As you walk through the doors of Baptist Hospital each morning, you'll enter a unique practice environment where advanced urology care meets the specialized needs of women, children, and a surprisingly robust men's health patient population. Located just two and a half miles from Ochsner's main campus on Jefferson Highway, this 200+ bed facility offers you the perfect blend of subspecialized focus and comprehensive urologic practice. Unlike many women's and children's hospitals where urology takes a back seat, Baptist Hospital has cultivated a thriving urology service that includes everything from complex BPH treatments to erectile dysfunction care, stone management, and general urologic procedures.
Your daily practice will center around the expertise that made your predecessor a regional leader - you'll be stepping into the role of the Gulf South's premier BPH specialist, with access to cutting-edge technologies including Aquablation, where the previous physician performed 150 procedures in the last twelve months alone, ranking in the top five nationally. This isn't just about maintaining a practice; it's about continuing a legacy of innovation that draws patients from across Louisiana and beyond specifically for your expertise.
Baptist Hospital serves as a critical access point for Ochsner Health System's 44-hospital network, with patients traveling from across the greater New Orleans area and beyond. As part of the system's sophisticated transfer center network covering Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Eastern Texas, you'll see both direct referrals and complex cases that require your specific expertise. The hospital's women and children's designation creates a unique patient mix that many urologists never experience - you'll provide essential care for pediatric conditions while also managing one of the region's busiest men's health practices.
You'll work alongside residents in a meaningful teaching capacity - Baptist consistently hosts two urology residents (typically a PGY 2-3 and a PGY 4-5) who are eager to learn from your expertise. This isn't the overwhelming teaching load of a major academic center, but rather the rewarding opportunity to mentor the next generation while they contribute meaningfully to patient care. Your comfort with resident teaching and enthusiasm for education will be essential, as you'll help shape these physicians during critical years of their training.
These positions became available due to the departure of highly successful, innovative urologists who established Baptist as a regional destination for advanced BPH care and men's health services. You'll inherit established referral patterns, strong relationships with primary care providers, and a patient population that already trusts the Baptist urology service. With the service currently down two physicians, there's immediate pent-up demand that will ensure a robust practice from your first day.
This represents a rare opportunity to join a specialized hospital environment where your urology expertise will be uniquely valued and where you can continue building upon an already exceptional foundation of care.