Nurse Practitioner LVAD Coordinator

Why Join Us?

• Collaborative Team Culture: Thrive in a collegial environment that values teamwork, mutual support, and the delivery of exceptional, patient-centered care.
• Academic Growth & Mentorship: Work in a vibrant academic setting that fosters continuous learning, professional development, and leadership opportunities.
• Empowered Practice: Join a culture where APPs are respected, supported, and recognized as vital members of the care team—never an afterthought.

Role Highlights

• Support our growing LVAD outpatient program including initial post-hospital evaluation, ongoing management, troubleshooting alarms, and act as a liaison for patients and their multidisciplinary team.
• Conduct clinical visits for heart failure patients and support our heart failure physicians’ outpatient practice needs.
• Maintain meticulous and timely documentation in compliance with institutional and regulatory standards.
• Assist with data collection for INTERMACS (Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support).
• Participate in biennial Joint Commission surveys and attend weekly multidisciplinary team meeting.
• Manage a cohort of patients with CardioMEMS pulmonary pressure sensor.
• Assist with patient telephone messages and anticoagulation management.
• Serve as an educational resource for patients, families, and interdisciplinary staff.

What We're Looking For

• Board certified Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant who possesses an applicable New York State license.
• Experience in general cardiology, heart failure and LVAD is preferred. Will consider exceptional candidates without LVAD experience.
• Must possess excellent communication skills and demonstrate an ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Candidates with active BLS/ACLS certifications.

About Us

WMCHealth is a 1,900-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on seven campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2, and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region's only acute care children's hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, a state-of-the-art Telemedicine program, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley.