Family Medicine Opportunity in Western Illinois
Family oriented community, great schools, and great recreation
Location: Pittsfield, Illinois (population 4,200)
Employer: Blessing Corporate Services, Inc.
Initial Contract Term: Two years (negotiable), and renewable
Compensation:
Competative
• Sign-on Bonus and Relocation Assistance included
• Eligibility for Annual Productivity Incentive Bonuses
Benefits: Health, life, vision, dental, disability, and AD&D insurance, malpractice coverage, 403(b) pension plan plus 457(b)
tax-deferred investment option, six weeks of annual paid time off plus one week of CIVIE time, and $5,000 annual allowance
for professional expenses.
Health System: The Blessing Health System is the largest healthcare provider in the Tri-State Region composed of West
Central Illinois, Northeast Missouri, and Southeast Iowa, and includes two hospitals and a 40-member physician group.
Financially it is a very strong organization with substantial operating reserves and a bond rating from Moody’s and
Standard and Poor’s. The Family Medicine physician being sought will be employed by Blessing Corporate Services, Inc.,
and be the third Family Physician working at the Rural Health Clinic operated by its affiliate, Illini Community Hospital, a
Critical Access Hospital, serving a market area of approximately 25,000. The physician is expected to live in Pike County,
Illinois, and to take a leadership position in the community and with the Hospital’s Medical Staff. The physician is needed
due to growth of the current two- physician practice. The practice’s two incumbent physicians are Board Certified in Family
Medicine. The Hospital has a full- time medical staff of nine, with 23 other physicians from neighboring communities
conducting part-time consulting clinics in their specialties. The Hospital maintains a 24- hour Emergency Department
staffed by employed physicians. Full laboratory, radiology, and other support departments are on hand, and imaging
technology includes a new 64- slice CT machine.
Community: Pike County, Illinois, of which Pittsfield is the County Seat, is bordered on the East and West by the Illinois and
Mississippi Rivers, respectively, and is rated as the number one deer hunting county in the U.S. It is an outdoorsman’s
paradise with extraordinary hunting and fishing opportunities. Pittsfield, population 4,200, is a clean, friendly, safe, and
progressive community with a robust town square, balanced by a west end commercial strip that includes major or retailers
such as Wal-Mart, Pizza Hut, Sears, and McDonalds. The public schools are sound and above the Midwest average in quality
and the town boasts an outstanding public library and branch campus for the regional public community college. Quality
homes are available across the financial spectrum, ranging from historic Victorian Era mansions along Washington Street to
contemporary new construction at the City’s fringes. Pittsfield is steeped in the history of Abraham Lincoln who was a
frequent visitor and tried numerous cases there, and who tapped two local products to serve in his inner-circle as America’
s 16th President.
For more information, 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