The Heart Institute of East Texas seeks EP Cardiologists to join their premier cardiology group in Lufkin, TX!

The Heart Institute of East Texas seeks EP Cardiologists to join their premier cardiology group in Lufkin, TX!

Mainly EP Cardiology, but will pick up General Cardiology cases when on call

Opportunity Highlights:

• Salary compensation starting above 75th percentile
• Voluntary academic appointments with Baylor College of Medicine
• Access to 6 Cath Labs
• Partnership Track available
• All tools and equipment available for success with patient procedures. The sky is the limit for ablations and 3D mapping!
• Care team approach for all physicians- great support in all areas!

Opportunity Requirements:

• MD/DO
• BC/BE *must be certified by 3 years out of training
• Licensed in TX or ability to obtain

Opportunity Benefits:

• 20 days vacation time
• Full Medical Benefits available to physician
• 401k after the 1st year
• CME $5,000, 5 days (in addition to vacation time)

A thriving healthcare system is seeking qualified multi specialty Cardiologists for a mature Cardiovascular service line. The opportunity is with the Heart Institute of East Texas, a large multispecialty cardiology group providing services at two hospitals local hospitals and two open heart programs. HIET has been instrumental in the development and Stewart ship of the 2 heart programs including 6 Cardiac catheterization labs, three dedicated CVOR suites, One Hybrid OR, da Vinci Robotic Surgical Systems.

Located in the heart of the Texas Forest Country, Health System provides health care to a 15-county region. The primary service areas are Angelina and Polk Counties, while Cherokee, Houston, San Augustine, and Trinity counties make up the secondary market. The is a large built-in referral base of patients. There is a large coverage area of more than 350,000 lives.  

There are plenty of recreational activities from fishing, hunting, water sports within easy reach. Enjoy the lush green countryside, pine tree-covered hills and lakes.  Year-round outdoor activities include golfing, camping, hiking, boating at hand. With large metropolitan city of Houston and International Airport of Houston, this opportunity provides a great place for perfect work life balance. 

The Heart Institute of East Texas the leading practice in East Texas since 1982. It is well established and services a population encompassing 350,000 in patient lives. HIET Cardiologists served as ACC Champions to collaborate with CHI St. Luke’s Health- Memorial Lufkin to become designated as a HeartCARE Center National Distinction of Excellence by the American College of Cardiology for 2018 and 2019.They are the only hospital in the CHI system to achieve this distinction and were one of the first 10 hospitals in the nation (2^nd in the state of Texas and 9^th in the Nation).

The Heart Institute of East Texas, on behalf of CHI St. Luke’s Health Memorial – Lufkin, received a TMF Physician Practice Quality Improvement Gold Award for improving patient outcomes in high-priority clinical areas while applying innovative strategies to advance quality health care. The team from The Heart Institute of East Texas are among 32 health care providers out of 36,000 in seven states and the territory of Puerto Rico to receive the Gold Level award for 2018 -2019 year. HIET offers a dyad leadership model with a physician leader and an administrative leader for each service line. The doctors and their administrative colleagues work together to make it a better place.

Our goal has always been to bring the level of technology and care of metropolitan areas to East Texas so patients would not have to travel long distances for high quality of care. The Heart Institute of East Texas has been instrumental in providing break-through technologies to Lufkin. For more than three decades the Heart Institute of East Texas has forged the way to bring state-of-the art technologies right here at home.