Located one block from Wyoming Medical Center, the WCPS office provides a comprehensive suite of in-office procedures, ensuring that you have everything needed for optimal patient care. With our accredited nuclear medicine and echo/ultrasound systems, and support from a professional team of APPs who assist with patient follow-ups and inpatient care, you are well-equipped to build a successful EP practice. There are 10 outreach clinics that service two-thirds of the state. The EMR used at the clinic is Allscripts and the EMR used at the hospital is Cerner.
The office is open Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm. This position can expect to see 20-25 patients per day in clinic and do a wide variety of procedures in the office including Echo, Nuclear, Event Monitor, Holter monitor, device checks, ECGs according to their level of comfort.
This position is going to be very autonomous and will allow the incoming physician to make their own schedule and be in control of their practice. They have seen certain schedules work better than others and would suggest starting in the hospital and round on patients in the morning and finish in the office seeing patients in the afternoon. However, if there is a different way the physician wants to organize their schedule they are completely open to that idea and welcome new ideas.
There will be a ramp up period of about 6-months until this is a 100% EP position. The beginning stages of the practice are going to be on the lighter side while the provider is integrated into the community and builds a patient panel. Having the flexibility to offer some general cardiology services while ramping up will assist with referrals as this is a smaller community and word of mouth travels quickly. Providing any additional cardiology services will also help the salary of the provider during the first year as they build up their EP patient/services.
During the first 6-months the provider will still provide all EP services and perform procedures weekly in the EP lab. They have not had a full-time Electrophysiologist on staff to provide an accurate representation of what someone full-time would be able to provide. However, they had a retired physician come back to work a few times a month to provide EP services and he seeing around 30-40 patients per month. In 2022 working an abbreviated schedule coming in only 2 times per month, he was able to put in 83 pacemakers and 46 defibrillators.
They have estimated that the incoming provider will be able to do at least 2 ablations per week and put in a few devices per month. But as the provider builds their practice those numbers will only increase. This practice has also had other EP physicians visit their facility and tell them they have the volumes to support someone full-time and advised to tap into the amount of diseased population Casper has.
There will be a small amount of outreach that will be done which will require traveling out of town about once a month. This will be for an arrhythmia clinic in a different community that can monitor rhythm disturbances and such to those who don’t normally have access to this type of care.
There will be no required call component of this position. But they are most definitely looking for a team player that would be willing to help here and there. Every couple of months if one of their providers is on vacation or out sick, they would greatly appreciate the assistance from the EP. Again, this is not a requirement but seeing more general cardiology patients every once and a while may end up coming back to you when they need an EP physician, or they may have a friend that can be referred to you int eh future.
You will have the privilege to work alongside four, wonderful APPs: Chelsea, Stephanie, Rachel, and Arianne. We had the opportunity to meet them personally and they are sharp. They work independently but are true extenders of the group. Their role is to provide follow up and support for the cardiologists. They do not have their own patients, but they do have practice autonomy. The cardiologists trust them. They will often field most of the phone calls from the nurses. They monitor nuclear tests, see patients in clinic, do telemedicine, help on inpatient rounds, and supervise stress tests, handle hospital discharges, among other duties. The APPs also work on Saturday and Sunday from 8am-Noon helping with discharges, rounding and stress tests.