Description
Benefis Health System, in Great Falls, Montana, is seeking a Neurosurgeon to join our team while we focus on succession planning to maintain excellent future neurosurgery programs at our regional trauma center. We currently employ 2 neurosurgeons, one retiring early 2025, in addition to a private practice neurosurgeon and per-diem neurosurgeons who participate in the call schedule.
Hospital Information
- Cover only 1 hospital with 10 state-of-the-art operating rooms and DaVinci robotics
- Largest Emergency Department in the state of Montana – 33 beds
- Hospital air ambulance program – fixed wing jet and helicopter, completing over 1,100 flights annually
- Modern hospital floors including a 21 bed ICU with 24/7 Critical Care physician coverage, an Ortho-Neuro Wellness Unit and a robust hospitalist program
- Inpatient rehab unit with acute inpatient physiatry consults and beds devoted to TBI patients who participate in an established comprehensive program including outpatient therapies.
Practice Information
- Clinic is located within a 5-minute walk of the operating room and inpatient hospital floors and can be accessed by a skybridge
- Clinic hours are typically M-F, 8:00 – 5:00 pm, flexibility in schedule
- Excellent support staff including: RNs, CMAs, CNAs, and schedulers
- Call schedule is guaranteed 1:4
- Work in a medical group employing over 340 providers
Why we stand out
- 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, and more!
- Patient focused, quality community and regional medical care
- International airport with direct flights to: DEN, MSP, SLC, SEA, ORD, LAS and PHX
How we support you
- Guaranteed compensation with production and incentive bonus structures
- Generous sign-on / relocation bonus
- Annual $5,000 CME + $1,000 license/dues
- 8 weeks PTO (6 vacation, 2 CME)
- 5-7% retirement match + 457b program
- 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
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, two accredited colleges, 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, 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.
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” 7 times over the last 10 years. Benefis covers ¼ of the state's land mass, an area comparable in size to Kansas and can provide care for everything except for burns and organ transplants. We offer great specialty support including 3 neurosurgeons, a cardiothoracic and vascular program, a regional cancer institute and a brand-new emergency department with a dedicated air ambulance program, including fixed and rotor wing.
Contact us today to learn more! ericamartin@benefis.org
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