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Benefis Health System, a large trauma center in Great Falls, Montana, has a rare opening for an Emergency Medicine Physician to join our team of board-certified physicians and emergency trained advanced practice providers.

Department Information

• 33 bed beautiful Emergency Department with recent $12m complete remodel
• 9 bed RME Unit
• 11 bed Critical Care Unit
• 13 bed Clinical Decision Unit
• High acuity department with 30-35% admission rate
• Large air ambulance program - fixed wing jet and helicopter completing 3-4 missions a day, 900-1100 flights annually – flight team is based in ED (Adult, OB and NICU specific flight teams on call)
• 10 hour shifts, approximately 14 shifts per month
• Great staffing model to promote dedicated, safe patient care – currently staffed with 50 hours of physician coverage daily with APCs and hiring to expand to dual physician coverage 24 hours per day
• Ample opportunities to participate in medical student and postgraduate medical education
• Innovative technology throughout department including:
• IV pumps programed by chars
• Bedside ultrasound in all trauma bays
• CT, x-ray and ultrasound live in ED footprint
• 2 way radio real time communication
• Tele-stroke, tele-neuro services
• Dedicated ED communication center for all transports/external transfers
• Extremely low turnover, our first posted physician opening in over 7 years due to changes in staffing model
• Physicians must hold a board certification through ABEM for hospital credentialing

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.