Palliative Medicine Physician | Established Program + Teaching Opportunities | St. Louis

Mercy Health; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

CME (Continuing Medical Education)

Professional liability coverage

Job summary

Mercy Health in St. Louis seeks a Palliative Medicine Physician to join an established Joint Commission Certified program at Mercy Hospital St. Louis.

The role focuses on comprehensive symptom management, care coordination, and support for patients and families facing serious illness. The team operates in a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary model, offering inpatient and outpatient consultations, teaching opportunities with fellows and residents, and flexible scheduling to support work-life

Qualifications

• Board-certified in palliative medicine or eligible.
• Experience delivering inpatient and outpatient pallaitive care.

Responsibilities

• Provide inpatient and outpatient palliative medicine consultations.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to coordinate care and goals.
• Engage in teaching opportunities with fellows and residents.

Skills

Palliative Medicine

Inpatient and outpatient care

Education

MD/DO

Job description

Find your calling at Mercy!

Mercy Clinic is seeking a Palliative Medicine Physician to join our well-established, Joint Commission Certified program at Mercy Hospital St. Louis.

Our robust, interdisciplinary palliative care program has been serving patients in St. Louis for more than 15 years and provides comprehensive support for patients and families navigating serious illness. The team focuses not only on symptom and pain management, but also on care coordination, goals of care, emotional support, and patients' social and spiritual needs.

Why Join Mercy?

• Join an established, collaborative team of three physicians, five advanced practice providers and a dedicated social worker
• Provide inpatient and outpatient palliative medicine consultation and care
• Strong integration with Mercy specialists and a well-established referral base
• Work within a highly collaborative, interdisciplinary care model supporting patients with complex and serious illness
• Flexible scheduling and excellent work-life balance
• Teaching opportunities with Mercy's Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellows, as well as Internal Medicine and Family Medicine residents
• Opportunities to engage with learners across multiple disciplines, including fellows, residents, nursing students and nurse practitioner students
• System-wide Epic EMR
• Integrated health system employment with a competitive income guarantee
• Comprehensive benefits and CME
• Relocation assistance and professional liability coverage

The Mercy Hospital St. Louis palliative care program is well integrated across the health system and supported by an experienced interdisciplinary team. The program has been Joint Commission Certified since 2013 and serves as the backbone of Mercy's Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship.

Physicians have the opportunity to care for a diverse patient population while collaborating closely with advanced practice providers, social workers, chaplains, specialists, residents and fellows.

The practice's approach emphasizes symptom management, communication, care coordination, advance care planning and helping patients and families maintain the best possible quality of life throughout serious illness.

Your life is our life's work

At Mercy, you can lead the way.

Join a team where your passion for patient care meets cutting-edge innovation. As part of an organization rooted in nearly 200 years of compassionate service, you'll help deliver transformative health care experiences while exploring new technologies and shaping the future of medicine. What sets us apart is our unwavering commitment to physician leadership-from the highest levels of our organization to the front lines of care-where physicians and caregivers collaborate, embrace fresh thinking, and drive clinical and operational excellence. If making a difference in your community is why you chose health care, Mercy is where your purpose meets possibility.

For more information, please contact Megan Zielinski, MHA, CPRP-DEI.Telephone: [phone] | Email: [e-mail] more information, please contact Megan Zielinski, MHA, CPRP-DEI.Telephone: [phone] | Email: [e-mail]