Responsible for performing diagnostic echocardiogram exams using a variety of
ultrasound equipment. Exams are performed in a professional manner demonstrating
technical accuracy and cognitive sonographic skills to identify and record appropriate
anatomical, pathological, and diagnostic images. Reports critical findings to reading
physician for interpretation when indicated. Assists with the collection and analysis of
data for accreditation and quality improvement purposes. Maintains ultrasound
equipment and work areas. Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements
Graduate from CAAHEP accredited ultrasound program
Registered Adult Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS), and/or Registered Cardiac Sonographer (CCI)
Registered in Adult Echocardiography
BLS upon hire or within 3 most post-hire
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
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