Advanced Care at Home Physician - Nemours Children's Health - Home Office

Nemours Virtual Care

Nemours is searching for an Advanced Care at Home physician to deliver acute, hospital-level medical care directly to a patient's residence using a blend of virtual technology, remote monitoring, and in-person visits.

Nemours Virtual Care is a centralized, enterprise-wide model that delivers technology-enabled clinical services to support patient safety, care coordination, access, capacity optimization and acute care delivery across the health system.

Core Responsibilities

• Patient Acquisition: Review and accept new hospital admissions or patient transfers into the home care program.
• Daily Rounding: Conduct virtual or in-person rounds to monitor recovery, update treatment plans, and evaluate vital signs.
• Care Coordination: Collaborate with nurses, pharmacists, case managers, and medical specialists to ensure seamless treatment.
• Diagnostics and Treatment: Order and interpret lab tests, imaging, and medications tailored to a home setting.
• Discharge Planning: Manage safe transitions out of the acute home program back to primary care.

Key Qualifications

• Clinical Experience: Inpatient, hospitalist, or acute care experience.
• Licensure: Active medical license (MD/DO)
• Tech Skills: High comfort level using Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) and remote patient monitoring tools.
• Autonomy: Ability to make independent clinical decisions in a non-traditional environment.

Qualifications

• Clinical Qualifications: Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO).
• Clinical experience in managing children with medical complexity.
• Must be eligible for licensing in PA, NL, DE, MD and FL.
• Direct clinical experience managing acutely ill patients with experience in providing comprehensive hospital-based care, home and community care, and familiarity with Mobile Integrated Health (MIH)/Community Paramedicine.

Skills

• Strong clinical judgment with a systems-thinking mindset.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment with ambiguity.
• Commitment to patient-centered, high-quality, and technology-enabled care.
• Proficiency with Epic EMR, telehealth platforms, and virtual care technologies.

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.

Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.

Learn more at Nemours.org.