Physician- Primary Care- Northshore (Covington)

LCMC Health; Covington (LA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Compassionate work environment

Community support

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Covington, LA, is seeking a full-time Physician. In this role, you will provide medical care, perform routine examinations, and collaborate with clinical staff to ensure quality patient care. The ideal candidate should possess a Doctoral Degree in Medicine or Osteopathy and meet necessary licensure requirements. Being part of an inspiring community, you will contribute to delivering exceptional healthcare services while maintaining safety and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Completed residency training.
• Medical Physician Licensure through the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners.

Responsibilities

• Provides quality care to patients.
• Responds to patients' calls and messages.
• Maintains patient and business records.
• Ensures compliance with safety and infection control standards.

Skills

Patient care

Communication

Safety and infection control

Education

Doctoral Degree in Medicine or Osteopathy

Tools

Basic Life Support Certification

Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification

Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certification

Job description

Overview

The Physician provides medical care and treatment to patients. Provides consultation and medical supervision to the clinical staff. Performs routine examinations, diagnoses and provides treatment for illnesses and injuries to promote the patients' overall well-being, and provides immunizations according to medical or school guidelines.

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Physician
Primary Care
Covington, LA
Full-time

The Physician provides medical care and treatment to patients. Provides consultation and medical supervision to the clinical staff. Performs routine examinations, diagnoses and provides treatment for illnesses and injuries to promote the patients' overall well-being, and provides immunizations according to medical or school guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Patient Care: Provides quality care to the patient. Responds to patients' calls and messages and attends to patients. Maintains patient and business records including the completion of daily patient encounters. Observes patients for signs and symptoms of abuse/neglect and reports immediately in accordance with appropriate policy. Recognizes emergencies and responds appropriately in adherence to organizational policies and procedures.
• Patient Access: Participates in a physician call schedule which is evenly distributed between providers and offers patient meeting slots as deemed by the designed template.
• Safety and Infection Control Standards: Assists with compliance to safety, environmental, infection control, quality improvement and other regulatory standards. Implements standard and transmission-based precautions and ensures patient safety during clinic visits, in accordance with the hospital/regulatory policies. Maintains a clean clinic working environment. Reports any safety hazards or violations in patient or clinic environment to clinic manager or designee.
• Medical Director Duties (if applicable): Ensures provider compliance with patient access, patient care, etc. Communicates provider concerns to administration, communicates initiatives and solutions to providers. Completes provider assessment and reviews including reviewing this with the provider. Develops and maintains work and call schedules.

Qualifications

• Experience Qualifications: Completed residency training.
• Education Qualifications: Doctoral Degree in Medicine or Osteopathy.
• Licenses and Certifications: American Heart Association, Basic Life Support-HCP, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, and Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certification. Medical Physician Licensure through the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners.

Work Shift

Days (United States of America)

About the Organization

LCMC Health is a community. Our people make health happen. While our NOLA roots run deep, our branches are the vessels that carry our mission of bringing the best possible care to every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond and put a little more heart and soul into healthcare along the way. Celebrating authenticity, originality, equity, inclusion and a little “come on in” attitude is the foundation of LCMC Health’s culture of everyday extraordinary.

Lakeview Hospital, the center of LCMC Health’s extraordinary community of care on the Northshore, provides the only Level II trauma center in St. Tammany Parish. Along with our signature healthcare and wellness services, we continuously adopt the latest treatments, technologies, and medical innovations to better serve our patients. Learn more about Lakeview Hospital and our nationally recognized standards of excellence for heart, stroke, orthopedic, and women’s care.

Your extras

• Deliver healthcare with heart.
• Give people a reason to smile.
• Put a little love in your work.
• Be honest and real, but with compassion.
• Bring some lagniappe into everything you do.
• Forget one-size-fits-all, think one-of-a-kind care.
• See opportunities, not problems – it’s all about perspective.
• Cheerlead ideas, differences, and each other.
• Love what makes you, you - because we do.

You are welcome here

LCMC Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The above job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed by people assigned to this work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

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