Family Practice Opportunity in beautiful Southern Illinois Competitive Salary
plus call pay, full benefits
Hamilton Memorial Hospital in McLeansboro Illinois has an employment opportunity for a Family Practice physician. This
physician will join a retiring physician in practice and eventually take over the practice. The current physician has been
practicing in the community for over 25 years. This is an excellent opportunity to step into a busy, established practice.
The opportunity requires inpatient and outpatient duties. The clinic is open 9 am to 5 pm Monday thru Friday. Call is
approximately one weekend a month and one night per week (6 pm to 6 am). You can elect to take additional call shifts if
desired. Exceptional hourly pay is provided when on call. The physician is required to live locally.
The opportunity offers a competitive base salary plus incentives and on call pay. There is an opportunity to make 300K or
more with the addition of call pay. Hamilton Memorial Hospital offers excellent benefits including paid Blue Cross and Blue
Shield family coverage insurances with 100% coverage for services rendered by Hamilton Memorial Hospital, voluntary
dental insurance, health and dental premiums paid pre tax, paid life insurance, voluntary life insurance, voluntary cancer
insurance, voluntary short term and long term disability plans, retirement contributions of 4% of earnings, tax deferred
voluntary retirement plans, paid time off program with paid time (Vacation), sick time, payroll deduct savings plans and
Christmas Club, discounted prescription through the hospital pharmacy, CME allotment of $2,500 per year, five days CME,
up to $10,000 moving expenses.
Hamilton Memorial Hospital is a 25 bed Critical Access Hospital. CAH status allows the hospital to receive better
reimbursement for Medicare patients, assuring its financial stability. Hamilton Memorial Hospital offers a 24-hour physician
covered emergency department and adult and pediatric medical/surgical care. Hamilton also offers inpatient and
outpatient surgical services. Surgical Services offered at Hamilton Memorial include General Surgery, ENT, and
Ophthalmology. The hospital also provides physical, occupational, and speech therapy; respiratory therapy, homecare,
and hospice services. Diagnostic services offered at Hamilton include MRI, CT, X-ray, mammography, bone density
studies, and laboratory services. Medical specialists visiting the hospital include cardiology, dermatology, podiatry, and
ophthalmology. Hamilton Memorial Hospital also offers an array of social and educational services to the community.
Recently, Hamilton Memorial Hospital broke ground on an $18.5 million dollar expansion and renovation project which will
include adding all new private inpatient rooms, a therapy pool, new physician offices, new operating rooms, and a new
emergency department. Most of the project will be complete by June of 2009.
McLeansboro is the county seat of Hamilton County. McLeansboro is located in picturesque southern Illinois. The
community is 271 miles southwest of Chicago, 161 miles southeast of Springfield, 103 miles (1 ½ hour) southeast of St.
Louis, Missouri, and 60 miles west of Evansville, Indiana. McLeansboro offers easy access to interstate 57 and 64. The
community has most everything for you and your family’s everyday needs including casual dining, shopping, supplies, and
beautiful library offering multiple actives for young and old. McLeansboro is part of the Hamilton County School District.
The district offers K-12, preschool, and a family resource center. McLeansboro is also less than 30 minutes from Mt.
Vernon Illinois.
Mt. Vernon offers a large array of restaurants, shopping, outlet malls, etc. The McLeansboro area offers abundant
recreational activities for you and your family. Dolan Lake offers fishing, hunting, picnicking, camping, boating, and
beautiful scenery. McLeansboro is also located just on the edge of the Shawnee National Forest. The Shawnee National
Forest includes an abundance of wetlands, floodplains and riparian areas. The Shawnee National Forest is made up of 146
miles of rivers and streams, more than 200 individual lakes and ponds encompassing 5,200 surface acres. The Forest also
contains many visually attractive hydrologic features including waterfalls, lakes, ponds and rocky streams. The area
provides picnicking, hunting, fishing, fly fishing, biking, hiking, camping, rock climbing, rappelling, canoeing, gold panning,
and majestic views. For more information about the area visit http://www.mcleansboro.net/community/hamcocc.php and
http://www.southernmostillinois.com/
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