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Huntsville Hospital Heart Center is seeking candidates for Board Certified/Board Eligible Advanced Heart Failure Cardiologists to join our team.  HH Heart Center is a wholly owned subsidiary of Huntsville Hospital, one of the largest non-profit health care systems in the nation.

Practice information

• HH Heart Center is one of the largest and most well-established groups of Cardiologists and Cardiac Surgeons in the Southeast
• Huntsville Hospital is a regional referral center with 881 beds
  • 121 Cardiology beds, 34 Cardiac ICU Beds
• Huntsville Hospital is part of the Huntsville Hospital Health System with 13 regional hospitals, 2,588 licensed beds, and 17,000+ employees
• The Heart Center practice is composed of 28 general cardiologists , 10 interventional cardiologists (including 4 structural cardiologists), 5 electrophysiologists, 2 Advanced Heart failure cardiologists, and 6 cardiothoracic surgeons, with the following annual volumes:
  • 100,000+ clinic visits annually
  • 60,000+ non-invasive tests annually
    • 5000+ CTs
    • 16,000 Stress tests
    • 30,000+ cardiac ultrasounds
    • 12,500+ peripheral vascular studies
  • 12,500 cath lab procedures
  • 3000+ interventions
  • 700+ STEMIs
  • 3,200+ EP procedures
  • 1400+ cardiothoracic surgeries
  • 500+ structural procedures, including TAVR, MitraClip and LAAC
• Advanced imaging modalities include cardiac PET, cardiac MRI, PYP imaging, Cardiac CT
• The practice provides robust inpatient and outpatient APP support
• Tremendous provider support; upon hire, you will have a dedicated nurse, CMA, scheduler and chart preloader
• Hospital and clinic are across the street from each other- no traveling to multiple hospitals
• In-house Cardiac Rehab Program
• In-house Anticoagulation Clinic Management
• Largest hospital in the HH Health System and second largest hospital in Alabama

HH Heart Failure

• Outpatient Congestive Heart Failure Clinic
  • 9,000+ Heart Failure Clinic Visits
  • 8 Heart Failure NP’s
• Inpatient Heart Failure Navigator
• Close collaboration with Vanderbilt Medical Center and UAB Medical Center for patients requiring LVAD/transplant, both within a 2 hour drive.
• Clinical assistant professorship offering through UAB
• Teaching opportunities for medical students from UAB, and residents from our in-house FM and IM residencies
• Robust research division including opportunity to be the local PI on major national/international clinical trials

Requirements

• BC/BE in Advanced Heart Failure/Transplant Cardiology
• Unrestricted Alabama MD/DO license
• Interest in pulmonary hypertension preferred but not required

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Health, life, vision, dental, and disability insurance
• Physicians Qualify for the Public Loan Forgiveness Program
• Robust retirement savings options
• Professional liability insurance
• Assistance with mandatory hospital credentialing and state licensing, and reimbursement of associated fees.

Huntsville

• Huntsville is multicultural and the fastest growing major metropolitan area in Alabama
• Technology, space and defense industries play a major role in Huntsville
• Huntsville Symphony Orchestra, US Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville Botanical Garden, Huntsville Museum of Art, Early Works Children's Museum, Monte Sano State Park, Bridgestreet Town Center, Lowe Mill Art and Entertainment Center, Midcity District, Campus 805, and multiple concert venues are just some of the main attractions!
• Beautiful natural surroundings including lakes and rivers
• Minor League Baseball Team, Hockey Team, and Semi-pro Soccer Team
• Huntsville Ranked #1 Best City to Live Nationwide by U.S. News (2022)
• Huntsville is named #1 (2023) Top 50 Best Places to Raise Children in the U.S. by US News and World Report
• Huntsville Hospital named by Becker’s Review as “One of the top 100 Hospitals  in the Nation with Great Heart Programs”
• Direct flights from Huntsville International Airport to Miami, Denver, Houston, Detroit, Chicago, and more!
• 2 hour driving distance to Nashville, TN and Birmingham, AL, 4 hour driving distance to Atlanta, GA