Physician - Medical Director - Urgent Care

Ochsner Health System; Shreveport (LA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Part time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Physician for the Medical Director role in Urgent Care. This pivotal position involves overseeing multiple clinics, ensuring high standards of care, and fostering collaboration among healthcare teams. With a commitment to innovation and community service, this organization offers a supportive environment that values professional growth and work-life balance. If you are passionate about making a difference in patient care and leading a dynamic team, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Paid vacation

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement options (401k, 403b, 457b)

Relocation assistance

Malpractice and tail insurance

Flexible schedules

CME opportunities

Qualifications

• Board Certified/Board Eligible Physician for Medical Director role.
• Strong leadership and communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee 3 clinics in Northern Louisiana.
• Ensure high standards of professionalism and performance.

Skills

Leadership

Professionalism

Communication

Negotiation

Healthcare finance

Project Planning

Teamwork

Conflict Resolution

Education

Board Certified/Board Eligible

Job description

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Physician - Medical Director - Urgent Care

Apply locations: Shreveport - North Louisiana Region - Louisiana
Time type: Part time
Posted on: Posted 3 Days Ago
Job requisition id: REQ_00234487

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 Health is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible Physician for our Medical Director role in Urgent Care. This physician would oversee 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 across 90+ medical specialties. It operates 47 hospitals and over 370 health and urgent care centers across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Gulf South.

Position Highlights:

1. Embracing a leadership identity: Clear understanding and commitment to success as defined by collective performance; acceptance of responsibility for the performance of others.
2. Professionalism: Understanding of and commitment to the highest standards of professionalism; willingness to hold others to those standards.
3. Recruitment, Performance assessment, compensation, and feedback: Basic capacities in interviewing and providing feedback.
4. Teamwork: Commitment to collaboration; understanding how to assign roles and run effective meetings.
5. Negotiation, conflict resolution, interdepartmental collaboration: Able to frame issues from multiple perspectives, establish, and nurture communication and problem-solving linkages with other sites/sections.

Additional skills include:

• 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 profitability, coding, and billing cycles.
• Project Planning and execution: Able to develop straightforward project plans and timelines.
• Strategy Development within Ochsner’s system: Able to set, track, and achieve local goals; understanding of the operating calendar and related activities.
• System Leadership: Basic knowledge of potential synergies across the System.

Compensation and Benefits:

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

Why Choose Ochsner Health:

• Flexible schedules promoting work-life balance
• Integrated healthcare with multi-specialty collaboration and large internal referral network
• Physician-led organization supporting providers with necessary tools and support
• Opportunities in teaching, research, leadership, and community service
• EPIC medical record platform for flexible patient management

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We are committed to a workplace free from discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, pregnancy, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, military status, citizenship, marital, familial, sexual orientation, gender, genetic information, political affiliation, unemployment, or other protected characteristics.

Are you ready to make a difference? Apply Today!

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