Family Medicine Physician in Morgan , LA

Physician - Family Medicine - Morgan City, LA

Ochsner Health - Primary Care

Ochsner Health is seeking a Board Certified/Board Eligible Family Medicine Physician to provide combined inpatient and outpatient primary care in Morgan City, LA. This candidate would be joining a well-established Family Med physician, who has been practicing at this location for 2 years. Physicians at any point in their career - directly from residency training or with experience - are invited to apply for this full-time position treating patients from birth to end of life.

As a global medical and academic leader, we are seeking a dynamic, collaborative primary care physician with a patients-first focus to provide excellent comprehensive medical care for our community.

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.

Position Highlights:

• Refill center managing over 70% of your refills
• Ambient listening available to everyone in Primary care to reduce documentation time
• LPN Care Coordinators dedicated to closing care gaps on your behalf
• Ochsner On-Call to reduce call burden
• Remote messaging Nurses to reduce in basket messages sent through the portal
• Outpatient Care Managers to assist with complex patient management and helping with social determinant of your patients Health
• Digital Medicine - supporting the management of patients with chronic conditions.

Opportunity Details:

• Family Medicine inpatient and outpatient care with strong staffing support
• Competitive salary with generous sign-on bonus
• 9 Start EPIC EMR with strong technical support
• 10 days of paid CME with annual stipend plus generous vacation
• Call 1:5; less often on weekends
• As a 503 (c) organization, employment with Ochsner Health qualifies you for some Federal loan forgiveness programs

Qualifications:

• Board Certified/Board eligible in Family Medicine
• Excellent clinical and communication skills

Compensation and Benefits:

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

Interested physicians should apply to:

J1 opportunities are available.

Why Choose Ochsner Health:

• Flexible schedules to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
• Integrated health care delivery model with multi-specialty collaboration, large internal referral network and innovative resources dedicated to improving patient care and your ease of practice.
• Physician-led organization that ensures our providers are given the tools and support needed to care for patients.
• Professional development opportunities in teaching, research, physician leadership and community service.
• EPIC medical record platform utilized throughout the health system to enhance flexibility in patient management.
• At Ochsner, innovation is at the core of everything we do. We are a pioneer in telemedicine and population health, including innovative chronic disease management programs for hypertension and diabetes. Our team-based practices are designed to provide you with the support you need to best serve your patients, while also offering excellent work-life balance. Ochsners commitment to coordination of care will allow you to seamlessly refer patients to trusted specialists.
  
  Our strong commitment to academic medicine offers you participation in clinical teaching with options for academic teaching, research and academic titles.
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