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Posted: 26-Apr-23
Location: Great Falls, Montana
Type: Full Time
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Emergency Medicine Medical Director Opportunity
The Medical Director over the Benefis Emergency Department provides medical leadership to providers in collaboration with operations directors and department management. This may include: establishing patient care standards and operating procedures and overseeing the implementation, coordination, evaluation and promotion of the Department’s medical services. The Medical Director guides the Department in areas of quality, patient experience, education, oversight of trauma services as pertains to the Department’s responsibilities and Emergency Department provider performance monitoring.
Responsibilities:
- To provide leadership, planning, organization, staffing, coordination, and evaluation for emergency department provider activities.
- Is responsible for medical staff administration, personnel, and activities in the emergency department.
- Provide physician oversight of Advanced Practice Clinicians in accordance with the Advanced Practice Clinician Quality Assurance Physician Oversight Requirements Policy.
- Has the responsibility for ensuring the ethical practice of emergency medicine within the department.
- Directly supervises and has responsibility for emergency physicians/providers in clinical and assigned administrative duties to include scheduling.
- Acts as a liaison with hospital administration and medical staff.
- Promotes and participates in a collaborative, interdisciplinary ED leadership team.
- Collaborates with ED leadership team to ensure that departmental performance meets or exceeds standards described in medical staff rules and regulations, hospital bylaws, departmental policies, CMS and other appropriate local and national standards.
- Works with ED leadership team to ensure that the department meets or exceeds its defined objectives for improvement, growth and expansion of services.
- Ensures departmental policies are known, understood, and implemented by the emergency department physicians/providers.
- Monitors correctness and appropriateness of the emergency department records; implements corrective intervention as required in association with medical records and quality assurance mechanisms.
- Is available for counseling, advice, information, and general support to the physicians/providers and other department members.
- Together with nursing leadership, ensures adequacy of EMS communications and physician EMS command.
Qualifications:
- Career emergency medicine physician with proven clinical and administrative skills
- Board certified in emergency medicine
- Meets ACEP requirements for annual continuing medical education
- Demonstrated ability to speak effectively on administrative and clinical matters related to emergency medicine.
Department Information
- 33 bed beautiful Emergency Department with recent $12m complete remodel
- 9 bed RME Unit
- 11 bed Critical Care Unit
- 13 bed Clinical Decision Unit
- Level II Trauma Center, functioning as level I
- Well run, high functioning department with 30-35% admission rate
- Large air ambulance program - fixed wing jet and helicopter completing 3-4 missions a day, 1100-1200 flights annually – flight team is based in ED
- Always 2 board certified Emergency Medicine Physicians on shift as a resource
- Innovative technology throughout department including:
- IV pumps programed by chars
- Bedside ultrasound in all trauma bays
- CT, x-ray and ultrasound live in ED footprint
- 2 way radio real time communication
- Tele-stroke, tele-neuro services
- Dedicated ED communication center for all transports/external transfers
- Extremely low turnover, our first opening in over 5 years
- Must have experience to be eligible for this position.
Schedule, Compensation and Benefits
- Full time position with shift based structure (non RVU)
- Varied shifts - approximately 3/week with flexible scheduling
- $5k CME + additional $1k annually
- Health, dental, and paid disability insurance
- Malpractice insurance with tail coverage
- Retirement + 5% match
Community Information Great Falls has a city population of 60,000, with a draw of over 275,000 people in north central Montana. We 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 and an average commute of under 12 minutes, making the quality of life in Great Falls unsurpassed in the Rocky Mountain West. Additionally, the Missouri River, a blue-ribbon fly-fishing destination, runs through the middle of town. Outdoor activities include camping, hiking, horseback riding, water& snow skiing, rock & ice climbing, boating, white-water kayaking, off-road motor sports, upland bird, waterfowl, and big-game hunting.
Benefis Health System This is your opportunity to be part of an exceptional health system in a state that is well known for its beautiful four seasons and outdoor lifestyle. While enjoying the last best place, you'll have the added benefit of having access to Benefis Health System, one of the state's most modern and progressive healthcare facilities with 500+ beds and over 300 members on medical staff representing 40 specialties. Our state-of-the-art facilities and cutting edge technologies make Benefis an exceptional working environment and one of the Best Places To Work in Healthcare 6 years in a row!
If you are interested in further conversation, please send your CV and we can schedule a phone call!
Erica Martin
Senior Physician Recruiter, Benefis Health System
1101 26th Street South, Great Falls MT 59405
EricaMartin@benefis.org | 406-731-8882