APP Geriatric Trauma Injury Consult Service

Advanced Practice Provider Opportunity

Benefis Health System, in Great Falls, Montana, is looking for an advanced practice provider to provide specialized care to older adults 65+ admitted with acute medical conditions following traumatic injury, emphasizing geriatric assessment, addressing functional decline and complex care needs, interdisciplinary coordination and safe transitions of care.

Core Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive geriatric assessments, including functional status, cognitive screening, frailty evaluation, fall risk, and polypharmacy review.
• Develop and adjust individualized inpatient care plans based on geriatric principles and patient goals
• Partner with medical teams to manage acute medical conditions common in older adults and optimize management of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, CKD, dementia, and osteoporosis.
• Provide delirium prevention, management, and education including non-pharmacologic strategies and safe medication use
• Review medications, ensuring careful attention to renal dosing, drug interactions, and deprescribing when appropriate, in coordination with primary care teams and pharmacy
• Order, interpret, and integrate diagnostic tests (labs, imaging, EKGs) into patient care plans when appropriate
• Prepare patients and families for safe discharge, including education, follow-up planning, and coordination with outpatient providers or skilled nursing facilities.
• Collaborate closely with hospitalists, specialists, nursing, PT/OT, case management, social work, and palliative care.

Additional Information

• General schedule is Monday Friday, 8:00 am 5:00 pm
• 5+ years' experience in inpatient medicine, geriatrics, or acute care with ability to manage complex medical needs in a fast-paced collaborative environment trauma service experience strongly preferred
• Strong competency in diagnostic reasoning, geriatric syndromes, and ability to have respectful interdisciplinary communication
• Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) or Adult-Gerontology Primary Care NP (AGPCNP) preferred but other degrees will be considered based on experience
• Desire to grow and expand services based on patient needs and program evolution

Why We Stand Out

• Epic electronic medical record and good clinical support staffing structures
• Stand alone, financially stable, not-for-profit health system led by a CEO with a 20+ year tenure
• Over 460 employed physicians and advanced practice providers on medical staff
• 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
• Native American programs designed to ensure patients and their families receive care that is culturally sensitive, respectful, and supportive of their unique needs and traditions.
• International airport with direct flights to: DEN, SLC, SEA, ORD, LAS and PHX

How We Support You

• Nationally competitive compensation structures with guaranteed salaries + productivity and performance bonuses
• 33 days paid time off (28 days PTO, 5 days CME)
• Relocation assistance
• Annual $5,000 CME + $1,000 license/dues
• 5-7% retirement match
• Paid malpractice + tail
• Provider 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, 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 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.