Physician - Medical Director - Urgent Care

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At Ochsner, whether you work with patients every day or support those who do, you are making a difference and that matters.  Come make a difference at Ochsner Health and discover your future today! 

Physician – Medical Director – Urgent Care

Ochsner Health is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible for our Medical Director role in Urgent Care in Shreveport, La. This physician would be over 3 clinics in Northern Louisiana.  Your main focus for this position is Urgent Care oversight of the APPs, the clinics, and some clinical.

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.

*We are open to someone that wants full-time or part-time employment*

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.
• Our dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion is demonstrated by hiring a workforce that celebrates individual uniqueness among people and cultures. We focus our efforts in key areas that correlate back to our core values of Patient First, Compassion, Integrity, Inclusivity, Excellence and Teamwork.

Are you ready to make a difference? Apply Today!

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