Physician - Medical Director - Urgent Care

ACEP Now; Shreveport (LA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Shreveport is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible Medical Director for Urgent Care. This role involves overseeing three clinics in Northern Louisiana, focusing on leadership, professionalism, and effective communication. The ideal candidate will embody strong team collaboration and possess a fundamental understanding of healthcare finance. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Malpractice coverage

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Optional retirement plans

Responsibilities

• Oversight of APPs and clinics in Northern Louisiana.
• Lead the Urgent Care operations effectively.
• Ensure professionalism and accountability in the team.

Skills

Leadership

Professionalism

Communication

Teamwork

Conflict Resolution

Healthcare Finance

Project Planning

Strategy Development

Education

Board Certified/Board Eligible

Job description

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.

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 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, 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

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Please refer to the job description to determine whether the position you are interested in is remote or on‑site. Individuals who reside in and will work from the following areas are not eligible for remote work position: Colorado, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C.

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.