The Cardiac and Aortic Surgery Program at Baptist Health Louisville is a regionally recognized and thriving surgical service with 4 cardiac surgeons and a team of 10 NP and PAs performing annually over 650 cardiac and thoracic aortic cases, serving the Louisville metropolitan area and Kentuckiana region. Baptist Health Louisville is a tertiary 613 bed hospital that has 3 other ICUs, 2 large surgical recovery rooms and 25 operating rooms. The new state of the art ICU is designed to support the growing demand of cardiac surgical, structural and temporary circulatory support cases. The unit will have 13 universal beds (including 5 flexible open heart recovery beds) in proximity with the 3 CV operating rooms, the 5 cath labs and the 2 CV transitional units.

The job delineation includes the management of cardiac surgical cases from early care till transition to step down CV units, structural heart patients requiring short term care, complex surgical patients requiring longer stays and few ECMO, Impella or complex structural cases.

The Dedicated Cardiac surgery ICU team will include 2 full or part time day ICU physicians and 2 night shift nurse practitioners. The candidate should be able to work collaboratively with the CV surgeons and extended team and specialists.

About Baptist Cardiac surgery:

Baptist cardiac surgery is the largest cardiac surgery group in Kentucky and southern Indiana region. The group performs over 1000 cases in 2 Baptist hospitals and is the only group in the area ranked with 3 star STS surgical recognition in more than 2 categories. It includes 4 cardiac and thoracic aorta surgeons performing all aspects of cardiac surgery except VADS and transplants. They are known for performing the full array of cardiac surgery including all aspects of coronary revascularization, mitral valve repair, complex valve surgery and reoperation, aortic reconstructions and homografts, Ross procedures, pulmonary thromboendarterectomies, aortic thoracic open and endovascular procedures and arrythmia surgery.

Candidate requirements:

. BE/BC in critical care, anesthesia or surgery/CT

. Anesthesiologist experienced in the management of cardiac surgery patients

. Proven leadership and organizational skills involving CV ICU patient care

. Ability to organize the new cardiac surgery ICU team, protocols, daily management, goals and interactions with present team of surgeons and specialists