Part Time Hospice Medical Director Start-Up 1099 Independent Contractor

Join Us at the Ground Level: Hospice Medical Director (1099 Part Time) for Innovative Startup Serving Chatam, Bulloch, Effingham, Candler, and Screven Counties We’re not just launching a hospice—we’re redefining what compassionate end-of-life care can look like. Our startup is built on the belief that dignity, comfort, and human connection should be at the center of every patient’s final chapter. Building a deeply empathetic team, we’re creating a hospice model that’s personal, scalable, and community-rooted. As our Hospice Medical Director, you will lead the medical component of our hospice program, ensuring the highest standards of care, regulatory compliance, and clinical excellence. You’ll collaborate with a dedicated team of nurses, social workers, chaplains, and caregivers to guide patients and families through their journey with empathy and expertise. As a Medical Director, here’s a big-picture view of what you’ll do:

• Certifies in writing that each individual considered for admission to hospice or each patient considered for continuing hospice care is terminally ill in accordance with applicable law, regulation, hospice policies and procedures, contract provisions or the patient’s benefit requirements.
• Provides oversight of physician services to hospice patients by complementing attending physician care and ensuring continuity of hospice medical services including appropriate management of patient pain and symptoms related to the terminal condition.
• Documents an individual patient’s progression in end-stage disease in the patient/family record as appropriate.
• Maintains medical staff privileges in good standing at the facility(ies) providing short term inpatient care to hospice patients.
• Supervises all physician employees and any physicians under contract.
• Ensures qualified physician participation in the initial development and ongoing review of the IDG plan of care, and that the plan of care is developed prior to the delivery of hospice services.
• Actively participates in IDG meetings, including the update of each patient’s comprehensive assessment and plan of care as often as a patient’s condition requires and in accordance with applicable law and regulation.

* Participates in:

• The development, implementation and review of clinical protocols;
• Patient continuing care decisions;
• The development of procedures and the related oversight of the provision, adequacy, appropriateness and coordination of short term inpatient care, emergency services and respite care;
• The quality assessment and performance improvement program (QAPI);
• The resolution of patient/family or hospice program clinical and ethical disputes or concerns; and
• The continuing education of the IDG, volunteers, and affiliated physicians and employees of associated inpatient facilities.
• Acts as a patient’s physician to meet general medical needs, including pain and/or symptom management or other medical intervention should a patient’s attending physician not be available or chooses to relinquish responsibility for a patient’s care.
• Acts as the liaison to community physicians.
• Completes other assignments as requested and assigned.

A few must-haves for our Hospice Medical Director:

• A doctor of medicine or osteopathy.
• DEA License
• Current license in good standing in the state(s) in which the hospice provides care.
• Board certified in a related specialty, preferred.
• Hospice/palliative experience, preferred.
• Knows the applicable law, regulation and contract provisions associated with terminal illness certification for hospice admission or for continuing hospice care.
• Ability to work as a member of the Interdisciplinary Group.
• Knowledge of and commitment to hospice philosophy of care and palliative intervention.
• Ability to effectively communicate with clinical and non-clinical staff, patients and family/caregivers as well as the medical community.
• Meets applicable health requirements to provide patient care.
• Able to work on-call hours as needed.

Our Hospice Medical Director enjoys some excellent benefits:

• Competitive Pay $3,000.00 to $4,000.00 monthly
• Flexible Scheduling

Why Work for Interim HealthCare? Founded in 1966, Interim HealthCare is the nation’s first home care company and a leading employer of medical professionals. Operating through 300+ offices, our commitment to you is expressed through a family-oriented culture that values and appreciates medical professionals, and a passion to put patients first. Join a nationwide network of medical professionals who are making a significant difference in the lives of others through the personalized, home-based care they provide. Interim HealthCare is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.