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:

• 9 Non-interventional Cardiologists
• 5 Interventional Cardiologists
• 2 Electrophysiologists
• 2 Cardiothoracic Surgeons

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:

o    650+ Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery

o    2500+ Cath Lab Procedures

§  Including 250 Structural Heart Interventions

o    1300+ EP Lab Procedures

§  500+ Ablation

• 2 fully functional hybrid suits, 2 cath labs, 2 EP labs
• Comprehensive Cardiovascular uality Assessment/uality Improvement (GA/GI) Program with active registry participation. This includes participation in STS Adult Cardiac Surgery, NCDR CP/MI, NCDR Cath/PCI, NCDR Device Implant Registry, NCDR TVT, SVS Vascular uality Initiative, AHA Get with the Guidelines A-Fib and NCDR 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