Job ID: 2177
Type: Physicians
State: MT
Area: Central Montana
Specialty: HOSPITALIST
Description: Facility is seeking a board-certified Internal Medicine physician to join the hospitalist group serving our academic community hospital
- In addition to patient care, our mission is to provide education and supervision to internal medicine residents and medical students alike.
- Dedicated swing shift 11 am – 9 pm, 7 on 7 off, averaging 8 admissions per day
- Ability to call for back up support from day rounder team if admissions are unmanageable
- Designated private physician office space in the clinical decision unit area attached directly to the emergency department
- Additional after-hours resources for support and collaboration include 2 dedicated nocturnists on shift from 7p-7a, at least 2 board certified emergency medicine physicians on shift, and 24/7 in house intensivist coverage
- Cover only 1 hospital admitting medical and surgical patients 18 years of age and older (adult), excluding obstetrical and providing medical coordination and inpatient utilization management for surgical patients
- Epic EMR
- Procedures optional with privileging and no ICU coverage required (intensivists are in house 24/7 for consultation)
- Oversight of Internal Medicine Residents from time to time with additional opportunity to teach medical students.
- Epic electronic medical record and good clinical support staffing structures
- Nationally competitive shift-based compensation structures with additional performance bonuses
- Generous sign-on / relocation bonus
- Annual $5,000 CME + $1,000 license/dues
- 5-7% retirement match + 457b program
- Paid malpractice + tail
- J VISA OK
Community/Facility info: This health system has two campuses with 344 licensed acute care beds, a 124 bed nursing home and 12 bed residential Hospice. We serve an area of 15 counties with approximately 225,000 people.
Facts about the health system:
•We are the largest hospital in Montana.
•Level II Trauma Center
•Mercy Flight air-transport is based out of our state-of-the art Emergency Department.
•Cancer Institute, opened in December 2005, houses CyberKnife, one of only a few in the nation and the only one in the entire state.
•Heart Institute
•State-of-the-art operating rooms and equipment.
•October 2009, a new patient tower opened which includes Women and Children's Services, Neonatology, Radiology and a Heart and Vascular Institute.
This community has a population of just under 60,000. Settled around the Missouri River, this area provides numerous arts, cultural, outdoor and entertainment activities.
Contact: For more information please contact Ryan Hawkins at [email protected] or call 716-689-6000.