Chief of Cardiology

Essen Medical Associates•Bronx, NY

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Essen Health Care is seeking an experienced, board-certified cardiologist to serve as Chief of Cardiology. This physician leader will oversee the clinical quality, operational performance, provider development, and strategic growth of cardiology services while maintaining an active clinical practice. The Chief will guide accessible, coordinated, evidence-based cardiovascular care across applicable clinical settings and collaborate closely with primary care, other specialties, clinical operations, and executive leadership to improve access, referral coordination, and continuity of care for patients with complex medical and social needs. The position combines direct patient care with dedicated administrative leadership responsibilities. Travel between Essen locations may be required based on department needs. The clinical schedule, administrative allocation, and any call responsibilities will be established before hire.

Requirements

Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) from an accredited institution.
Completion of an accredited residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease.
Current board certification in Cardiovascular Disease through an appropriate recognized certifying board.
Active, unrestricted New York State medical license, or eligibility to obtain one before the start date.
Current DEA registration, as required for assigned clinical responsibilities.
Eligibility for credentialing, payer enrollment, and applicable clinical privileges.
Significant cardiology practice experience and demonstrated success in a physician leadership, medical director, division chief, or comparable role.
Experience leading clinical teams, developing care standards, and implementing quality improvement initiatives.
Strong understanding of outpatient cardiology operations, diagnostic services, and multidisciplinary care coordination.
Ability to interpret clinical and operational data and translate findings into practical improvements.
Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
Commitment to equitable, culturally responsive care for diverse patient populations.
Sound evidence-based clinical judgment; accountability; collaboration; strategic planning; team development; operational effectiveness; and patient-centered leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading cardiology services across multiple outpatient locations.
Experience caring for underserved populations and patients with complex chronic conditions.
Additional training or certification in echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, cardiac CT, or other relevant areas.
Experience developing cardiovascular prevention, heart failure, or other disease-management programs.
Familiarity with population health, value-based care, and strategies to improve care transitions.
Experience recruiting, mentoring, and retaining physicians and advanced practice providers.
Spanish language proficiency or experience working effectively with interpreter services.

Responsibilities

Provide overall clinical direction for cardiology services and establish consistent standards for evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and documentation.
Maintain an active clinical practice, providing cardiovascular consultations and managing acute and chronic cardiac conditions.
Promote cardiovascular prevention, early disease identification, evidence-based risk-factor management, and shared decision-making tailored to patient needs and barriers to care.
Establish clinical pathways, ensure timely communication and escalation of urgent findings, and define the appropriate scope of services at each cardiology location.
Develop and implement a cardiology service plan aligned with organizational priorities; assess demand, referrals, access, capacity, and service gaps.
Partner with executive and operational leaders to evaluate new locations, expanded services, diagnostic capabilities, staffing, equipment, workflows, and quality measures.
Set annual department goals and monitor performance while supporting sustainable growth, quality, appropriate utilization, and timely access.
Lead, mentor, and evaluate cardiologists and other assigned clinical team members; set expectations for performance, patient experience, conduct, documentation, and collaboration.
Partner with Talent Acquisition and leadership on staffing needs, recruitment, candidate evaluation, retention, onboarding, and provider development.
Conduct department meetings, case discussions, and individual performance reviews; address concerns through coaching and corrective action in collaboration with appropriate leaders.
Provide clinical oversight of approved cardiology diagnostic services, establishing standards for test ordering, preparation, quality, interpretation, reporting, and communication of results.
Oversee applicable diagnostic services, which may include electrocardiography, ambulatory rhythm monitoring, echocardiography, vascular studies, stress testing, and advanced imaging where offered and appropriately staffed.
Ensure interpreting physicians have appropriate credentials and privileges; monitor turnaround times, incomplete studies, repeat testing, abnormal-result follow-up, staff competency, equipment, maintenance, and applicable accreditation requirements.
Establish quality review processes and resolve discrepancies in diagnostic interpretations.
Strengthen coordination between cardiology, primary care, other specialties, care coordination teams, hospitals, and external specialists.
Establish referral criteria and triage for routine, expedited, and urgent needs; improve communication with referring providers and close referral and testing loops.
Support appointment completion, medication adherence, diagnostic follow-up, continuity of care, and transitions after emergency department visits and hospital discharges.
Lead cardiology quality improvement and monitor adherence to evidence-based guidelines and measures for outcomes, access, diagnostic quality, patient experience, and safety.
Participate in peer review, chart audits, case reviews, and patient safety investigations; identify patterns and implement corrective improvements.
Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, organizational policies, professional standards, credentialing requirements, documentation practices, billing requirements, and patient confidentiality standards.
Partner with operations to optimize schedules, appointment templates, staffing, room utilization, diagnostic capacity, wait times, referral backlogs, cancellations, and no-shows.
Establish reasonable productivity expectations; participate in budgeting, staffing plans, and capital investment reviews; review utilization, expenses, and revenue cycle trends with finance and operations.
Support appropriate resource use and recommend workflow and technology improvements that reduce delays, duplication, and inefficiencies.
Performance will be assessed against agreed-upon department goals, potentially including access, referral and testing completion, clinical quality and safety, diagnostic report quality and turnaround, patient and referring-provider experience, provider recruitment and development, documentation, productivity, resource use, budget performance, and progress on service development and quality improvement.