares the OhioHealth mission “to improve the health of those we serve.” It is recognized locally, regionally and nationally for quality healthcare.

Riverside Methodist is the first hospital in Ohio and one of the first in the country to earn first class designation as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by The Joint Commission in collaboration with the American Heart/American Stroke Association. Last year alone, we delivered more than 6,000 babies, admitted more than 46,000 patients and saw 84,313 patients in our emergency department. We also performed nearly 23,300 surgeries.

In addition, Riverside Methodist is known for its innovation, cutting-edge technologies and procedures. We are always working to identify the latest, most effective treatments for our patients. These are a few examples of our recent advancements:

• Riverside Methodist was the site for OhioHealth’s first Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) therapy, a delicate procedure which allows us to give a renewed opportunity at life for patients with advanced heart failure.
• OhioHealth Neuroscience recently announced its first thermal laser ablation case to eradicate seizures in patients with epilepsy — an alternative to a full craniotomy and respective brain surgery using a device called Visualase®.
• OhioHealth Neuroscience recently celebrated the 5^th anniversary of its mobile stroke treatment unit, which delivers cutting-edge, time-sensitive stroke care to the community, regardless of zip code.