We've made a lot of progress since opening the doors in 1942, but one thing has never changed - our commitment to serve, heal, lead, educate, and innovate.  We believe that every award earned, every record broken and every patient helped is because of the dedicated employees who fill our hallways. 

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! 

Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport & Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Shreveport is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible for our Medical Director role in Urgent Care. This physician would be over 3 growing Urgent Care clinics in Northern Louisiana.  Your main focus for this position is Urgent Care oversight of the APPs, the clinics, and 50% clinical practice.

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 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 & Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience and training
• Malpractice coverage provided
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Life, disability, and AD&D insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Optional retirement plans with institutional contributions
• Commencement Incentive
• Generous Relocation

Are you ready to make a difference? Apply Today!

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