Altru Health System is a community-owned, integrated healthcare system with a Trauma II hospital,
a specialty hospital, more than a dozen clinics in Grand Forks and the
surrounding region, and a large home care network. More than 200 physicians
are employed with Altru crossing 44 specialties and serving a referral
population of over 225,000 residents in in northeast North Dakota and
northwest Minnesota. As the first member of the
Mayo Clinic Care Network, Altru’s providers have access to clinically integrated tools extending
Mayo Clinic’s knowledge and expertise to patients.
Practice Overview:
Practice in a Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation Center
Abundant outreach available in the community and region
Work closely with Advanced Practice Providers Physical, Occupational, and
Speech therapists as well as other key professionals in evaluating and
providing care to patients
Duties include history and physical examinations, monthly rounding, and
acute visits as necessary. Visits can be done both virtually and in-person.
Sub-specialists are available for consults
Great work/life balance
The University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences located
in Grand Forks. Offers opportunities to teach medical students and residents
on rotation with additional teaching exposure opportunities on campus.
Altru has a Family Medicine Residency program and UND has a Surgical Residency program.
About Grand Forks
Grand Forks (www.visitgrandforks.com), is a community of 60,000 with an excellent school system, safe neighborhoods,
low crime rate, affordable housing and an abundance of cultural and recreational
activities. A short drive to the natural beauty of clean Minnesota Lakes
or the diversity of nearby metropolitan areas is easy access from Grand
Forks, North Dakota.
The Red River of the North separates Grand Forks from neighboring East
Grand Forks in Minnesota.
The University of North Dakota (UND) (www.und.edu) is located in Grand Forks. The University is one of only 47 public universities
in the country with both a medical school and an accredited law school.
In addition, UND is home to one of the top aerospace programs in the world.
UND competes in Division I intercollegiate sports and is the home to the
11,700-seat Ralph Engelstad Arena which is considered the finest college
hockey arena in the country. Attached is the Betty Engelstad Sioux center
which is home to both men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball
and soccer. It is an ideal venue for catered events and concerts and shows as well.
Altru Health System provides generous compensation, reviewed annually with
specialty specific industry data. Altru also offers an extensive and comprehensive
benefit package.
The Altru Way
How does an organization achieve world-class care? At Altru, we adopted
a model that encompasses three core elements to help us achieve this vision:
evidenced-based leadership, lean management and high reliability. We call
this The Altru Way.
Evidenced-based leadership includes implementing best practices for leading
a complex health system and focuses specifically on alignment, action
and accountability for everyone on the team.
Lean management involves applying the scientific method to improve processes
in everyday work. We involve those closest to the work to trial improvement
ideas. The goal of lean is to reduce waste and increase value for patients
and their family members.
High reliability means we implement the most reliable processes to achieve
the highest standards, gather feedback on how we doing, and continually
learning from results so that we prevent errors in the future.
These three elements work together: leaders align and support continuous
improvement to realize greater reliability and better outcomes. Our physicians
are critical to leading, applying the improvement methods, and learning
with the teams.
About Grand Forks
Grand Forks is a community of more than 55,000 residents located on the border of
North Dakota and Minnesota. Low housing prices and income taxes, low crime
rates and modest healthcare costs make it one of the safest and most affordable
places to live. The north-flowing Red River and the 2,200-acre Greater
Grand Forks Greenway provide year-round outdoor recreation in the heart
of our community.
Grand Forks is home to the
University of North Dakota (UND), a flagship liberal arts university and research college. UND houses
a medical school, a law school, aerospace school, entrepreneurial program
and many other experiential learning programs for a diverse and challenging
educational experience.
Our tight-knit community is the #1 reason
U.S. News ranks North Dakota as the state offering the best quality of life.
With one of the best commute times in the U.S., our “rush hour”
is measured in minutes – not hours.
Our public and private educational systems are some of the best in the
country. Whether you’re 5 or 55, we provide outstanding educational
opportunities for students of all ages and needs.
With a consistently low unemployment rate (<3%), Grand Forks is a hub
for engineering, aerospace, energy, agriculture and healthcare.
Whether you call it a big small town or small big town, Grand Forks has
at least one of everything – including all four seasons.
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