Emergency Medicine Opening in Great Falls, MT
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Job Summary
Occupation
Physician
Specialty
Emergency Medicine
Degree Required
MD/DO
Position Type
Full-Time
Work Environment
Hospital
Clinic/Private Practice
Location
Great Falls, Montana, United States
Visa Sponsorship
No
Job Description
Last Update:
12/17/24
**Emergency Medicine opening in Great Falls, MT**
- Located 90 miles from Helena and 160 miles from Missoula
- 275,000 person service area
**Benefits Details**
- Guaranteed shift based compensation with incentive bonus structures
- Annual $5,000 CME + $1,000 license/dues
- 5-7% retirement match + 457b program
- Provider wellness programs focused on personal and professional development
- Monthly meetings with highest-level physician and administrative leadership to bring ideas forward and solve issues
**Position Details**
- 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
**Facility Details**
- Stand alone, financially stable, not-for-profit health system
- Regional tertiary center with robust specialty support including neurosurgery, pulmonology, neurology, endocrinology, rheumatology, advanced gastroenterology, cardiothoracic, hospital medicine, regional cancer institute and more!
- Patient focused, quality medical care
**Community Details**
Great Falls is known as Montanas base camp for art and adventure with a city population of 60,000, 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, two accredited colleges, and a new not-for-profit medical school, TouroCOM Montana, opening Summer 2023. 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, hiking, 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.