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Location

Baton Rouge, LA | United States

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Job description

Join the Behavioral Health team at Woman’s Hospital where we uniquely focus on providing exceptional healthcare for women.

Job Summary:

In an effort to address the increasing incidence of perinatal mental health disorders in our region, Woman’s Hospital has made a commitment to developing an inpatient perinatal mental health unit. The new 10-bed inpatient unit will focus solely on the diagnosis and treatment of perinatal mental health disorders in the antepartum period and up to 12 months postpartum.

Woman’s Hospital is seeking a full-time psychiatrist to serve as medical director of our perinatal mental health unit. The physician will primarily provide inpatient clinical services related to the evaluation and treatment of mental health disorders in the perinatal population. The physician will also collaborate with our current mental healthcare providers to support our existing outpatient clinic that focuses predominantly on supporting the mental health of women experiencing perinatal mood disorders, complex mood disorders, anxiety and depression related to pregnancy and cancer diagnoses.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation
• Productivity and quality bonuses
• Comprehensive benefits package
• CME allowance
• Medical Director stipend

Qualifications:

• Licensed to practice medicine in the state of Louisiana
• MD or DO
• Board Certified in Psychiatry

Woman’s Hospital is a private, non-profit specialty hospital located in Baton Rouge, LA consistently recognized for its care of women and infants. Woman’s Hospital has been named a World’s Best Hospital by Newsweek for the third consecutive year. The hospital has 168 licensed hospital beds and 84 NICU beds, delivering 8000 babies, performing 9000 surgeries and treating over 1000 new cancer patients annually.

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