Company Overview
Part of the Desert Care Network, Desert Regional Medical Center is a 385-bed tertiary acute care hospital located in Palm Springs. It is the Coachella Valley’s only designated trauma center and houses the region’s only neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Desert Regional Medical Center offers a wide range of services, including Emergency/Trauma Care, a Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Institute of Clinical Orthopedics and Neurosciences, the Center for Weight Management, El Mirador Imaging Center, and both inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services. The hospital also provides expanded outpatient services at the La Quinta Medical Center at 47647 Caleo Bay, featuring satellite offices for the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Advanced Wound Healing Center, and La Quinta Imaging.
Desert Regional Medical Center has earned advanced certifications as a Comprehensive Stroke Center through DNV-GL, and for Hip and Knee Replacement and Spine Surgery through The Joint Commission.
Operated by Tenet Healthcare Corp under a lease from the Desert Healthcare District, the Desert Care Network includes three acute care hospitals: Desert Regional Medical Center, JFK Memorial Hospital in Indio, CA, and Hi-Desert Medical Center in Joshua Tree, CA.
About the Job
Up to a $20,000 Sign-On Bonus based on experience
Desert Regional Medical Center is a 385-bed acute-care hospital recognized as a stroke receiving center and a Level 2 trauma facility. Our Rehabilitation Services Department offers an innovative, patient-centered, and evidence-based approach to care. Our compassionate team provides a broad range of inpatient and outpatient services, including acute care rehabilitation, joint replacement and spinal surgery, neurosurgery, ICU, telemetry, step-down care, skilled nursing, as well as outpatient therapy, hand, and lymphedema clinics.
Position Summary:
As an Occupational Therapist, you will evaluate, plan, and implement specific treatment programs for individual patients based on the principles and practices of occupational therapy. You will work as part of an interdisciplinary team, providing patient assessment and reassessment, direct patient care, and individualized care planning and implementation.
Shift: Days
Hours: 7:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Schedule: 5 days per week, with some weekends required.
Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.
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