Physician – Maternal Fetal Medicine

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 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 is seeking an outpatient consultative MFM subspecialist to support our obstetrical team practicing at our large regional health system in Great Falls, Montana, with a catchment area of 275,000. Montana’s state population is just over 1 million people, and nearly a quarter of the population is covered by Benefis Health System. We proudly serve a 15-county area across central Montana, and our specialists travel the region and use telemedicine to provide hometown service to our rural patients.

Clinic Details

• Outpatient practice is located in a brand-new standalone Women’s and Children’s Center dedicated to full spectrum women’s and children’s care including obstetric, gynecology, urogynecology, maternal-fetal medicine, fertility testing and services, an office midwife program, and mammography
• Patient care spaces feature private reception area, welcoming exam rooms, 2 dedicated ultrasound rooms and large procedure rooms, in addition to mammogram and DEXA scan services in the building.
• Current Women’s Health team: 4 OB/GYNs, 1 MFM, 1 Urogynecologist, 1 office-based midwife, 3 nurse practitioners, 2 RDMS sonographers with fetal echo certification and genetic counselor. We also have Pediatric Cardiology in the community.
• Great clinical and support staff to provide patient care and consistent follow up.
• Patient offerings include: donor breast milk programs, comprehensive childbirth classes, Meadowlark Initiative perinatal services, safe sleep for infants and more.

Labor and Delivery/NICU

• Level II maternal center with 1500+ deliveries per year – our practice averages about 675 deliveries annually
• Our level III NICU is staffed with neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, nursing, and respiratory therapists able to care for 23 weeks gestation and above.
• Labor and Delivery is located across the street from the outpatient practice and has 19 LDRP rooms, 5 high risk antepartum rooms, and 2 operating rooms with 24/7 in house CRNAs on the unit, a 3-bed triage area, and a dedicated call room if needed    

• Pediatric hospitalists are available 24/7 for newborn rounds and cares   

• Dedicated in-house Mercy Flight (helicopter and fixed-wing air transport) with maternal and neonatal transfer teams for regional transfers across 15+ rural counties

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
• J1 waiver sponsorships for specific specialties with established immigration council

Why we stand out

• Epic electronic medical record and good clinical support staffing structures
• Stand alone, financially stable, not-for-profit health system led by a CEO with a 20+ year tenure
• Over 460 employed physicians and advanced practice 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
• Native American programs designed to ensure patients and their families receive care that is culturally sensitive, respectful, and supportive of their unique needs and traditions.
• International airport with direct flights to: DEN, SLC, SEA, ORD, LAS and PHX

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

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