Description
Northwest Permanente (NWP) is the largest multispecialty medical group in Oregon and southwest Washington with 1,500+ physicians and 300+ administrative professionals caring for 615,000+ Kaiser Permanente members. Northwest Permanente is owned and led by physicians who earn competitive salaries, without income based on providing individual services. Our medical group comprises board-certified physicians across 50+ specialties.
We invite applications for an American Board Certified or Eligible Cardiologist with sub-specialty training in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. Our new partner will join a team of 25 cardiologists for a mixed practice of advanced heart failure (MCS, heart transplant, shock) with general cardiology.
Applications accepted here for our Portland, Oregon practice opportunity. Alternatively, if you are not interested in this opportunity, but know someone that would love working in Kaiser Permanente's highly regarded heart program, please consider participating in our $5000 Refer-A-Friend program.
What You Can Expect:
- An Advanced heart failure team that includes 4 advanced heart failure boarded cardiologists, 1 transplant coordinator, 2 LVAD coordinators and a social worker.
- A multidisciplinary team that includes cardiothoracic surgery, structural and interventional cardiology, electrophysiology and pulmonary critical care.
- Temporary MCS (no ecmo at this time) and DT LVAD implanting center.
- Sustained growth in an established LVAD program. Sunnyside Medical Center has one of the only two LVAD programs in the entire KP system.
- Transplant patient care that is completely internalized within 8-10 weeks based on complexity. Collaboration within Kaiser Permanente's National Transplant Services and externally with our Centers of Excellence to optimally support the care of our heart failure patients.
- Cath lab procedures include right heart catheterization with vasoreactivity challenge and endomyocardial biopsies. If interested, our new hire could also do TEEs.
- Advanced heart failure call/inpatient service one week a month. Call includes a mix of heart failure and general cardiology. Night call is advanced heart failure alone.
We Provide You:
- Generous automatic employer-funded pension and retirement contributions totaling 21% of clinician eligible earnings with additional employee contribution optional.
- Competitive compensation that is not based on fee-for-service model.
- Pathway for physicians to become shareholders of Northwest Permanente.
- Paid annual education leave + annual education allowance.
- Comprehensive benefits including largely employer-funded medical, dental insurance premiums, life insurance, and paid leave.
- Complete professional liability coverage provided at no cost, 100% reimbursement for obtaining and maintaining board certification, continuing medical education reimbursement, and in-house CME opportunities.
- Total Rewards value range of $595,741 - $696,000.
The annual salary for this position is $501,100 - $538,800 which considers an applicant’s skills and qualifications, certain degrees and certifications, training, market data, and other relevant factors. In addition to the salary range above, NWP offers rich benefits that add substantial value to the total compensation package. ‘
For additional information, please email or call/text Senior Recruiter, Shana.T.Klemchuk@kp.org or 971-347-5826. We welcome applications at Northwest Permanente’s Career Site.
Job Requirements:
- American board certified or eligible in cardiology
- Congestive heart failure fellowship completion
- Advanced heart failure boarded applicant, preferred
