Description

Specialization:
Pediatric Cardiology

Job Summary:

• Board certification in pediatric cardiology
• Must see pediatric cardiology patients in an outpatient setting, as well as see consults and read transthoracic echocardiograms from one or more of our affiliate hospitals in San Antonio, Texas
• Additional experience in inpatient and outpatient cardiology is desired
• The primary responsibility will be seeing pediatric cardiology outpatients in one or more of our outreach clinics in and around the San Antonio metroplex.

• Employed position with Physician Services
• Highly competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package

• The Methodist Congenital Heart Institute is a well-established and rapidly expanding program, which performs the full spectrum of procedures including neonatal cardiac surgery and surgery for low-birth-weight babies, complex valve repair including Cone procedure for Ebstein’s anomaly, pulmonary autograft procedure, and adult congenital heart surgery.
• Our Heart Institute boasts sub-specialty expertise in Pediatric and Fetal Imaging, Electrophysiology, Interventional Cardiology, Inpatient Cardiology, Cardiac Intensive Care, and Adult Congenital Cardiology.
• Largest congenital heart program in San Antonio for pediatrics and adults
• Largest adult heart failure program in South Texas and future plans for pediatric heart transplantation and advanced mechanical circulatory support.
• 228-bed facility with seven operating suites within the 1037-bed Methodist Hospital campus
• 94 NICU beds and a 22-bed pediatric intensive care unit with dedicated pediatric cardiovascular care unit and future for free-standing admit-to-discharge cardiac care unit.
• Congenital heart program enjoys an extensive catchment area and rapidly growing referral base in South and West Texas, with 40% of volume neonates.
• First Level IV NICU in San Antonio and one of the largest in the region
• First pediatric aortic heart valve procedure in Texas
• Methodist Healthcare System is a 50-50 co-ownership between Methodist Healthcare Ministries, South Texas’ largest non-public funding source of community health care, contributing $976 million since 1995; and HCA Healthcare, the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services. Methodist Children’s Hospital is one of the system’s nine acute care hospitals.