Physician - Cardiology

Practice Overview Practice has existed since 1989. New building (13,000 sq ft) opened in October 08

Onsite echo, stress echo, nuclear camera, holter & event monitoring, EKG, PT & ABI

Weekday call (1:2) for clinic; Weekend call (1:3) shared with another cardiologist

Average daily patient volumes vary from 20 45 patients per day per doc

Reason for recruitment

Current partners are looking for a 3rd partner to assist with high patient volumes

All Danville cardiologists (6) have high patient volumes; market dictates a need for (8)

Southern Virginia (incl. Danville) has one of the highest U.S. rates of cardiovascular disease

Our Regional will be designated as a primary PCI center as of May 09

All area STEMI patients will come to our Regional for their caths as of May 09

Newly signed Duke University-our Regional agreement provides Duke open heart & vascular surgery support until 2018.

Duke & DRMC implementing new standards of care initiatives & cardiac support

Accepts J1s: No