Medical Director / Family Medicine Physician | Missoula, Montana

Partnership Health Center, a mission-driven community health center in Missoula, Montana, is recruiting an experienced Family Medicine physician leader for a full-time Medical Director role.

Position Highlights:

• 50/50 structure: 2 days/week clinic, 2 days/week Medical Director administrative and leadership work.
• 100% outpatient clinical time — no inpatient call or hospital rounding.
• Meaningful leadership scope: clinical, quality, operational, and medical staff committee leadership.
• Epic EMR with MyChart and ambient documentation (DAX) support.
• Teaching and precepting opportunities with the Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana, plus quality-improvement and population-health involvement.
• Multidisciplinary team with integrated behavioral health, dental, pharmacy, and care management on site.
• High-priority search — Partnership Health Center is actively looking to move quickly on the right candidate.
• Missoula: a vibrant college town with year-round outdoor access — hiking, skiing, paddling, and fly fishing minutes from home.

Position Benefits: 

• Competitive comprehensive benefits package
• Annual Medical Director incentive
• Sign-on bonus
• Montana PERS defined-benefit pension with ~9% employer contribution
• PSLF-eligible nonprofit employer; site qualifies for NHSC loan repayment consideration
• Annual CME allowance plus 5 CME days
• Generous front-loaded PTO
• Negotiable relocation assistance

Candidate Profile

MD or DO, Board Eligible/Certified in Family Medicine, active BLS, with at least 5 years of clinical experience — ideally 2+ years in a leadership role. FQHC experience is helpful but not required; we're looking for a collaborative physician leader.

Partnership Health Center (PHC) is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) based in Missoula, Montana, founded in 1993 out of the county health department's basement. It's grown into a large community health system serving around 18,000 patients a year, with locations spread across Missoula County — the main clinic at the Creamery Building downtown, plus sites at the Missoula Food Bank & Community Center, Lowell School, Seeley-Swan Medical Center, PHC at Alder, and PHC at the Poverello Center. Services span primary medical care, pharmacy, behavioral health, and dental, with an explicit mission of serving everyone regardless of income or insurance status, including patients experiencing homelessness or food insecurity.

One development worth knowing for context on this engagement: PHC and Missoula County are in the process of formally separating — PHC has historically operated under the county umbrella but is becoming an independent nonprofit, a transition CEO Lara Salazar attributes to the organization having outgrown that structure. The separation is expected to be finalized around the end of 2025, and both sides have said it shouldn't produce any patient-facing changes or affect PHC's FQHC status. It mirrors similar splits other Montana counties (Flathead, Cascade) have gone through with their own health centers.