Description
Position Title: Physician, Palliative Care
Location: Onvida Health
Employment type: Hospital employed
Call Required: No
Visa Sponsorship Eligible: Yes
Position Summary
This position is an expansion to our existing outpatient clinic located within 1 mile from the hospital's main campus. This is an amazing opportunity to help establish and build an extremely successful practice in our growing community.
Minimum Requirement:
- MD or DO Degree
- Residency/fellowship trained from an accredited Palliative Care program Must have or be eligible for Arizona State medical licensure
- Ability to achieve full and unrestricted hospital privileges at Onvida Health
Benefits
- STRONG salary + bonus incentives
- Medical, dental, and vision
- Up to $5,000. in reimbursable CME expenses/year
- 401k employer match up to 5%
- Basic life insurance
- Short term & long term disability insurance
- 35 days/year paid time off and 6 holidays
- 457(b) retirement savings plan
- Lifestyle spending benefit and wellness program
- Sign on bonus
- Relocation stipend
General Hospital Information
Onvida Health Yuma Medical Center is an award winning 430-bed, Medicare-certified acute care hospital staffed by skilled healthcare professionals who are committed to providing the highest level of patient and family centered care. We provide best practice, integrated healthcare to Southwest Arizona and are the only full-service acute care hospital between San Diego and Phoenix serving 200,000 year-round residents and are joined by an additional 100,000 winter residents during our mild winter season.
Additional Community Information
If you love sunshine, Yuma, AZ is the place for you! The beautiful weather makes it the perfect location for outdoor activities, events, festivals, community block parties, and all kinds of recreational fun. Yuma boasts an average of 350 days of sunshine each year, making us the sunniest place on earth. Imagine enjoying average winter temperatures of 70 degrees. Yuma, Arizona receives sunshine 94% of daylight hours.
Yuma, Arizona sits on the edge of the Colorado River and the borders of California and Arizona. Our community is large enough to have everything you need, but small enough to feel like family. San Diego, CA and Phoenix, AZ are just over a 2.5 -hour drive away; Tucson is just over 3 with the drive to Las Vegas being a little over 4 hours. So, when you want a quick weekend get-a-way, the larger metropolitan areas are very close by.
Yuma is a place that makes you feel right at home - from the rental car agent at the airport to the gas station attendant to your server at a restaurant and everyone else you meet in between. Our community is an amazing place to work and call home.
** Yuma Regional Medical Center has changed our name to Onvida Health. This exciting brand refresh represents where we are today, as a health system. Learn more at https://www.onvidahealth.org/spark/
