Physician - Rheumatology

Job Description

Job Title : Physician Job Summary :

• The Staff Physician provides direct patient care and emergency services in an effort to ensure that patient health care needs are met at all times.
  
  

Experience, Education, Training, Special Skills, And Licensure

• MD
• Current unrestricted Louisiana Medical License
  
  

Job Function

• Patient Care
• Provides direct patient care in the office and at other locations, develops treatment plans, and assesses patient's response to treatment while ensuring that all health care services provided are of the highest quality.
• Provides high quality emergency care to patients on an on-call basis and in rotation with other physicians in an effort to ensure that patient health care needs are met at all times (Industrial Medical Center's Staff Physician does not provide on-call services).
• Quality and Performance Improvement
• Investigates new techniques, practices, and equipment in an effort to identify ways of maximizing the quality and efficiency of health care services provided to patients.
• Assists in the development and implementation of continuous quality improvement programs and participates in multi-disciplinary continuous quality improvement efforts. Assists in ensuring that all services provided by the department are performed with compassion, understanding, and respect for others.
• Ensures the appropriate application of the hospital's mission and philosophy and departmental and hospital policies and procedures in a manner that promotes the provision of high quality health care services and departmental effectiveness.
• Promotes the quality and efficiency of his/her own performance by remaining current with the latest trends in field of expertise through participation in job-relevant seminars and workshops, attendance at professional conferences, and affiliations with national and state professional organizations.
• Collaboration and Partnership
• Collaborates with other physicians in order to ensure the provision of high quality medical care and technologically advanced health care services by the hospital.
• Participates in educational programs, in-service meetings, and training sessions in an effort to share his/her own expertise with others and further the quality of education and personal growth provided to new personnel, volunteers, and interning students.
• Other Duties
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.
  
  

About Us

Our Lady of the Lake is uniquely capable of caring for a full range of illness or injury, including those that are extremely complex, for both pediatric and adult patients. Our family of services includes:

• An 988-bed hospital and the area’s only Level II Trauma Center
• A freestanding Children's Hospital
• A 545-provider care network covering more than 40 specialties
• Two free-standing emergency rooms—Our Lady of the Lake Livingston and Our Lady of the Lake North
• A network of nearly 15 urgent care clinics
• Outpatient imaging and surgery centers
• Assumption Community Hospital
• Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University
• Our Lady of the Lake Ascension , a 78-bed, community hospital providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and surgical services to Ascension Parish and surrounding areas
  
  

We serve 38,000 inpatients and 820,000 outpatients annually and are committed to building a healthy community through excellence in patient care and education. A part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Our Lady of the Lake is consistently awarded for compassionate care, clinical expertise, leading edge technology and innovation.