Family Practice - Without OB Physician

NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR A FULL-TIME EMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIAN FOR ST JAMES PARISH HOSPITAL IN LUTCHER, LOUISIANA! Less than an hour from New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Physician Benefits:

• 12-hour shifts
• Partnership opportunities for full-time physicians
• Competitive hourly rates
• Independent Contractor status
• "A" rated professional liability insurance

Physician Requirements:

• BC/BE in Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, or Internal Medicine
• Current ATLS, ACLS, and PALS for non-BC-EM physicians
• Current unrestricted Louisiana state medical license and DEA

About Professional Emergency Physician Associates (PEPA)

Headquartered in Lafayette, Louisiana, PEPA is a leading provider of emergency medicine and emergency department management services, across Louisiana. With a history of exceptional quality and clinical leadership excellence backed by comprehensive national support, our clinical operations currently include 7 hospitals, supported by 85 emergency medicine physicians, 55 advanced practice providers, and 70 scribes that, in aggregate, care for more than 175,000 patients annually. PEPA s partner group proprietary customer analytics platform seamlessly interfaces with each hospital s IT platform. Allowing to capture critical service quality and departmental efficiency metrics, our industrial engineers and data scientists work with clinical leadership to validates and ensure local service quality and consistent patient experience within each customers emergency department. In addition, PEPA s unique physician equity partnership opportunity provides alignment with our national relationship and local quality benchmarks, helping to synergize the local clinical leaders, hospitals, and communities we serve.

Candidates considering a career within the Professional Emergency Physician Associates (PEPA) family of facilities and affiliated partners will find a variety of community types (from rural locations to major urban areas), practice settings (small critical access and free-standing hospitals to major academic health systems and trauma centers).

COMMUNITY INFORMATION

Serving the river region in Louisiana, St. James Parish Hospital is located in Lutcher, Louisiana. Lutcher is best known for its agriculture, and recreation. If you want to take a step away from your busy life and enjoy the wonders of St James Parish, it would be so easy to become engulfed in the recreations specific to the area. From history books to cultural activities, festivals and live entertainment to eating delicious Cajun food at any of the nationally known restaurants, watching some of the South's biggest high school sporting events or the recreational department's events to taking swamp tours on our beautiful waterways, there is always entertainment of different forms in St. James Parish.

FACILITY INFORMATION

Established in 1955, St. James Parish Hospital has delivered health and wellness services to the River Parishes for nearly 65 years. St. James Parish Hospital offers quality Inpatient, Outpatient, Emergency, Primary Care and Urgent Care Services and promise to provide these services with care and compassion. The small size of the hospital allows for a focus on value over volume. St. James Parish Hospital is a 25-bed critical access hospital that provides services for Lutcher, Louisiana. The emergency department has 8 beds with an annual ED volume of 11,500. Single Physician coverage, 12-hour shifts with shifts from 6a-6p and 6p-6a. St. James Parish Hospital utilizes CMR for their EMR in the ED.