Physician - Critical Care Pulmonologist – live where you vacation!

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 currently recruiting a Critical Care physician with training in both critical care and pulmonology to join our inpatient team.  

Position details: 

• The ideal candidate will have a desire to work in an intensive care unit.  The candidate will provide inpatient pulmonary consultation and support when on service with bronchoscopy procedures including EBUS and Super Dimension navigational bronchoscopy if desired.   

• 21-bed ICU with dual physician coverage during day shifts and nurse practitioners covering most night shifts.  

• Full time is approximately 168 shifts per year – working a mix of 10- and 12- hour days 

• Robust department resources include dedicated pharmacist, respiratory therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech therapy, dietary, chaplaincy, care coordination, clinical nurse leadership and more.  

• Consulting physicians include CT surgery, interventional cardiology, neurosurgery, neurology, inpatient gastroenterology, infectious disease, general surgery, interventional radiology, nephrology and palliative care.  

• The department currently employs 5 critical care physicians and 2 critical care nurse practitioners in addition to outpatient pulmonologists.  

• The candidate will be responsible for teaching medical residents and medical students. 

• Opportunity for outpatient clinic if desired 

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 shift-based compensation structures with additional performance bonuses 

• 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  

• J1 waiver sponsorships for specific specialties with established immigration council  

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  https://www.benefis.org  for more information 

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