OB Hospitalist

Join Ochsner Health as a Staff Physician, where your commitment to patient care and clinical excellence makes a true difference. In cooperation with other department clinical staff, you will provide and coordinate comprehensive patient care while upholding Ochsner's core values. Discover a rewarding career path with an organization dedicated to serving, healing, leading, educating, and innovating.

Practice Info

• Practice in cooperation with department clinical staff and interdisciplinary teams
• Position involves travel throughout and between facilities
• Position involves the handling of hazardous drugs and/or hazardous drug contaminated products

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
• Ensure accurate coding of all patient visits
• Comply with policies, procedures, bylaws, processes of privileging/credentialing, and standards of care

Qualifications

• Required: Board certified or eligible for certification in physician's primary specialty
• Licensed Practicing Provider MD/DO
• 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.