Family Practice Opportunity in Pinkneyville, IL
Pinckneyville Community Hospital located in Pinckneyville, Illinois has an opportunity available for a family
practice physician. Pinckneyville is located approximately 30 miles north of Carbondale, Illinois and is an hour and
fifteen minutes away from St. Louis, Missouri. Within 4 hours, you can reach Memphis, Nashville, Louisville and
Indianapolis. Chicago is 5 ½ hours away and can be reached via train to Union Station. The opportunity is an
office/hospital practice with a hospital-based rural health clinic and
offers an employed situation with benefits to a prospective physician.
The call coverage would be one in five with an afternoon off each week and a requirement to work every 4th
Saturday from nine until noon to handle walk-in patients in the clinic. Pinckneyville offers a relaxed rural life style
with convenient access to larger communities. A wide variety of recreational activities are available including
hunting, fishing, bicycling, golf and boating on the nearby Rend Lake to name but a few. The Pinckneyville school
system, in conjunction with Rend Lake College, offers the opportunity for high school students to take dual credit
courses that will transfer to Rend Lake or to other Illinois colleges. These classes are part of the high school
curriculum and are available at no additional cost to students.
The position offers a competitive salary with productivity incentives. Benefits include three week’s vacation, one
week’s paid CME with an allowance to cover the cost of the CME programs. Malpractice insurance, health
insurance, long term disability insurance and a base level life insurance are also included with no out of pocket
cost to the physician. Once eligible for the hospital’s 403(b) plan, the hospital matches a 2% contribution with 3 1/2
% to the limit allowed by law. A sign-on bonus of $15,000 is available as is a relocation allowance.
If you have an interest in exploring this opportunity in further detail, please contact
Carrie Galbraith
Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network
Critical Access Recruitment Service
Phone: 217-925-5968
Email: illinoiscriticalaccess@yahoo.com
web: www.criticalaccessrecruitment.org
Critical Access
Recruitment Services
Carrie Galbraith
Director of Recruitment Services