Cardiologist
Compensation
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- Employment & setting
- Contract
- Call expectations
- Includes call
- Weekends
- No weekends
Job Description
Job Overview
- Job Id: 103599
- Profession: Physician
- Specialty: Cardiology
- Job Type: Locum Tenens
- Location: Scranton, PA
- Service Setting: Inpatient
- Coverage Type: Clinical + Call
- Coverage Period: Nov 09, 2026 – Ongoing
- Shift Schedule: Mon-Fri; 8 hrs/day
- 1-2 weeks/month
- Call Schedule: Nights & Weekends
- Call Type: Beeper
- Call Ratio: 1:2
- Call Response Time: 30 minutes
- Callback %: 5
- Reason for Coverage: Supplemental
Patient Information
- Average Daily Volume: 15
- Rounding: Yes
- Phone Consults: 10
Facility Information
- Beds in the Dept: 80
- EMR System: Cerner
- Physician in Practice: Cardiac fellow
- Support Staff: 1 APPs
- Required to supervise APPs & Residents
Privileges & Compliance
Temporary Privileges Available: Yes
Required Procedures
- Required:
- Inpatient Cardiology: ICU
- Non-invasive: Echocardiography, TEE
Job Requirements
- Board: BC/BE
- Licenses: PA license or IMLC
- Certifications: BLS, ACLS, ABLS
Key Responsibilities
Provide inpatient cardiology care, including ICU coverage, echocardiography, transesophageal echocardiography, and patient rounding. Participate in night and weekend beeper call, respond within 30 minutes, handle phone consultations, and supervise APPs and residents.
Requirements
Candidates must be board-certified or board-eligible in cardiology and hold a Pennsylvania license or qualify through the IMLC. BLS, ACLS, and ABLS certifications are required, along with the ability to perform the listed inpatient cardiology procedures and supervise APPs and residents.
Qualifications
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Certifications
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Cardiologist at Adelphi Staffing a 7.2 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as very good. This places the position in the top 5% in Cardiology — ranked against 493 active Cardiology listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.
Cardiology — Physician Career Context
Of the 34 active Cardiology listings this role was benchmarked against, 3% are remote, 62% have no call, 24% require no weekends.
Cardiology pay on WeekdayDoc is up 16.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Listing-based score
Top 5% in Cardiology
- No weekends
- No nights
- Includes call
Living in Scranton
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $203k
- Typical market rent
- $1,354/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 19 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 93.6
- State income tax
- Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.