Cardiologist, Advanced Heart Failure – Your Life’s Work in Gainesville, Georgia

Cardiologist, Advanced Heart Failure – Your Life’s Work in Gainesville, Georgia

Your Life’s Work, we’re here to support it all! Georgia Heart Institute, a subsidiary of Northeast Georgia Health System, is seeking the nations brightest and most innovative Cardiologists specializing in Advanced Heart Failure to help us deliver the highest level of heart care to our patients. Come and be a part of one of the largest and most experienced multidisciplinary teams in the nation! There are primary locations available in both Gainesville and Braselton, Georgia.

Benefits of Working at Georgia Heart Institute:

1. Investing in Innovative Technologies
2. Striving for the Highest Quality Outcomes
3. Teaching the Physician Leaders of Tomorrow
4. Discovering New Treatments through Clinical Trials

• Expanding your Skills through Developmental Opportunities

1. Changing the Face of Medicine through Venture Partnerships
2. Thriving in Vibrant Communities Perfect for You & Your Family
3. Partnering with Non-Profits to Impact Social Determinants of Health
4. Diversifying the Workforce by a Purposeful Focus on Equity & Inclusion
5. Excellent Compensation including sign-on bonus, relocation, & malpractice coverage
6. Living Healthy through Provided Wellness Services & Emphasizing Work Life Balance

Practice Overview:

• Dominant cardiovascular market share leader in our 19+ county service area
• Team performs more than 5,000 cardiac procedures and 30,000 consults each year
• Team of more than 100 Cardiologists and Advanced Practice Providers
• Both inpatient and outpatient care
• Group call coverage shared amongst the physicians in the practice
• More than a dozen locations throughout Northeast Georgia
• First hospital in Georgia to receive Emergency Cardiac Care Center (ECCC) designation
• Opportunities to participate in research and teaching residents and cardiac fellows available
• EMR Platform – EPIC

Responsibilities:

Continued development of the current Heart Failure Clinics to improve access and extend the scope of services to identify patients at risk for mortality, hospital readmission, and other adverse events to ensure appropriate evidence based medical and device therapies are provided. Function as a collaborative physician team member within the comprehensive inpatient Heart Failure service including consultative, diagnostic and treatment for high risk hospitalized patients. Identification and evaluation of patients for LVAD candidacy including destination therapy and bridge to transplantation along with coordination of care with neighboring transplantation centers as appropriate.

Do you have what it takes?

1. Board Certified or Board Eligible in Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure Cardiology.
2. 3-5 years of a clinical and administrative/leadership responsibilities
3. Contemporary experience with management of patients on mechanical circulatory support.
4. Leadership opportunity with .8 Clinical and .2 Administrative allocation
5. Possess outstanding communication skills and able to network with referring physicians
6. Functions appropriately as part of care delivery team through efficient use of resources and skills, both their own and those of other provider and staff
7. Actively participates in multi-disciplinary team approach (oversight of advanced practitioners)
8. Pushes envelope to incorporate the latest technology available to streamline services

Georgia Heart Institute (GHI) is the comprehensive, multidisciplinary heart and vascular program of Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS). As the state’s most forward-thinking heart and vascular program, Georgia Heart Institute has been leading the way in heart and vascular care throughout the region for decades – treating thousands of patients annually. Our comprehensive program offers patients convenient access to diagnostics and high-quality routine and preventative care wherever they live throughout the region. Enriched by cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art facilities in Gainesville and Braselton GA, we offer some of the most advanced heart and vascular treatments in the region for even the most complicated conditions.

Northeast Georgia Community Northeast Georgia offers the best quality of life in the Southeast. For more than two centuries, Hall County has been the focal point for arts, education, government, and business in Northeast Georgia. Lake Lanier and the rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains provide a beautiful backdrop for Hall County's varied mix of agricultural, industrial, healthcare and retail industries.

Your next career move is only a heartbeat away: contact Jennifer McCalla, Senior Physician Recruiter, with GHI.

Georgia Heart Institute  (GHI) is the comprehensive, multi-disciplinary heart and vascular program of Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS).  As the state’s most forward-thinking heart and vascular program, Georgia Heart Institute has been leading the way in heart and vascular care throughout the region for decades – treating thousands of patients annually – and this level of advancement and excellence has only continued to grow. Our comprehensive program offers patients convenient access to diagnostics and high-quality routine and preventative care wherever they live throughout the region. Enriched by cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art facilities in Braselton, GA and in Gainesville, GA, we offer some of the most advanced heart and vascular treatments in the region for more even the most complicated conditions.