Description

Benefis is one of Montana's largest and premier health systems, and we are committed to providing excellent care for all, healing body, mind, and spirit. At Benefis, we work hard to support our employees in every aspect of their careers by offering outstanding benefits and compensation, state-of-the-art facilities, and multiple growth opportunities. The only thing missing is you!

Benefis Health System, in Great Falls, Montana, is seeking an outpatient Pediatrician to join our team practicing at our large regional health system.

Practice Details:

• Opportunity to work in a beautiful Women's and Children's Center dedicated to full spectrum women's and children's care including general pediatrics, pediatric behavioral health, pediatric therapies (PT, OT and speech), obstetrics, gynecology, maternal-fetal medicine, fertility services, lab and x-ray.

• Current pediatric team at this main location has 4 pediatricians and 1 pediatric nurse practitioner, in addition to 1 pediatrician and 1 pediatric nurse practitioner working in a separate satellite clinic in our community.

• The outpatient pediatric department also has an integrated psychologist and care coordinator to provide on-demand embedded behavioral health support to pediatric providers throughout the clinic day, in addition to two child/adolescent psychiatrists, a general psychologist, a neuropsychologist, and a care coordinator on the same floor in pediatric behavioral health.

• Patient care spaces feature fun, family friendly waiting rooms and welcoming exam rooms with themes and art designed by local high school art students

• Classes and programs offered include breast milk donation programs, childbirth classes, sibling classes, Meadowlark Initiative perinatal services, safe sleep for infants and more.

Schedule Details:

• Outpatient clinic is open and staffed Monday - Friday from 8:00 - 5:00 pm, full time providers typically work 4 days/week.

• 1:1 nursing ratio to provider on most days in addition to medical assistants and clinical nurse assistants

• Call is 1:8 weeks taken from home averaging 0-4 after hour calls per week (pediatric hospitalists cover urgent care, emergency department, hospital, and community calls)

Inpatient Unit Resources: Pediatrics/Labor and Delivery/NICU

• Inpatient services are covered by a dedicated pediatric hospitalist team of 2 physicians and 2 pediatric nurse practitioners available 24/7 for newborn rounds, cares and pediatric admissions to our 16 bed inpatient pediatric unit.

• The Labor and Delivery unit has 19 labor and delivery rooms, 5 high risk antepartum rooms, 2 operating rooms and a 3 bed triage area

• Our level III NICU delivers 24+ weeks and is staffed with neonatologists and neonatal nurse practitioners, neonatal RNs and respiratory therapists

• Dedicated Pediatric and NICU specific Mercy Flight transfer teams for regional transfers

Why we stand out

• Stand alone, financially stable, not-for-profit health system led by a CEO with a 20+ year tenure

• Over 400 employed providers on medical staff

• Regional tertiary center with robust specialty support including neurosurgery, pulmonology, neurology, endocrinology, rheumatology, advanced gastroenterology, cardiothoracic, and more!

• Patient focused, quality community and regional medical care

• Epic electronic medical record and good clinical support staffing structures

How we support you

• Nationally competitive compensation structures with guaranteed salaries + productivity and performance bonuses

• 8 weeks paid time off (6 PTO, 2 CME)

• Generous sign-on / relocation bonus

• Annual $5,000 CME + $1,000 license/dues

• 5-7% retirement match + 457b program

• Paid malpractice + tail

• Physician wellness programs focused on personal and professional development

• Monthly meetings with highest-level physician and administrative leadership to bring ideas forward and solve issues

Community Information: Great Falls is known as Montana's base camp for art and adventure with a city population of 70,000, and a draw of over 275,000 people in north central Montana. We have four genuine seasons, experience mild winters and enjoy blue skies over 300 days per year. Great Falls is a wonderful and safe place to raise a family, with nationally ranked public schools, endless activities, two accredited colleges, a brand-new nursing school, a biomedical rural health research institute, and a new not-for-profit medical school, TouroCOM Montana. Additionally, the Missouri River, a blue-ribbon fly-fishing destination, runs through the middle of our community with over 60 miles of paved recreational trails. Our local outdoor activities include camping, backpacking, hiking, biking, horseback riding, water and snow skiing, rock and ice climbing, boating, paddle boarding, kayaking, off-road motor sports, and hunting making our quality of life unrivaled in the Rocky Mountain West. Additionally, in 2023, Montana was named #1 state in the nation to practice medicine by WalletHub and in 2020, Great Falls ranked #10 for best cities to practice in after the pandemic by Business Insider.

Benefis Health System is one of Montana's largest tertiary centers holding a level II trauma designation. We are proud to be a standalone, financially stable community health system with strong, dedicated leadership focused on providing the best patient care in Montana, in addition to being awarded Becker's "Best Places To Work in Healthcare" for 7 years. Benefis covers ¼ of the state's land mass, an area comparable in size to Kansas and can provide advanced care for everything except for burns and organ transplants. We offer great specialty support including neurosurgery, cardiothoracic and vascular, advanced gastroenterology, a regional cancer institute and a state-of-the-art emergency trauma department with a dedicated air ambulance program, including fixed and rotor wing.

Visit our website www.benefis.org for more information

Submit your CV today to learn more, EricaMartin@benefis.org or ProviderCareers@benefis.org