Nationally Recognized Heart Institute of East Texas is Seeking Interventional Cardiologist

Interventional Cardiologist Opportunity in Lufkin, Texas

The Heart Institute of East Texas is located in beautiful Lufkin, Texas.  The HIET has been the leading practice in East Texas since 1982.  While currently servicing a very large population, The HIET is expanding into six new communities in East Texas providing nine new ancillary services.  Expansion includes a new 9,000 sq foot building that will perform Vein & Vascular, CHF, Wellness, Anticoagulation, among many other new services.  The HIET is recruiting an Interventional Cardiologist to join the practice.  The opportunity includes, but is not limited to:

• Signing Bonus
• Relcocation Allowance
• CME Allowance
• Extremely Competitive Compensation
• Malpractice Insurance
• Comprehensive Benefits Package
• Retirement Package
• Pre-Partnership
• Academic Affiliation
• Comfortable Work & Home Life Balance
• Regions Leading Physician Group
• State of the Art Facilities
• Low cost of living in the Pineywoods of East Texas
• Close Proximity to Houston

Enjoy the great outdoors! Spend time on Lake Sam Rayburn, hike through Angelina National Forest and camp beneath the stars. Deep East Texas is the ideal location for a quality work/life balance. Live in the country and still be a short drive to the hospital.

Located in the heart of the Texas Forest Country, CHI St. Luke’s Health System provides health care to a 15 county region. The primary service areas are Angelina and Polk Counties, while Cherokee, Houston, San Augustine, and Trinity counties make up the secondary market. The total population for the System’s service area is approximately 500,000.*hec*

Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI), a nonprofit, faith-based health system formed in 1996 through the consolidation of four Catholic health systems, expresses its mission each day by creating and nurturing healthy communities in the hundreds of sites across the nation where it provides care. One of the nation’s largest health systems, Englewood, Colo.-based CHI operates in 19 states and comprises 105 hospitals, including four academic health centers and major teaching hospitals and 30 critical-access facilities; community health-services organizations; accredited nursing colleges; home-health agencies; and other facilities that span the inpatient and outpatient continuum of care. In fiscal year 2014, CHI provided $910 million in charity care and community benefit -- a nearly 20% increase over the previous year -- for programs and services for the poor, free clinics, education and research. Charity care and community benefit totaled more than $1.7 billion with the inclusion of the unpaid costs of Medicare. The health system, which generated revenues of almost $13.9 billion in fiscal year 2014, has total assets of $21.8 billion.

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