Family Medicine with OB - Thief River Falls, MN!

Sanford Health has an immediate opening for a BC/BE Family Medicine with skills and experience in Obstetrics to practice in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.

• Busy practice of 15-20 outpatients per weekday
• Practice is primarily outpatient with OB coverage; must be competent in both vaginal and caesarean section deliveries
• Several Sanford Family Medicine physicians also perform OB along with two OBGYNS to support this practice
• 200-300 births per year
• Each Family Medicine Physician is assigned a nurse, office & 2 exam rooms
• OB Call is expected to be 1:3
• Thief River Falls qualifies as a HPSA site
• New facility opened in 2014 with spacious OR & Same Day facility

Sanford Clinic Thief River Falls is a spacious, modern 65,000 square-foot facility.  The clinic features a staff of twenty-two physicians practicing family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, pediatrics, ENT, general surgery, radiology, orthopedics and podiatry .  Additional services include a same-day surgery center with two ORs and an endoscopy room, radiology with fixed MRI and CT, lab services, a walk-in clinic, women's health services, stress testing, physical therapy, chiropractic services and a retail pharmacy.  Support staff includes three NPs, three PAs, one certified diabetic educator, one audiologist, three physical therapists, nineteen RNs and thirty-three LPNs.  Ten CRNAs staff the OR/Same-Day Surgery Center. 

Sanford Thief River Falls Medical Center is a well-equipped, 25-bed critical access hospital.  It features three main ORs, a 4-bed ICU, three birthing suites, 24/7 emergency room services as well as radiology, ultrasound, a fixed 16-slice CT, ultrasound, mammography and nuclear medicine and mobile MRI services.  Staffed by 300+employees Northwest Medical Center is just one of several large employers in the community.

Thief River Falls, Minnesota, located 300 miles northwest of the Twin Cities, is a beautiful, welcoming community of 8,500 featuring many of the amenities of a larger city. Aside from its strong agricultural base, Thief River Falls serves as a regional health center to a mostly rural service area of 75,000.  The community has much to offer including a regional airport, an excellent public school district, Northland Community and Technical College with a sister campus at East Grand Forks, Minnesota. 

Thief River Falls serves as the Pennington County  seat and is home to Arctic Cat Enterprises, manufacturer of snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles and Digi-Key Corporation, a maker of electronics distributed worldwide.  For your outdoor pleasure, hunting and fishing are literally at your doorstep.  The greater Minnesota lakes country is less than an hour away and an hour's drive west will bring you to Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Grand Forks, home of the University of North Dakota and UND School of Medicine offers a wide variety of shopping, unique restaurants, live theater and symphony as well as the Alerus Event Center, a multi-purpose arena that hosts sports events, big name entertainment and trade shows.

Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the United States, is dedicated to the integrated delivery of health care, genomic medicine, senior care and services, global clinics, research and affordable insurance. Headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, the organization includes 46 hospitals, 1,400 physicians and more than 200 Good Samaritan Society senior care locations in 26 states and 10 countries. Learn more about Sanford Health's transformative work to improve the human condition at sanfordhealth.org or Sanford Health News.

When you join Sanford Health you will join a leader in the health care industry in the Upper Midwest.  Sanford Health offers: 

• Competitive compensation and full benefits package
• Paid malpractice insurance
• Research and academic opportunities
• Call schedules allowing for meaningful family time
• Excellent referral base from Sanford's primary care clinics
• No partnership buy-in costs
• State-of-the-art technology

For more information regarding this excellent practice opportunity contact:

Sanford Health Physician Recruitment (Fargo Region)

PO Box 2010
Route 2217
Fargo, ND 58122-2217

Phone: (701) 234-6547
Fax: (701) 234-6575
PhysicianRecruitmentFGO@sanfordhealth.org