Physician Careers
Choose a Career That Matters
Our physicians and advanced practitioners strive to be the best for our patients. We believe in the power of working together, as one team, to ensure everyone knows just how much they matter to this world, no matter what UnityPoint Health location someone visits. Our providers act as partners in a patient’s health care journey, creating trusting and lasting relationships, so people can go from getting well to living well.
Why Choose UnityPoint Health?
Our culture sets us apart. Our team strives to work as one through four key, shared values. As a provider, you’ll work collectively to lead a care team, ensuring the best care is delivered to your patients and communities.
The benefits package, known as Total Rewards, is comprehensive and flexible. Along with the standard medical, dental, vision and 401K, we offer benefits to assist with your personal life. For example, our physician concierge program, which is sort of like an all-purpose virtual assistant, can help with the small things, so you can focus on taking care of patients and enjoying life outside of work. This unique program, along with many other benefits, makes UnityPoint Health a place where you’ll feel how truly amazing you are.
For Physicians & Providers
In addition to the benefits we offer to all employees at UnityPoint Health, we also offer an attractive compensation package and generous benefits for physicians and providers. When choosing to grow your practice in one of our strong communities and help shape the delivery of care, you’ll receive:
- Well-being support including a dedicated provider wellness service (Vital WorkLife Balance) and wellness credit
- Parental leave
- Malpractice insurance
- CME allowance and time off
- Epic training and experience
- Leadership development program
Innovation is essential to our ever-changing industry, and it’s woven into all strategic organizational plans. We’re constantly challenging ourselves to improve for our team and our patients. Among our efforts — mapping a long-term digital health strategy and strategically investing in early-stage health care companies that focus on easing provider workloads and make health care less complicated for patients.
- New provider and site-specific orientations
- Provider onboarding for well-being - Weekly touchpoints over the first six weeks intended to offer additional support to new providers
- New provider retreat - Annual event for new-to-UnityPoint Clinic providers with opportunities to hear from senior leaders across the enterprise and connect with fellow new providers
- Provider engagement team - Sub-committee of UnityPoint Clinic’s Physician Governance Council to address provider culture, well-being and workflows
- Provider EAP through VITAL Worklife - Provider-specific TPA benefit for EAP as well as external coaching
- Provider HELP - Provider-specific inbox utilized to help providers avoid phone call wait times and provide connection to employment agreements
- Physician leadership academy -18-month program offered every other year with content developed by the American Association for Physician Leadership
- Physician executive leadership program - Two-year program with components including mentorship, regular 1:1s with senior leaders, opportunities to attend senior leader and governance meetings with a required project in year two of the program
- Physician leadership and APP leadership development + individual leadership coaching
- Peer coaching
Our Credentials Verification Office (CVO) centralizes, standardizes and streamlines the credentialing verification and recredentialing verification communication and overall workflow. Our goal is to supply provider-centric credentials verification that is electronic, secure and efficient.
Connect with a Recruiter
Exploring career opportunities is simple. You’ll work with one recruiter for the entire process. Our recruiters are knowledgeable about openings across our enterprise and will help you find the right fit at the right location. With their help, you'll decide what’s best for you, based on your career goals and personal aspirations.
You can submit your CV directly to our team at UPC_RecruitmentCV@unitypoint.org.
For specific inquiries by Market or specialty, please contact the appropriate recruiter below.
Physician Talent Partners
Drew Birdsall
Emergency Medicine, Oncology, Gynecology Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Radiology, PMR
andrew.birdsall@unitypoint.org
Tina Dalton
Anesthesia, General Surgery, Breast Surgery, Colorectal Surgery, Plastic Surgery, ENT, Urology, Orthopedics
Email: tina.dalton@unitypoint.org
Abby Hall
Hospitalist, Internal Medicine (Outpatient), Pulmonary/Critical Care, Infectious Disease, UnityPoint Health at Work
Andrea Sims
General Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, EP Cardiology, Vascular Surgery, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology
Email: andrea.sims@unitypoint.org
Whitney Tate
Family Medicine, Pediatrics, OBGYN, Psychiatry, Neonatology, Urgent Care, Blank Children’s Hospital
Email: whitney.tate@unitypoint.org
Advanced Practitioner Recruiters
Kristine Harris
Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Madison, Quad Cities, Waterloo
kristine.harris@unitypoint.orgRecruitment Assistants
Caden Clouse
Central Iowa, Fort Dodge, Sioux City
Email: caden.clouse@unitypoint.org
Lisa Olberding Shaw
Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Madison, Quad Cities, Waterloo
lisa.olberdingshaw@unitypoint.orgProvider Services Specialists
Mandy Rudolph
Dubuque, Quad Cities, UnityPoint Health at Work, Waterloo
Email: mandy.rudolph@unitypoint.org
Miranda Wieck
Blank Children’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids, Madison, Telehospitalist, UnityPoint Health – Des Moines,
Email: miranda.wieck@unitypoint.org
Provider Services Leadership
Rachel Hardin
VP of Human Resources
Email: rachel.hardin@unitypoint.org
Alan Johnson
Director of Physician Recruitment
Email: alan.johnson@unitypoint.org
Jamie Eveland
Provider Onboarding Manager
Email: jamie.eveland@unitypoint.org
Amy Coleman
Provider Recruitment Manager
Email: amy.coleman@unitypoint.org
Sarah Florian
Program Manager Provider Development
Email: sarah.florian@unitypoint.org
Medical Student Education and Contracting
Tasha Wells
Student Clinical Education Coordinator
Email: tasha.wells@unitypoint.org
Lindsey Kain
Student Clinical Education Coordinator
Email: lindsey.kain@unitypoint.org