We are seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible Medical Director for our Urgent Care clinics at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center — Shreveport.
Responsibilities include overseeing 3 urgent care clinics in Northern Louisiana, managing advanced practice providers (APPs), clinic operations, and providing 50% clinical practice time.
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 providing 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, and 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, and 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
Ochsner is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected class, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.