Physician - Pediatric Cardiologist

Ochsner Health in New Orleans, LA is seeking a Board Certified / Board Eligible PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGIST . 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.

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

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.

Our dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion is demonstrated by hiring a workforce that celebrates individual uniqueness among people and cultures.

We focus our efforts in key areas that correlate back to our core values of Patient First, Compassion, Integrity, Inclusivity, Excellence and Teamwork.

Our comprehensive Pediatrics Program including primary care pediatricians and pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists (Ochsner Children'sTM) represents over 230 physicians.

The group is the region's leading integrated provider of multispecialty care for newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

We offer a full range of pediatric complex specialty services including congenital heart surgery and cardiac transplantation, liver and bone marrow transplantation, a comprehensive surgical sub-specialty group, and the region's only comprehensive multidisciplinary developmental center.

We recently announced the building of a new separate, comprehensive, dedicated Children's Hospital on our main campus, with expected opening in 2027.

We currently care for patients in an expanding 67-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric CV-ICU, and a 44-bed pediatric acute unit, with a dedicated pediatric emergency room, and full-time, region-wide in-house pediatric and neonatal transport teams.

In addition to patient care, Ochsner Children's Hospital has an ACGME-accredited pediatric residency program and is responsible for teaching pediatric residents from the Tulane-Ochsner Pediatric Residency program as well as medical students from both Tulane and the University of Queensland.

Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana recently announced an agreement to establish a joint College of Medicine.

About Ochsner Children's

Ranked #1 Children's Hospital in Louisiana for the third year in a row and as a top children's hospital nationally for the seventh year in a row by U.

S. News & World Report in 2023-24. Ochsner Children's Hospital was also recognized as a national leader in the most recent rankings in two specialties : Pediatric Cardiology and Heart Surgery, and Pediatric Orthopedics.

Ochsner Children's Hospital continues to be a top destination for pediatric care in the Gulf South region through an unwavering commitment to always putting patients first.

Ochsner Children's offers a full range of pediatric care from primary to quaternary care, with services offered in all subspecialties, including Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Advanced GI and Hepatology, Advanced Orthopedic Surgery, Hematology-Oncology, Cleft Palate / Cranio-Facial Surgery, as well as heart, liver, and bone marrow transplant.

Ochsner Children's is a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to complex conditions. Ochsner Children's Hospital is the top congenital heart program in the state (both in volume and outcomes) and has the largest and most comprehensive pediatric liver transplant program in the Gulf South.

Ochsner also maintains 28 primary care locations across southern Louisiana and 30 subspecialty locations (Including the Shaquille O'Neal Pediatric Super Clinic in Baton Rouge);

and the Boh Center for Child Development, a dedicated multidisciplinary developmental pediatrics center.

If you would like more information about our program or would like to discuss this position with Dr. Sam Lucas, System Section Head, please contact Courtney Lawhun, Physician Recruiter, at [email protected].