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Location
Atrium Health Pineville
10650 Park Rd Suite 220
Pineville, North Carolina
Care Delivery Brand
Atrium Health

Description & Requirements

If it’s possible, you will find it at Atrium Health—the leading community-focused academic healthcare system serving North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. We invite providers to discover all that we can do when we bring healing hearts, inquisitive minds, and visionaries together.

Atrium Health’s Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute, part of Atrium Health, is currently seeking a Heart Failure & Transplant Physician to join their established practice in Charlotte, NC. We provide care to patients across 6 locations. Our team includes 11 advanced heart failure cardiologists, 4 transplant/MCS surgeons, 18 APPs, 3 clinical pharmacists, 4 social workers, 6 transplant/VAD coordinators, 5 nurse navigators, 9 heart failure nurses, and various other clerical support staff
Highlights
Opportunity Highlights: 

  • Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute offers over 35 years of heart transplant experience and the region’s only heart transplant center, with outcomes that rank among the best in the nation.
  • Advanced treatment options include LVADs and the total artificial heart; additional surgical and minimally invasive options including bypass surgery, heart valve surgery, and implantable heart devices.
  • The practice is a strong, multidisciplinary team which provides comprehensive patient care with excellent outcomes for the transplant and VAD patients.
  • Top 15 center for Heart Transplant volume in the country with robust durable LVAD program 
  • Inpatient, outpatient, virtual care, and cath lab 
  • Some of the best survival rates in the nation and the first center in the Carolinas to transplant a total artificial heart.
  • Robust clinical research program with opportunities to participate. Abstracts and publications are encouraged.
Training and/or Experience Required
  • Board Eligible/Board Certified in Advance Heart Failure/Transplant.
  • Eager to work in a growing, high-volume practice.
  • Interested in both outpatient and inpatient care (12 outpatients/day and 25-40 inpatient/day)
  • Primary Transplant weeknight and weekend call is approximately 1:6. Minimal general call responsibility with APP as front line.
  • Optional: Able to perform right heart catheterizations and RV biopsies. Interest in Cardiovascular Critical Care.
Benefits
• Paid Time Off programs available for eligible positions
• Comprehensive health and welfare benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage
• Retirement benefits, including 401(k) options with employer contributions and access to financial wellness resources
• Flexible spending accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family support benefits, which may include parental leave, adoption assistance, and surrogacy support
• Educational assistance and professional development programs
• Paid medical liability insurance 
• Continuing Medical Education (CME) allowances
• Relocation assistance

About Pineville, North Carolina
Located in southern Mecklenburg County just minutes from Charlotte, Pineville blends small-town charm with big-city convenience. Known as North Carolina’s largest shopping district, it offers a vibrant mix of retail, dining, and recreation while maintaining a peaceful, community-oriented atmosphere. Outdoor enthusiasts enjoy Pineville Lake Park and local festivals like Fall Fest and Arts in the Park. Pineville is a place where healthcare professionals can thrive personally and professionally.

About Advocate Health

Advocate Health is one of the largest nonprofit integrated health systems in the United States, providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois, Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama, and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin. With Wake Forest University School of Medicine as our academic core, we are shaping the future of health care through innovation, research, education and compassionate care.

When you join Advocate Health, you’re joining a team that’s committed to being a Best Place to Care—where clinicians are heard, supported and empowered to focus on what matters most: caring for patients. This enterprise-wide initiative is grounded in listening to care teams, removing barriers to excellent care, and fostering well-being and connection. It reflects our purpose—from discovery to everyday moments, we’re redefining care - for you, for us, for all—and lives through our values: lifting each other up, leading with purpose, thinking boldly together and embracing change with optimism. Here, you’ll find not just a job, but a career with meaning, growth and impact—for all.

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