Clinical Component

Navigating the Clinical Component

This is a general urology practice with a mix of clinic and surgical work across the North Shore. You would see the full range of community urology, with Ochsner South Shore in New Orleans available as a referral resource for cases that run beyond community scope.

Practice Model

The Covington practice operates as a community urology team within the larger Ochsner system. Day to day, it runs independently. When a case calls for subspecialty support, such as complex cancer care or male fertility, those patients route to Ochsner South Shore, which carries the subspecialists the North Shore does not staff. A large share of cancer care still stays local through the cancer center on the Covington side.

Clinic Schedule

  • 20 to 25 patients per day in clinic
  • 15-minute established patient visits, 30-minute new patient visits
  • Three exam rooms per provider
  • Onsite imaging and labs at the Covington clinic
  • Epic EMR with AI scribe support (DeepScribe)

Surgical Volume and Ramp

  • Roughly 95 to 100 surgical procedures annually at present
  • Clinic-heavy schedule now, with OR time added as surgical volume ramps
  • Approximately 90% of surgical cases performed at St. Tammany Hospital

Top Surgical Procedures

  • Ureteroscopy
  • Lithotripsy
  • UroNav prostate biopsy
  • Aquablation
  • UroLift

In-Clinic Procedures

  • Cystoscopy
  • Vasectomy

Surgical and Robotic Access

  • Robotic surgery performed at St. Tammany Hospital on a da Vinci platform
  • Aquablation offered as part of the surgical mix
  • No robot at the Ochsner Surgery Center in Covington; that site handles non-robotic outpatient cases
  • Robotic and OR block time expands as surgical volume grows

Cancer Care

The Covington side runs a cancer center with a urologic oncology presence. The current urologist holds a multidisciplinary clinic with radiation oncology for prostate patients. A urologist who wants to take on more complex oncology patients has a built-in setup to do so, though it is not required for the role. Complex cancer care routes to Ochsner South Shore.

Subspecialty Interest

The position is general urology. A candidate with a focused interest, such as urologic oncology, can build that into the practice through the cancer center. There is no fellowship requirement and no obligation to subspecialize.

Referrals to South Shore

  • Complex cancer care
  • Male fertility

Call

  • St. Tammany call is a 1 in 6 rotation
  • A nurse triage line screens outpatient calls first
  • Urologists rarely come in at night
  • St. Tammany call pay is accrued and paid out; Lakeview pays after call is taken

Referral Base

  • Ochsner primary care on the North Shore feeds the practice
  • St. Tammany operates its own primary care group that also refers in
  • Both referral streams currently send a share of urology business to outside groups, which the practice is positioned to capture

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