Physician - Medical Director - Urgent Care

Position Overview Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport & Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Shreveport is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible Medical Director to oversee three growing Urgent Care clinics in Northern Louisiana. The primary focus: Urgent Care oversight of the APPs, clinics, and some clinical practice. Ochsner Health is an integrated healthcare system with more than 36,000 employees, over 4,600 employed and affiliated physicians across 90+ specialties, operating 47 hospitals and 370+ health and urgent care centers in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Gulf South. The Ochsner LSU Health System of North Louisiana provides healthcare to more than 140,000 patients across North Louisiana with 600,000 clinic visits annually. There are more than 20 locations, including North Louisiana’s only Level I Trauma Center and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center at its acute care hospital. Responsibilities & Qualifications 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 profitability, coding, and 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 support Remote Work Eligibility Individuals who reside in and will work from Colorado, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Washington, and Washington D.C. are not eligible for a remote work position. Please refer to this information to determine whether the position is remote or on‑site. Equal Opportunity Employer 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr