Palliative Care physician opportunity at Parkview Cancer Center in Fort Wayne, IN - Parkview Regional Medical Center

The Parkview Packnett Family Cancer Institute is looking to recruit an additional Palliative Care doctor to join our Palliative, Integrative and Survivorship Oncology team. 

The ideal candidate is a motivated and innovative physician with a passion for multidisciplinary approach to palliative care in the cancer population.  New fellowship grads and established physicians are welcomed.  Palliative care fellowship trained favored, but internal medicine trained, or dual trained palliative oncology and medical oncology would be considered.

They would join a fully integrated palliative care team that sees patients in all stages in order to ensure the best outcomes and mitigate the burden if cancer care on the patients.  We recognize that the integration of palliative care is not just for patients with poor prognosis, but for all patients to ensure best outcomes and optimal patient experience. Our palliative oncologists also maintain long term relationships with the patients through the Cancer Survivorship Program.  

There is a rewarding opportunity to join the Parkview Health team and play an essential role in our vision to be the best regional cancer program in the country.  Our recruited physicians will have the opportunity to work in a 200,000 square foot state of the art cancer institute located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Attached to a tertiary regional medical center, our state-of-the-art facility opened its doors in June 2018. Parkview Packnett Family Cancer Institute serves the oncology needs for the Parkview Health system - a 2 billion dollar+ not-for-profit, multi-hospital entity with oncology cases coming to the institute for specialty cancer care.

Our institute enhances clinical care by incorporating a multidisciplinary approach to care involving medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgical subspecialties and other specialties. We have a novel clinical model which allows for disease site-based management.  We combined our specialists into clinics based on diseases and wrapped the treatments in concierge level care with world class supportive services. The cancer institute serves as a tertiary care referral center. PFCI has a robust research infrastructure and is involved in the GME program for resident education if candidates have interest.

Our physician-led institute, serving northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio population, will empower our patients and their families to get the multi-disciplinary treatment they desire in one single location.  The clinical model involves working in multi-specialty tumor site teams, and predominantly outpatient practice with limited call at a single tertiary hospital.

The Parkview Packnett Family Cancer Institute is a COC accredited comprehensive community cancer center with multiple subspecialty accreditations.

As an employed physician of Parkview Health, you may receive an excellent salary package beyond other tertiary centers.  The benefit program provides a comprehensive array of benefits and services to employed physicians, including, but not limited to, highly competitive salaries plus annual incentive compensation opportunity, commencement bonus, student loan assistance up to $150k, paid relocation, paid malpractice insurance, match retirement contribution plan, flexible spending accounts, health insurance, life insurance, long and short term disability, dues, licensure and memberships, annual physician allowance (for CMEs and other qualified expenses) as well as many other non-traditional benefits.

For additional information and to submit CVs, please contact providercareers@parkview.com