Physician - Urology

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, a large level II trauma center, is recruiting a new physician to join our Urology team in Great Falls, Montana, servicing a population of 275,000 patients across Northcentral Montana.

Position Information:

- Urology has 3.5 full time physicians (2 employed, 1.5 locum) offering sought after, efficient, safe patient care with a team of dedicated highly productive clinical office staff including a dedicated procedure nurse, surgery schedulers, and a clinical RN manager.

- Wide range of general bread and butter urology with opportunity to incorporate various specialized interests based on your desires (pediatrics, endourology, reconstructive urology, female urology with an emphasis on pelvic floor disorders, infertility, and oncology)

- Outpatient procedures are performed in our 2 large procedure rooms within clinic and inpatient surgical procedures are performed in our 10 main operating rooms, located within a 5-minute walk from the clinic (accessible via an enclosed skyway). We have two DaVinci Xi’s, many well-trained Robotic first-assistants and a dedicated Cysto Suite.

- Urologists collaborate with oncologists and radiation oncologists at our regional cancer center and participate in a monthly multidisciplinary Tumor Board. We have a strong internal referral base from over 340 Benefis Medical Group providers, and additional support and referral patterns from local and regional providers.

Work Hours and Call Coverage:

- Flexible schedule, general outpatient clinic hours M–F 8:00–5:00

- Call Schedule:  1:4, typically 1 weekday per week, 1 weekend per month. When on-call, the urologist will cover just one ER and will average one consult per day, and one case per weekend. Minimal call coverage allows the physician to enjoy all that Montana has to offer.

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

• 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

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

Salary : $5,000