Gastroenterologist - Hospitalist - Full Time or Part Time

GI Hospitalist – full time and part time opportunity available  

Benefis Health System is looking to add a full time and a part time physician to an established GI hospitalist practice in Great Falls, Montana. The practice serves 80,000 Great Falls residents as well as 275,000 residents across north central Montana.  

Currently, we employ 2 traditional GI Physicians, 2 full time GI Hospitalists (1 departing), various per diem GI Hospitalists (filling 10.4 weeks/year) 1 Inpatient PA-C, and?2 outpatient Advanced Practice Providers. Applicants must be board eligible/certified.? ERCP is required. 

Procedures: 

• Colonoscopies 

• EGDs 

• ERCPs 

• EUS (optional) 

• Flexible sigmoidoscopies 

• PEG tube placements 

Schedule: 

• Hospital employed, full time = 146 shifts annually (20.8 weeks) or part time = 73 shifts annually (10.4 wks) 

• Flexible schedule: full time partner physician works 3 weeks on 5 weeks off  

• Average of 6 cases per day (range of about 2-9) 

• Experienced PA-C to help with consults and rounding  

• Dedicated M-F block to complete urgent/emergent procedures and dedicated Sunday block from 7:00 am – 12:00 pm, working with endoscopy staff to complete weekend cases  

• Additional opportunity for outpatient lab time during off stretch is available but not required 

How we support you 

• 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 

• 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 

Current Endoscopy Information: 

• Five?endoscopy suites and one bronchoscopy suite located directly outside the ER and across from the main OR 

• 10 bed recovery unit 

• Olympus equipment? 

• Experienced and helpful staff of RNs and tech 

• Anesthesia services provided and GI Hospitalist had a dedicated suite 

• Designed as an ambulatory surgical center and all patients are managed within the unit with occasional procedures in the OR (based on BMI) 

Future Endoscopy Information: 

• In the process of building a separate space within the hospital, completed August 2024, expanding from 9,000 SF to 22,000 SF 

• Eight?endoscopy suites 

• 10 pre op and 14 post op 

• Olympus equipment 

• Experienced and helpful staff of RNs and techs 

• Anesthesia services provided and GI Hospitalist had a dedicated suite 

• Designed as an ambulatory surgical center and all patients are managed within the unit with occasional procedures in the OR (based on BMI) 

Work Hours and Call Coverage  

Gastroenterology call is covered by GI Hospitalists, allowing our traditional practicing physicians the ability to have high volume general practices. The GI hospitalist is typically in house from?approximately 7 am – 4 pm on weekdays, does rounds on Saturday and procedures on Sunday in a dedicated block from 7:00 am – 12:00 pm with endoscopy staff and anesthesia to reduce the use of main OR over the weekend. While this position does take 24 hour call, our ER and ICU overnight teams typically understand urgent/emergent GI cases can wait until morning and do not typically call during late night/overnight hours. 

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.   

Benefis Hospitals has 586 beds at its two campuses (that includes 146 beds in long-term care and 20 beds at Peace Hospice of Montana) and partners with over 300 area physicians. Our hospital has been recognized for its exceptional work in quality care by providing a wide range of programs and services to help you live the best life possible. We’re here to help you “Live well.”

Benefis Health System came about when two Christian-based hospitals became one. Our founders' believed in providing good care to all in need, and trusted that this would be accomplished. The Benefis name was derived using Latin root words: "Bene-" meaning good, and "fis-" for faith and trust. It’s these same root words that make up such terms as ‘beneficial’ and ‘confidence’.

Benefis has been a trusted provider of care for more than 100 years. And our name speaks to our commitment: good care one can put faith in.

Benefis is consistently ranked among America’s top hospitals by the nation’s leading healthcare ratings organizations for a range of services, including cancer care, joint replacement, stroke treatment, wound care and home health.

As a not-for-profit community health system, Benefis is driven to provide the highest level of care. We serve nearly 275,000 residents across a 15-county region that is bigger than Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont combined. Benefis is the largest non-governmental employer in the Great Falls area, with 3,400 employees.