General Cardiology APP - St. Helena
Position Description The Cardiology team is seeking a Cardiology NP or PA to work with the care team. This opportunity will play a central role in coordinating safe and appropriate transitions of care for patients .
Location / Work Hours
- Position is based on site at the Adventist Health Heart and Vascular Institute at in St. Helena, California.
Position Qualifications
- APP is responsible and accountable for safe clinical practice; must be knowledgeable of cardiac, vascular, and cardiothoracic patients, medications, standard treatments.
· Maintain knowledge of current cardiac medications and procedures.
- Minimum of three years of recent RN/NP/PA clinical experience in acute patient care, ICU or ER.
- Outstanding communication and telephone skills
- Ability to communicate via telephone with patients and provide good customer service
- Demonstrates professional oral and written communication
- Makes decisions that adhere to policy and use critical thinking skills
- Possesses ability to effectively manage time
Job Responsibilities
Provider Support
- Inpatient consults, rounding, transfer acceptance, cardiac stress test supervision
- Complete patient-required forms including return to work letters, employment forms, and disability forms.
Employed Model: Adventist Health Medical Group
A competitive compensation and benefits package is available
Student loan repayment option available
Compensation: $150,000 - $175,000/year
About the Hospital
Adventist Health St. Helena (AHSH) is a premier destination facility and the longest continually operating Seventh-day Adventist hospital, offering innovative wellness programs and other quality health care services in the Napa Valley region. AHSH includes 151 licensed hospital beds, 61 psychiatric beds at the Center for Behavioral Health in Vallejo and 14 rooms for residential wellness programs. Services include addiction treatment and behavioral health, regional Heart and Vascular Center, home care, maternity, occupational medicine, orthopedics, outpatient cancer center, sleep disorders center, surgery, 12 outpatient clinics and specialist offices and the St. Helena Center for Health.
In 2016, AHSH had 8,825 admissions, 214 deliveries, 8,449 emergency visits and 82,929 outpatient visits. The hospital is staffed by 183 physicians, 1,228 employees and 297 volunteers.
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