Nephrology Medical Director

When you join us, you’ll become a part of a nationally recognized health system dedicated to our mission of “helping people live the healthiest lives possible.”   

About this role: 

As a Nephrologist  you will work with a team of healthcare professionals committed to providing quality care and excellent patient experience.  

Intermountain Health is seeking a collaborative and mission?driven enterprise?wide Medical Director to join our nephrology team based at the Budge Clinic in Logan, Utah. This unique role blends clinical practice with strategic leadership, offering the opportunity to shape the future of kidney services across the enterprise while continuing meaningful patient care. 

In this position, you’ll balance 0.6 FTE of clinical practice with 0.4 FTE of administrative leadership, supporting the growth, quality, and success of nephrology services system?wide 

What you'll do:  

• Your primary practice location will be the Budge Clinic in Logan, Utah, with clinic hours Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

• Clinical responsibilities include outpatient clinic care, dialysis oversight, and inpatient rounding, with additional clinical support provided to McKay?Dee Hospital and Layton Hospital. 

• Call responsibilities will generally be one out of every four to five weeks. 

• You will collaborate closely with Intermountain nephrologists, advanced practice providers, and nurse navigators to deliver comprehensive general nephrology care across outpatient, hospital, dialysis, and telehealth settings. 

• The ideal candidate will demonstrate leadership experience, support a patient?centered, value?based care model, and collaborate effectively within multidisciplinary teams.

• A teaching and learning mindset, as well as an interest in home dialysis, is preferred. 

• Participation in weekly interdisciplinary care meetings and educational conferences is supported. 

How we'll support you: 

We care about your wellbeing which is why we provide our caregivers with a generous benefits package. In addition, we offer paid time off, license reimbursement, malpractice insurance coverage, and an annual CME allowance to support your continuous growth and development.  Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.  

What you’ll bring: 

• MD or DO degree from a fully accredited medical or osteopathic school of medicine 

• Residency training Internal Medicine 

• 4 + years of experience as a Nephrologist, required 

• Board certification or eligibility in Nephrology  

• Active, unobstructed Utah medical license, or the ability to obtain one 

• Full prescriptive authority and an active DEA in each state, or the ability to obtain one 

• Ability to successfully complete Intermountain Health’s credentialing process 

• Candidates requiring Visa sponsorship will be reviewed on an individual basis 

About us: 

Intermountain Health?is a model health system by providing extraordinary care and superior service at an affordable cost. We are an integrated not-for-profit system of 33 hospitals, 400 clinics, and a medical group with more than 5,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers across six states in the mountain west.? 

Our value statements are core to our culture. They reflect the behavior and attitudes that are important to us, are an agreement for how we treat each other, help us make decisions on how to act, and are a promise of what people can expect from us.  Learn more about our Mission, Vision, and Values at: About Intermountain! 

Intermountain Health was recently recognized by the American Medical Association’s Joy in Medicine award for our commitment to physician wellbeing. We also received the Lorna Breen Wellbeing First Champion award. 

What does it mean to be a part of Intermountain Health?  

It means joining the Power of We, building an environment where providers and caregivers can deliver the best in healthcare. Realizing each caregiver, learner, and volunteer is vital to providing care to our patients, because WE can only achieve the extraordinary together. Committed to the best in medical education, research and most advanced technology, the results are better clinical patient outcomes.  

Life in Logan, UT 

Logan is a growing community about 82 miles north of Salt Lake City. Logan fosters a wide variety of cultural, educational, recreational, sporting, commercial and health care opportunities.? Outstanding fishing, biking, hiking, skiing, and golfing: all are minutes away from your front door. Even with the natural beauty, Logan has an excellent park system and a challenging municipal golf course. For year round beauty and things to do, Cache Valley is hard to beat. Along with the academic stimulation of Utah State University, a division I college, Logan offers superb family living with quality school systems and reasonable living costs generally 10% less than other areas of the country. Logan is only 90 minutes from the metropolitan Salt Lake area which offers an even wider assortment of cultural, recreational and sporting events.? Logan Regional Hospital is a 148-bed facility serving the health care needs of Logan and the surrounding region.? It has been named as one of the nation’s 100 top hospitals by Modern Healthcare magazine.? Excellent primary care is available as well as a wide variety of specialty care.