Emergency Medicine - New Orleans, Louisiana

Ochsner Health System in Louisiana is seeking core faculty academically minded physicians, as well as staff physicians, to join our multi-hospital, 75-physician Emergency Medicine Department.

Opportunities exist at our facilities in the Greater New Orleans region and surrounding communities, including our main academic, tertiary care facility, where a new Emergency Medicine program will be launch in 2017

Opportunity Details:

• Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans is a major transfer center with extreme case complexity seeing 65,000+ visits/year
• All facilities utilize Epic electronic health records integrating care across the system and facilitating seamless multi-hospital practice
• Advanced Practice Providers and scribes facilitate practice performance at all locations
• Operational excellence with 1.6% LWBS and 30 minutes D2D system average
• Employed physician group that offers competitive fair market compensation plus benefits
• All specialties available for consultation and easy one-call transfer from our community emergency departments to our main campus

How to Apply:

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Ochsner is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Ochsner Medical Center is located near Uptown New Orleans and includes acute and sub-acute facilities and centers of excellence: Ochsner Cancer Institute, Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Center and Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute.

As a 473-bed acute care hospital, Ochsner Medical Center offers the opportunity to learn and provide patient care at a Magnet facility with three Centers of Excellence, all the while gaining exposure to complex medical cases. This campus is also one of six training sites in the world for robotic surgery and is nationally known for many skilled physicians.

Ochsner Medical Center has performed the first in utero surgery in the Gulf South region. During a groundbreaking surgery, Ochsner Medical Center’s fetal surgery team of 18 physicians and nurses operated on the 23-week-old fetus while still in his mother’s uterus, a procedure that fewer than 10 hospitals in the United States are able to perform. This surgery corrected a spina bifida birth defect.

Ochsner is the first in the Gulf South region to offer the world’s first and only FDA-approved artificial heart - The SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, which serves a as a bridge to transplant for patients with heart failure.

Beautiful Beginnings start at Ochsner. The Women’s Pavilion at Ochsner Baptist is a premier destination for women and infants that enables Ochsner to provide a unique experience and the highest quality care for women and their families in a top notch, brand new facility.

All women’s services departments at Ochsner Medical Center on Jefferson Highway, including OB/GYN clinics, Labor and Delivery, Maternal Fetal Medicine and Robotic Surgery, and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit have moved to the new Women’s Pavilion at Ochsner Baptist. The Gynecology-Oncology services will remain at Ochsner Medical Center. 

Please visit https://www.ochsner.org/locations/ochsner-medical-center for the list of specialties offered at Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans.

New Orleans is one of the most exciting and vibrant cities in America.  Amenities include multiple universities, academic centers, professional sports teams, world-class dining, cultural interests, renowned live entertainment and music.

In 2009, Ochsner opened the University of Queensland Ochsner Clinical School, Louisiana’s 4th medical school and one of the top 15 medical schools in the world with more than 275 medical residents and fellows working with 23 different Ochsner-sponsored accredited residency training programs. Ochsner also hosts more than 750 medical students in clinical rotations annually.

As an indication of its success, the program currently boasts a 90% Match rate in the National Resident Matching program — with the majority of students securing a place at their first or second choices for residency program. Also of note, 48% of the students choose Primary Care fields, an area of great need in today’s healthcare system.

Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate. Ochsner Health is a not-for-profit committed to giving back to the communities it serves through preventative screenings, health and wellness resources and partnerships with innovative organizations that share our vision. Ochsner Health healed more than 876,000 people from across the globe in 2019, providing the latest medical breakthroughs and therapies, including digital medicine for chronic conditions and telehealth specialty services. Ochsner Health is a national leader, named the top hospital in Louisiana and a top children’s hospital by U.S. News & World Report. As Louisiana’s leading healthcare educator, Ochsner Health and its partners educate thousands of healthcare professionals annually. Ochsner Health is innovating healthcare by investing in new technologies and research to make world-class care more accessible, affordable, convenient and effective. Ochsner's team of more than 26,000 employees and 4,500 providers are working to reinvent the future of health and wellness in the region. To learn more about Ochsner Health, please visit www.ochsner.org. To transform your health, please visit www.ochsner.org/healthyyou.

Ochsner is the only Louisiana hospital recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a  “Best Hospital” across four specialty categories. Click here to see more of our accolades.

Nationally Ranked Hospital
Ranked #1 in Louisiana
Ranked #1 in New Orleans Metro Area
Ranked #1 in Nation for Liver Transplants 3 years in a row