OB Hospitalist

At Ochsner Health, you are making a difference every day by joining a team committed to serving, healing, leading, educating, and innovating. An Ochsner Staff Physician will provide and coordinate patient care in cooperation with other members of the department clinical staff. Discover your future today and help patients thrive within a supportive and dedicated healthcare environment.

Practice Info

• Involves the handling of hazardous drugs and/or hazardous drug contaminated products either through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste, including contact with patients who may receive hazardous drugs.

Responsibilities

• Examine the health of a patient to help make proper diagnosis of clinical conditions and prescribing medication, treatments, and follow-up care as required.
• Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens to treat identified and documented medical conditions.
• Provide care directly and indirectly by working with other members of an interdisciplinary team to formulate treatment plans.
• Timely record patient encounters in Electronic Health Record.
• Request further medical evaluations and make referrals, as necessary.
• Understand and commit to the highest standards of professionalism; willingness to hold others to those standards.
• Commit to collaboration with all members of the department to provide quality patient care.
• Ensure accurate coding of all patient visits.

Qualifications

• Required - Board certified or eligible for certification in physician's primary specialty
• Required - Licensed Practicing Provider MD/DO
• Required - Credentialed and willing to maintain clinical practice
• 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.