Full Time

Baptist Health is seeking to employ a Board Certified Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologist who will have primarily a heart failure, MCS and transplant practice. Further interest in pulmonary hypertension, amyloid, and sarcoid will be supported also. There are currently five Cardiologists in the program and 100% of their practices are the advanced heart failure patient population. Together with the existing physicians, the new Heart Failure physician will receive referrals from Cardiologists around the state who will send their patients to this statewide advanced heart failure center.

Baptist Health has been a leader in cardiovascular services in Arkansas for almost 50 years. With each advancement in cardiovascular services over this time, Baptist Health has been the first: the first adult heart transplant; the first LVAD; and the first Total Artificial Heart. In 2010, the Baptist Health Heart Failure and Transplant Institute was opened. The Institute is Arkansas’ first center devoted exclusively to advanced heart failure, MCS, and transplant, with an active adult ECMO program. Currently Baptist Health is the only active adult heart-transplant provider in Arkansas. To date, Baptist Health has performed 316 heart transplants and are following over 200 post-transplant patients. As one of the leading and top 5 enrolling centers of the Momentum trial and CAP, we have implanted over 500 patients with a HeartMate device. We are currently following 195 VAD patients out in the community. We also recently implemented the first formal statewide Shock/ECMO network.

Baptist Health has the infrastructure and resources in place to make this practice successful. The facility was built in 2010 and has fourteen exam rooms. The total facility space is almost 10,000 square feet. The support staff includes 4 VAD nurses, 3 transplant nurses, 6 heart failure nurses, 2 physician assistants, 3 advanced practice nurses, a social worker, a PharmD, a dietician, transplant administrator, financial manager and coordinators, data coordinator with additional clerical support staff. We have Echo, lab, x-ray and cardiopulmonary stress testing in the clinic. Clinical research is well supported in our practice also.

This opportunity is an employment agreement with Arkansas Health Group (AHG), a subsidiary of Baptist Health. Compensation includes a base salary, bonus opportunity, and generous benefits. All physician positions are for Board Certified or Board Eligible MDs or DOs. All physicians must be able to obtain Arkansas licensure before they begin practicing.

Interested candidates please contact:

Dana Heifner

Physician Recruiter

501-312-1818

dana.heifner@baptist-health.org

or

Phillip Wallace

Sr. Physician Recruiter

501-202-4377

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