Physician - Medical Director - Urgent Care

Ochsner Health is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible for our Medical Director role in Urgent Care. This physician would be over 3 clinics in Northern Louisiana.  Ochsner Health is an integrated healthcare system with more than 36,000 employees and over 4,600 employed and affiliated physicians in over 90 medical specialties and subspecialties. It operates 47 hospitals and more than 370 health and urgent care centers across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Gulf South.

Position Highlights:

• Embracing a leadership identity: Clear understanding and commitment to success as defined by collective performance; acceptance of responsibility for the performance of others.
• Professionalism: Understanding of and commitment to the highest standards of professionalism; willingness to hold others to
• those standards.
• Recruitment, Performance assessment, compensation, and feedback: Basic capacities in interviewing and proving feedback.
• Teamwork: Commitment to collaboration; understanding how to assign roles and run effective meetings.
• Negotiation, conflict resolution; interdepartmental collaboration: Able to frame issues from multiple perspectives, establish and nurture communication and problem-solving linkages with other sites/sections.
• A stepwise approach to dealing with problematic physicians: Basic understanding of how to set expectations, document behavior, provide feedback; must be comfortable doing so.
• Communication, having the difficult conversation: Can communicate clearly verbally and in writing; able to graciously confront difficult situations.
• Healthcare finance and reimbursement: Basic understanding of what is and is not profitable, of coding, of the billing cycle.
• Project Planning and execution: Able to lay out a straightforward project plan and timeline.
• Strategy Development in the context of Ochsner’s system strategy and operating system: Able to set, track, and achieve local goals; fundamental understanding of the operating calendar and related activities.
• System Leadership: Basic knowledge of potential synergies across the System.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Salary is commensurate with experience and training
• Paid vacation, holidays and CME
• Full benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance
• Additional benefit options focused on physical, financial, social and mental health
• Retirement options (401k, 403b, and 457b)
• Relocation assistance
• Malpractice and tail insurance

Why Choose Ochsner Health:

• Flexible schedules to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
• Integrated health care delivery model with multi-specialty collaboration, large internal referral network and innovative resources dedicated to improving patient care and your ease of practice.
• Physician-led organization that ensures our providers are given the tools and support needed to care for patients. 
• Professional development opportunities in teaching, research, physician leadership and community service.
• EPIC medical record platform utilized throughout the health system to enhance flexibility in patient management.

Are you ready to make a difference? Apply Today! https://careers.ochsner.org/job/shreveport/physician-medical-director-urgent-care/47519/81001213616

Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate. Ochsner Health is a not-for-profit committed to giving back to the communities it serves through preventative screenings, health and wellness resources and partnerships with innovative organizations that share our vision. Ochsner Health healed more than 876,000 people from across the globe in 2019, providing the latest medical breakthroughs and therapies, including digital medicine for chronic conditions and telehealth specialty services. Ochsner Health is a national leader, named the top hospital in Louisiana and a top children’s hospital by U.S. News & World Report. As Louisiana’s leading healthcare educator, Ochsner Health and its partners educate thousands of healthcare professionals annually. Ochsner Health is innovating healthcare by investing in new technologies and research to make world-class care more accessible, affordable, convenient and effective. Ochsner's team of more than 26,000 employees and 4,500 providers are working to reinvent the future of health and wellness in the region. To learn more about Ochsner Health, please visit www.ochsner.org. To transform your health, please visit www.ochsner.org/healthyyou.