Non-Invasive Cardiologist in the Black Hills of South Dakota

With a team of board-certified physicians, skilled support staff and excellent facilities, Monument Health Heart & Vascular Institute offers a full spectrum of cardiovascular care.

Our ideal candidate will have a strong interest in diagnostic testing and the desire to work in very busy clinical setting. Offices are fully equipped for stress testing, Holter monitoring and ICD/pacer evaluation.  Training in echocardiography, vascular imaging, cardiac CT, and nuclear imaging preferred.

Monument Health Heart & Vascular Institute is the area’s largest group of cardiovascular specialists:

Opportunity Highlights

• Sole group of cardiovascular specialists in western South Dakota
• Serves a five-state region with a catchment area of 428,000
• Newly constructed 4-story facility located on the campus of Monument Health’s Rapid City Hospital, a 417-bed Level II trauma center with $220 million of recent renovations
• 10 years of consecutive platinum performance achievement in the Chest Pain – MI Registry
• Expansive outreach program to surrounding communities with 7 established outreach sites
• Comprehensive EP program offering the full spectrum of treatment for electrical heart disease
• Dedicated Structural heart program offering transcatheter aortic valve replacement, left atrial appendage occlusion, PFO/ASD closure, MitraClip, and transcatheter mitral valve implantation
• Rapid City Hospital Cardiac Cath Lab performs diagnostic and interventional coronary angiograms, including complex coronary percutaneous coronary interventions and chronic total occlusions (CTOs), carotid angiograms/stenting, endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), embolizations, inferior vena cava (IVC) filter insertions and removals, venograms, IVC stenting and thrombolysis
• Annual volumes:
  • 650+ Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery
  • 2500+ Cath Lab Procedures
    • Including 250 Structural Heart Interventions
  • 1300+ EP Lab Procedures
    • 500+ Ablation
• 2 fully functional hybrid suits, 2 cath labs, 2 EP labs
• Comprehensive Cardiovascular Quality Assessment/Quality Improvement (GA/GI) Program with active registry participation. This includes participation in STS Adult Cardiac Surgery, NCDR CP/MI, NCDR Cath/PCI, NDCR Device Implant Registry, NDCR TVT, SVS Vascular Quality Initiative, AHA Get with the Guidelines A-Fib and NDCR LAAO registries
• Robust cardiovascular clinical research program currently enrolling in over 20 clinical trials
• Established heart failure clinic, cardiac rehab program, anticoagulation clinic, lipid, and lifestyle medicine programs
• Skilled team of over 20 dedicated advanced practitioners to assist with both inpatient and outpatient management of patients

Community Highlights

• Charming, family-friendly community with a population of 80,000
• Located in the foothills of South Dakota’s beautiful Black Hills mountain range
• Four-season outdoor paradise with hiking, biking, boating, camping, fishing, and hunting
• No state income tax
• Regional airport with convenient access to multiple hubs throughout the U.S.
• Excellent public and private schools

Incentive & Benefits

Cardiologists at Monument Health Heart and Vascular Institute (HVI) are experts in cardiac and thoracic surgery, congestive heart failure, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology and vascular medicine. When they aren't treating patients, our providers are conducting life-changing research studies. In 2017, HVI earned the distinguished three-star rating from The Society of Thoracic Surgeons for patient care and outcomes in coronary artery bypass grafting procedures. This rating places Monument Health among the most elite for heart bypass surgery in the United States and Canada.

Rapid City is a safe, family friendly, four-season community located in the foothills of the beautiful Black Hills. The area boasts a myriad of outdoor activities including hiking, camping, boating, fishing and hunting. There is also great travel access through Rapid City Regional Airport which offers nonstop flights to several major cities.