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Carle Health
Cardiovascular Surgery (First Assist) - Advanced Practice Provider
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What they do
A Surgical Physician Assistant provides medical care to patients, under the supervision of a physician or surgeon. Works in surgical operating rooms and surgery departments, and is licensed to practice medicine but has less formal certification than a physician. Performs duties delegated by a physician such as recording patient medical histories, ordering diagnostic tests, or giving immunizations.
$118,070 / year median in Illinois
+12% projected growth
Job Description
Overview Carle Health is seeking an additional CV Surgery 1st Assist Advanced Practice Provider to join our established team in Urbana, Illinois. Opportunity Details Join a team of five Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgeons and four Advanced Practice Providers. M-F with possible weekend call and holidays. Practice scope includes adult cardiothoracic surgery
- CABG, valve surgery, TAVR
- as well as major / minor vascular surgery including EVAR and open aneurysm repair, carotid endarterectomy, etc. Opportunity to develop sub practice based on clinical interests. Comprehensive practice that includes surgery, clinic, and hospital rounding, allowing 1st Assist APP to practice full scope. Experienced Advanced Practice Providers in Cardiovascular Surgery is preferred
- including surgical first-assisting, Endoscopic Vein Harvest (EVH), and perioperative patient care
- but will consider other surgically-trained APPs who want to experience the professional satisfaction of cardiothoracic and vascular surgery.
Carle Heart and Vascular Institute:
The Carle Heart & Vascular Institute (Carle HVI) is an integrated organizational entity with structural and functional integration of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and Interventional Radiology. Healthgrades recently recognized Carle Foundation Hospital as Top 10% in the nation for cardiac surgery and best in the region for cardiac care and cardiac surgery in addition to Five-Star Distinctions in Coronary Intervention Procedures, Treatment of Heart Attack, and Treatment of Heart Failure. The Carle Health Cardiology providers, 40 physicians and 21 Advanced Nurse practitioners and physician assistants, deliver cardiac and vascular services to over 40,000 patients every year throughout Illinois and Indiana. About Our Community Globally connected, innovative and culturally rich, Champaign-Urbana is centrally located to Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis and is home to one of the world's great public research universities- the Big Ten University of Illinois.
- $85.