Physician - Medical Director - Urgent Care

Ochsner Health • Shreveport, LA

87d

About The Position

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 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.

Requirements

• Board Certified/Board Eligible in a relevant medical field.
• Experience in leadership roles within a healthcare setting.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Basic understanding of healthcare finance and reimbursement.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in urgent care settings.
• Familiarity with project planning and execution in healthcare.
• Previous experience in performance assessment and feedback.

Responsibilities

• Embracing a leadership identity with a clear understanding and commitment to success as defined by collective performance.
• Understanding of and commitment to the highest standards of professionalism; willingness to hold others to those standards.
• Basic capacities in interviewing and providing feedback for recruitment and performance assessment.
• Commitment to collaboration and understanding how to assign roles and run effective meetings.
• Able to frame issues from multiple perspectives and establish communication and problem-solving linkages with other sites/sections.
• Basic understanding of how to set expectations, document behavior, and provide feedback to deal with problematic physicians.
• Can communicate clearly verbally and in writing; able to graciously confront difficult situations.
• Basic understanding of healthcare finance and reimbursement, including coding and the billing cycle.
• Able to lay out a straightforward project plan and timeline for project planning and execution.
• Able to set, track, and achieve local goals in the context of Ochsner’s system strategy and operating system.
• Basic knowledge of potential synergies across the System.

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed