Guaranteed is a care company that makes tough moments easier. By blending at-home treatment with cutting-edge technology, we’re here to deliver care how you want it. Guaranteed is backed by some of the best investors in the game (including: BrandProject, Precursor, Springbank Collective, Lakehouse and Cake Ventures) and have raised $6.5 million in seed funding - one of the largest seed rounds for a Black female solo founder.

Our goal is to provide tech-enabled hospice services in a hybrid setting: best in class in-person and telemedicine care. Our care providers are highly-trained healthcare professionals focused on support, comfort, and dignity. We are obsessed with providing for patients and families and want to change the cultural conversation around death.

Who You Are

• You are obsessed with patient-experience and delivering excellence in care, support, and comfort through technology.

• You are driven, in work and in life, by your compassion for people.

• You believe the US Healthcare system is deeply problematic and inequitable, and you want to help architect a solution.

• You are always learning new things from your friends, you colleagues, your communities, and the world.

• You thrive when building alongside diverse teams, opinions, and cross-discipline roles.

• You are more than comfortable in a 0 to 1 startup. You manage yourself as well as anyone else and you love iterating quickly.

Who We Are

• We are equally obsessed with patient-experience, and also caregiver-experience, family-experience, and care provider-experience. We strive to support everyone affected by death.

• We are compassionate by nature.

• We dream of healthcare systems that are more equitable and more human - and we work everyday to make them that way.

• Medicine often ignores end of life care - we don’t. We talk about death. We talk about dying, about grief, about losing our patients and losing our loved ones.

• We love teaching what we know and bringing humility to what don’t.

Alternate Medical Director

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Job Type: Per Diem (Contract)

Compensation: At Guaranteed, we aim to offer equitable and competitive compensation that demonstrates the value we place in our workers and our appreciation for the work they preform; This role is compensated by the hour and will likely fall between $110-150 per hour.

Summary

Guaranteed Hospice is seeking a experience and flexible Hospice Alternate Medical Director. As Alternative Medical Director, you will have overall responsibility for the medical component of the hospice program in the absence of the Medical Director. When engaged, you will serve as a medical resource to the interdisciplinary group, complement attending physician care, and will assure continuity of hospice medical services and appropriate measures to control patient symptoms.

Job Responsibilities

• Providing oversight of the plan of care, medications and treatments

• Serving as a medical resource to hospice staff, patients, families, and attending physicians regarding pain and symptom control management

• Collaborating with the IDG to ensure that the medical needs of the patient are met

• Ensuring the provision of direct medical services to patients either directly or through arrangements, as appropriate, in the absence of the patient’s attending physician

• Provide oversight of physician services including, but not limited to:

  • Complementing attending physician care;

  • Supervising all hospice physician employees and contract hospice physicians;

  • Acting as a medical resource person to the IDG;

  • Assuring overall continuity of the hospice medical services; and

  • Assuring that the patient receives appropriate measures to control uncomfortable symptoms

• Certifying that the patient meets the medical criteria for hospice admission based upon available diagnostic and prognostic indicators, related diagnosis(es) if any, current subjective and objective medical findings, current medication and treatment orders, information about the medical management of any of the patient’s conditions unrelated to the terminal illness

• Documenting in detail care provided in the patient’s clinical record providing evidence of progression of the end-stage-disease process

• Maintaining current knowledge of the latest research and trends in hospice care and pain/symptom management

• Serving as a hospice champion in the community

• Acting as a liaison to physicians in the community

Skills and Toolset You’ll Need to Bring

• History and knowledge of adhering to regulations, standards, and conditions of participation required by Medicare, accrediting body, and federal and state statutes governing the provision of services

• Excellence in communications and counseling patient/family in dealing with end-of-life issues

• Meticulously organized with a keen eye for timelines and deadlines

• Empathic and personable in interacting with patients via virtual and face-to-face visits

• Ability to travel with a working personal vehicle and an unrestricted license

• Hearing, eyesight and physical dexterity must be sufficient to perform a physical assessment of the patient's condition and to perform and demonstrate patient care

• Comfortability in utilizing computers, multi-line telephones, copy machines, and other office and basic medical equipment

• Discretion and confidentiality

Relevant Experience

• Must be a physician (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO), licensed to practice medicine in the State of CA

• Certified in Hospice or a related specialty

• Has experience with end-of-life care

• Approval to maintain controlled substances registration with state and federal authorities

• Must have the ability to demonstrate self-confidence and positive attitude toward self and others and maintain commitment and enthusiasm to goal achievement

• Not excluded from the Medicare program

• The ability to communicate well, both verbally and in writing

Guaranteed is a black-, queer-, women-led organization and we are an equal opportunity employer. You will find psychological safety here with any intersection of any identity and we welcome the chance to meet and support you.

About Guaranteed Hospice

Guaranteed is a care company that makes tough moments easier. By blending at-home treatment with cutting-edge technology, we’re here to deliver care how you want it. Guaranteed is backed by some of the best investors in the game (including: BrandProject, Precursor, Springbank Collective, Lakehouse and Cake Ventures) and have raised $6.5 million in seed funding - one of the largest seed rounds for a Black female solo founder. Our goal is to provide tech-enabled hospice services in a hybrid setting: best in class in-person and telemedicine care. Our care providers are highly-trained healthcare professionals focused on support, comfort, and dignity. We are obsessed with providing for patients and families and want to change the cultural conversation around death.

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