Position Overview

Understanding the Role

Portneuf Medical Center is recruiting a general cardiologist for its outpatient practice in Pocatello, Idaho. This is a clinic-based role within an established, hospital-employed cardiology group that operates as the regional referral center for southeastern Idaho. The position adds outpatient capacity to a team that combines general, interventional, and electrophysiology cardiology under one roof, with strong open-heart and procedural support.

The group serves a catchment area of roughly 300,000 people. Pocatello and neighboring Chubbuck total about 80,000 to 85,000 residents, and Portneuf is the only hospital in the immediate area. The practice also runs outreach clinics at several critical access hospitals in surrounding communities, which feeds a steady volume of cardiac cases back to the main campus.

Role Focus

This is a general cardiology position weighted toward outpatient clinic work. The incoming physician sees patients in the cardiology clinic on the main Portneuf campus, with the clinic and hospital connected through the attached medical office building.

• Primarily outpatient general cardiology
• Inpatient rounding handled on a rotating basis by the group, not layered on top of clinic weeks
• Cardiology functions as a consulting service line; the hospitalist team manages admissions
• A fully outpatient arrangement can be accommodated for the right candidate

Practice Snapshot

Setting: Hospital employed, outpatient clinic

Clinic Schedule: 4 days per week, 10-hour days (4x10s)

Patient Target: 18 patients per day

Call: Roughly one week in four to five

EMR: Epic

APP Support: One-to-one provider-to-APP model, some providers at two-to-one

Schedule

The clinic runs a four-day week built on 10-hour days. Day options are flexible, with Monday through Thursday or Tuesday through Friday both available, and the group is open to discussing alternative arrangements for a strong candidate. The daily target for a physician is 18 patients, supported by APPs who handle follow-up visits so the physician can focus on new patients and higher-complexity care.

Qualifications

• Board certified or board eligible in Cardiovascular Disease
• Comfort with a general cardiology outpatient practice
• Interest in an outdoor-oriented, community-rooted lifestyle, which the group views as central to long-term fit

New Position Context

The group is solid and long-tenured but has carried a near-constant recruiting need as providers retire or relocate. The team's projections call for additional general cardiologists to support its interventional and EP volume. Leadership is flexible on schedule structure and outpatient-inpatient mix to land the right long-term physician.

Reporting and Leadership

The physician joins the cardiology service line, which currently operates under an interim medical director.