Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Physician Assistant / Associate Job with Benefis Health System in Great Falls, MT

APP - Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery - Montana

The Heart & Vascular Institute at Benefis Health System in Great Falls, Montana is seeking an experienced Cardiothoracic and Vascular APP to join our hospital employed group.

Position Description

• A typical week includes 3-4 operative days (OR and hybrid lab) and ½ to 1 full day of clinic weekly.
• Dedicated time in OR with our 2 CVT Surgeons
• First assist duties.
• Vessel harvesting - open/bridging and endoscopic as well as tissue handling for vascular structures and wire skills in addition to openings and closures.
• Removal of medical devices: chest tubes, Swan-Ganz catheters, pacemaker wires, drains, intra-aortic balloon pumps
• Some common vascular surgeries include EVAR, TVAR, peripheral artery endarterectomy-carotid, iliac, femoral, peripheral artery bypasses, and AV fistula creation.
• Currently, approx. 100 hearts annually with opportunity to grow.
• Hospital and emergency department consults and inpatient rounding including ICU and step down.
• Outpatient clinic as assigned – pre and post-op care
• Call goal is 1:4
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Cardiovascular/thoracic surgical experience required
• Experience in open and endoscopic vein harvesting
• Ability to be autonomous in OR when required.
  
  

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 compensation structures with guaranteed salaries productivity and performance bonuses
• 33 days paid time off (28 days PTO, 5 days CME)
• Relocation assistance
• Annual $5,000 CME $1,000 license/dues
• 5-7% retirement match
• Paid malpractice tail
• 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
  
  

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.