**Description** **Specialization:** Acute Care **Job Summary:** HCA Houston Healthcare West is seeking to recruit a cardiology focused Nurse Practitioner (NP) for employment to to join a busy cardiology service line based on the west side of Houston, Texas. + **Qualified Candidates:** Acute care NP with cardiology training and experience is strongly preferred. + Must be able to obtain or maintain an active Texas medical license. + Ability to communicate cardiac plans with primary team. + Inpatient Only + **Incentive/Benefits Package:** Competitive salary + Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, and disability, 401k with match, PTO, and more + CME allowance + Malpractice coverage + No state income tax **About HCA Houston Healthcare West:** HCA Houston Healthcare West has been offering exceptional care to the West Houston community for over 30 years. With more than 1,200 members on our care team and 400 of the region’s most talented doctors, we are able to provide nationally recognized quality care. Since our founding, we have consistently enhanced key services and we continue to grow. + 276-bed acute care, community based + OBGYN Residency Program + The Heart Hospital at West Houston + Primary Stroke Center + 16 bed IMCU + Level II NICU + 24/7 on-site Neonatologists + OB Hospitalist Program 24/7 + The Solis Mammography + 24/7 on-site Anesthesiologists + Deliver >2,500 babies/year **Community Information:** This desirable community is located just twenty miles west of Houston adjacent to the I-10 corridor. As the nation's fourth-largest city and the most diverse city in America, Houston has a lot to offer, including professional sports teams, the theater and museum districts, hundreds of clubs and live music venues. With its gigantic Galleria and more, Houston is a shopper's paradise. Houston's sunny climate makes it easy to enjoy the municipal parks, jogging paths, and bike trails. Piney woods, area lakes, Galveston Bay, and sunny Gulf Coast beaches are all less than an hour away. Families will appreciate the excellence of the area's public and private schools and availability of institutions of higher learning. Texas is a tort-reform state with no state income tax, making it an exceptional place to live and work.