Neonatologists - New Orleans, United States - Ochsner Health

Description

Ochsner Health in New Orleans is seeking physicians BC/BE in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine to join our expanding section of seven neonatologists. Recent graduates and experienced neonatologists with training or experience in level IV NICU are invited to consider joining our division working alongside a team of experienced advance practice practitioners. We are the only hospital in Louisiana to provide both Level IV neonatal and obstetric care at the same facility, Ochsner Baptist Hospital.

Opportunity Details:

• Ochsner Baptist Hospital features a state-of-the-art 54 bed, level IV NICU with private rooms for singleton patients as well as multiples.
• Our section of fetal echo is located at Ochsner Baptist Hospital and coordinates care of babies with complex congenital heart diseases.
• Our team participates in the Vermont Oxford Network, has continuous performance improvement initiatives underway.
• A full spectrum of pediatric medical and surgical subspecialty support is always available.
• Ochsner Baptist offers neonatal telemedicine services and a neonatal resident rotation.
• Access to professional development courses and learning opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• The position includes the opportunity to work at a new, state of the art surgical-NICU and offers a competitive compensation package commensurate with experience, with full benefits, paid location, and a signing bonus.

The Department of Pediatrics and our pediatric subspecialists (collectively, Ochsner Hospital for ChildrenTM) represent over 230 pediatric physicians. The group is the region's leading integrated provider of multispecialty care for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. We offer a full range of pediatric services including bone marrow transplantation, solid organ transplantation, pediatric cardiovascular surgery, and a comprehensive pediatric surgical sub-specialty group, as well as the region's only comprehensive multidisciplinary developmental center. We utilize a 54-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric CVICU, a 44-bed pediatric acute unit, a pediatric emergency room, and dedicated, full-time, region-wide in-house pediatric and neonatal transport teams. In December 2023 Ochsner announced the building of a new separate, comprehensive, dedicated Children's Hospital on our main health sciences campus, with expected opening in 2027. This with further amplify our ability to function as a wide regional quaternary care destination center for Children' across the Gulf South and the central US.

About Ochsner Hospital for Children

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 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 Hospital for Children 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 is a rapidly expanding 125-bed children's hospital offering a full range of pediatric care from primary to quaternary care, with services offered in all subspecialties, and includes 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. Much of Ochsner Children's care is provided by multi-disciplinary teams dedicated to complex conditions. The hospital not only performed the first pediatric heart/kidney transplant in the region but is also the top congenital heart program in the state (both in volume and outcomes). We are the only liver transplant center in the Gulf South as well.

Specialties and Sub-specialties: More than 30 including regions ONLY

• Pediatric liver transplant AND newborn liver disease screening system-wide
• Pediatric heart transplant
• Pediatric pancreatology
• Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Child Development Center- Boh Center
• Only NICU in the region with Rapid Whole (sp.) Genome Sequencing - allowing early diagnosis and accelerated care for some of most complex NICU babies.
• Only children's health system with integrated psychology, embedded in our primary care practices.

Unique programs and FIRSTS:

• First pediatric heart and liver transplants in the state
• First pediatric heart and kidney combined transplant (need to validate with Dr. Cohen or Ana Hands)
• First unrelated, living donor liver transplant.
• First Piccolo PDA procedure in the state
• First School Nurse/Healthy Schools program covering 12,250 students at 21 schools.

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.