Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Job at HCA Healthcare in San Antonio, TX

Description

Specialization:
Cardiothoracic Surgery

Job Summary:

• Board certified or board eligible
• Eligible for an unrestricted medical licensure in Texas required
• Minimum of 5 years of experience preferred, candidates with less experience will be considered and encouraged to apply
• Experience in routine and complex coronary work, valve repair/replacement and transcatheter valve procedures
• Experience and comfort level with aortic disease, to include open and endovascular aortic procedures
• Experience in routine thoracic and minimally invasive lung surgery
• Knowledge and experience with advanced technologies to reduce the invasiveness of thoracic and cardiovascular procedures
• Superb communication skills, a track record of leadership, and a passion for program development and collaboration

• Ability to primarily focus practice at one of our Methodist Healthcare hospitals
• Call required, expected rotation: 1:5 weekend call; 1:7 weekday call
• Supports 3 cardiology practices with over 150 physicians
• Opportunity to join an established and respected practice, formed in 1997
• Mentorship available from senior physicians
• Employed position with competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefit package that includes health and dental coverage
• Relocation assistance
• Paid malpractice

• Methodist Heart Hospital consistently performs more open heart surgeries than any other hospital in San Antonio, making it the busiest program in the region
• Largest Heart Transplant program in South Texas, saving over 500 lives
• South Texas’ only comprehensive Aortic Aneurysm Program
• Over 2,000 TAVR procedures performed; 400 annually
• Established lung transplant program in 2021
• Over 150 ECMOs annually
• Over 1600 open heart surgeries each year
• Programs include VATS minimally invasive thoracic surgery and lung nodule program
• 25 cath labs
• Five accredited chest pain centers
• Two heart failure clinics
• Methodist Healthcare System is the largest provider of health care in South and Central Texas with 28 facilities, including nine acute care hospitals serving over 94,000 inpatients and 500,000 outpatients annually