Primary Care Physician - AVALA Care - Full-Time
Primary Care Physician Responsibilities
- Provides and manages direct patient care, including physical examinations, evaluations, assessments, diagnoses and treatment for a specified patient population.
- Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens as appropriate to assessed medical conditions.
- Refers patients to specialists and to relevant patient care components as appropriate.
- Directs and coordinates the patient care activities of nursing and support staff as required.
- Follows established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and/or infection control standards.
About The Clinic
- 100% Outpatient Clinic
- Internal referral base of patients
- Ability to build and grow a practice within a team environment
Financials and Benefits
- Hightly competitive salary including productivity bonuses
- Sign-on bonus
- Relocation assistance
- CME allowance
- Comprehensive executive benefits package, including retirement
AVALA
AVALA is a premier 21-bed surgical hospital operating in Covington, Louisiana, which is located on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain, in the suburbs of New Orleans. In addition to the hospital, AVALA provides diagnostic imaging services, physical and hand therapy, physician clinics, and urgent orthopedic care. As a Physician-Owned and operated hospital, the doctor-patient relationship is of the utmost importance and drives our decisions when offering patient care. Our doctors are highly trained in the most advanced medical treatments and invests in minimally invasive technology for performing procedures and surgeries. Our physicians are the key to the success of our patients and AVALA is fully invested in providing a first-class work environment for our physicians to practice. AVALA is honored to be selected as the 2025 Women’s Choice Award for Best Orthopedic Hospitals and the 2025 Women’s Choice Award as one of America’s Best Hospitals for Minimally Invasive Surgery. AVALA was also honored with the 2026 USA Today Top Workplaces. Our affiliated physicians are also receiving top local and national honors from Becker’s List and are recipients of Castle Connolly’s 2025 Top Doctor Awards.