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Federally Qualified Health Centers/Community Health Centers across Illinois are seeking compassionate, mission driven health care providers. Illinois FQHCs/CHCs are providing high quality care to over 1.5 million patients annually. Want to be part of a team making a difference? Learn about full and part time positions serving communities across Illinois below:
Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Internal Medicine, General
Seeking a passionate and dedicated Physician to join our mission-driven team, committed to providing quality, culturally competent primary care to underserved communities. Our physicians play a pivotal role in enhancing community health through accessible, prevention-oriented, and collaborative healthcare services
Location: Palatine, IL - Specialty: Internal Medicine, General
*Please note that this opening is expected for the Fall of 2025.*
This FQHC is a multi-site federally qualified health center providing comprehensive medical, dental and behavioral health services within the Chicagoland area. Our mission is to provide quality, affordable health care for all including those without the ability to pay. We currently have health centers in DeKalb, Elgin, Franklin Park, Hanover Park, McHenry, Palatine, Streamwood, Sycamore, and Wheeling. We are financially and programmatically stable and are continuing to grow. We are Joint Commission Accredited and are PCMH Certified.
In this position, you’ll be able to contribute to your community and make an impact in a patient’s life. If this is you, keep on reading.
How You’ll Help Patients:
- Provide high quality medical care to the patients in accordance with Specialty Certification and policies and procedures.
- Is fully supportive of all quality initiatives.
- Is fully receptive to other responsibilities as assigned.
- Provides all forms of leadership, supervision, direction, training and role modeling to all supportive staff (eg: NA, MA, LPN, RN, PA, NP).
- Works to assure that all responsible areas are fully compliant with all applicable federal and state rules, regulations and laws.
- Insures that all responsible areas are in compliance with all the FQHC objectives, systems, policies, procedures, directives and contractual agreements as indicated by supervisors, contracts, training personnel and the FQHC policies and procedures.
- Maintains a level of efficiency that indicates satisfactory productivity. Provides on call coverage and rounding on inpatients (as appropriate).
- Provides care in age-appropriate fashion according to one’s specialty.
- Report to all scheduled work sites and shifts on time and fully prepared to engage in all job responsibilities; location of work sites and shifts will change at the discretion of the supervisor.
- Engage in all offered training, consultations and supervisions made available.
- Fully and professionally respond to and implement directives and advice offered by all supervisory and training personnel, as well as professionally offered feedback from coworkers.
- Follow and fully implement Corporate Compliance Program. Perform other duties as assigned.
Location: Rockford, IL - Specialty: Internal Medicine, General
This Community Health Center seeks a compassionate, capable Internal Medicine Physician who is motivated to make our organization a leader in delivering quality care, patient satisfaction, and overall value to the mission we serve. We offer an outstanding work environment to employees who are dedicated to providing a superior patient experience.
This CHC serves the Rock River Valley area with quality primary health care for all people in need across our eight locations.
Founded in 1972, this Community Health Center is committed to providing a collaborative healthcare system that is patient-centered in all aspects, affordable and accessible, and high quality with dignity, compassion, and cultural sensitivity. Today we serve as a Patient Centered Medical Home for over 58,000 patients annually. We employ 346 employees, including 81 healthcare providers.
This position is full time (40 hours/week) - three 8-hour days (8:00 am-5:00 pm); one 12-hour day (8:00 am-8:00 pm); and one Saturday per month (8:00 am-12:00 pm).
Preceptor opportunities are available.
Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Internal Medicine, General
This Community Health Center seeks a Internal Medicine Physician to provide a continuum of care that connects patients to health care resources both within and beyond the walls of our 35 federally-qualified health centers (FQHCs).
This Community Health Center is at the forefront of expanding access to affordable, comprehensive healthcare. We understand that we must continually work to evolve our thinking around patient care. As a community health care leader, we know that regardless of all the resources and advancements in medicine today, patient engagement is the most critical element in improving health outcomes. To achieve this outcome, we innovate and develop better practices to improve our care delivery model. To continue successfully down this path, we search for candidates who share our values and goals.
The Internal Medicine Physician will:
- provide outstanding, patient-centered primary and preventive care to a diverse patient population
- work with a team of physicians, nurse practitioners, midwives, and other providers, along with outreach staff, case managers, social workers and substance abuse counselors to advance a continuum of care
- exhibit a positive attitude during daily activities and foster a positive work environment for the entire team
- may function as a preceptor in teaching programs including medical residents, medical students, and advance practice nurse students, as well as other allied health professions.
40 hours per week: 36 clinical and 4 administrative
Locations Available: Multiple
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Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Internal Medicine, General
Position Summary – Family/Internal Medicine Physician
Provide the full scope of services which fall under provider’s field of training, including but not limited to diagnosis, treatment, coordination of care, preventive care, and electronic health record (EHR) maintenance, while following guidelines contained within the quality management, risk management, infection control, customer service and safety programs.
Clinical and Operational Responsibilities
General Clinical
- Obtains health history and perform physical examinations.
- Diagnoses, treats, counsels, and coordinate care for each patient.
- Reviews and update problem list and longitudinal plan of care at every visit.
- Meets documentation standards and completes all progress notes within 24 hours following the patient visit.
- Fulfills on-call responsibilities in accordance with the schedule developed and responds to calls within 20 minutes.
- Prescribe medication in accordance with Illinois statute and professional practice guidelines.
- Performs all duties in conformity with the quality standards and clinical guideline established.
- Meets Meaningful Use standards which is defined as using certified EHR technology to improve quality, safety, efficiency, and reduce health disparities, engage patients and families in their health care, improve care coordination, improve population and public health; all the while maintaining privacy and security.
- Manages EHR In-Basket, transfers In-Basket responsibilities to colleagues when appropriate, and responds to messages (e.g. lab results, refills, patient calls, patient messages, co-sign orders, co-sign charts, and open charts) within 72 hours
Patient Support and Education
- Provides culturally competent care
- Recognizes patients’ families as an integral part of patients’ care teams.
- Ensures that patients’ and families’ needs are met, and clinic policy is followed through.
- Encourage patients and families to voice questions and/or concerns.
- Works with patients and their families as appropriate to encourage care self-management
- Conducts patient education activities, including pre and post instruction exams and procedures, instructions related to illness and treatment, and reinforcement of provider’s follow-up instructions
- Utilizes printed health education materials as appropriate and document all instructions given; while giving consideration to an individual varying level of understanding and adjusts level of presentation to ensure the patient is knowledgeable of medical condition and plan of care
- Works with care team and case management to provide for coordinated delivery of case management services.
- Ensures patients presenting with greater acuity than what is clinically appropriate within the health center are transferred appropriately
- Meets intensity of service and/or severity of illness admission criteria
Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Internal Medicine, General
This Community Health Center is actively seeking a passionate and motivated Internal Medicine Physician. You will love working within our culture and diverse, multi-disciplinary team of medical providers.
Since the 1970s, this Community Health Center has become the primary care medical home for thousands of Chicagoans, including some of the city's most vulnerable populations. As an award winning, nationally recognized leading voice for community health centers, this CHC has played a vital role in providing access to affordable, comprehensive healthcare services to underserved communities throughout Chicago.
Our health network currently includes locations in South Chicago, Pullman, East Side, Roseland, Pullman, Chicago Lawn, and Chicago Vocational Career Academy (CVCA).
Our highly skilled staff are dedicated to providing the best possible care to our patients. We recognize the vital role our health center plays not only in our patients' health, but also as an essential resource that strengthens the communities we serve, which has established our health center as a premier provider of choice and we welcome you to join our team.
Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Internal Medicine Physician to join our interdisciplinary healthcare team. As an Internal Medicine Physician, you will provide ongoing comprehensive primary care to our patients. You will work alongside a team of healthcare professionals to ensure that our patients receive the best possible care.
Responsibilities:
- Provide comprehensive and high-quality primary care services to patients
- Work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary healthcare team
- Partner with hospitals close to our health centers to offer our patients imaging and specialty care
- Participate in education, leadership, research, and advocacy opportunities
- Leverage industry knowledge and best practices to promote the mission and vision of the Medical Department and the organization
- Support and contribute to the growth and development of the healthcare organization
If you are a dedicated physician committed to making a positive impact in underserved communities, we encourage you to apply for this opportunity. We offer competitive compensation packages, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.
Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Internal Medicine, General
Through our four sites in Little Village (South Lawndale), Marquette Park (Chicago Lawn), and Brighton Park, this Community Health Center provides bilingual, high quality primary care, behavioral health and wellness services to the community, regardless of immigration status, insurance status, or ability to pay to over 20,000 patients each year from communities across the Southwest Side.
Our commitment to offering care of the highest quality is made clear by our designation as a National Quality Leader by HRSA in 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020, which ranks us among the top 3% of health centers in the nation and the top two in Illinois for our quality of care.
All full time providers and all clinical staff are bilingual.
Spanish speaking required.
Position is days, 40 hours per week.
Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner
This Community Health Center seeks a Spanish-speaking Nurse Practitioner to provide primary care services to patients in all life cycles in a medical home model. The Nurse Practitioner will prevent disease, help patients learn about healthy choices, and treat disease and illness.
This Community Health Center (CHC) primarily serves the Chicago communities of Austin, Belmont-Cragin, Dunning, East Garfield Park, Hermosa, Humboldt Park, Logan Square, Montclare, New City, North Lawndale, Portage Park, West Garfield Park, West Town, and the near west suburbs of Berwyn, Cicero, Maywood, Melrose Park, and Oak Park.
This CHC began in 1980 as the Parent Child Center, a three-room clinic at West Suburban Medical Center that offered prenatal, postpartum, and infant care for underserved residents of Chicago’s Austin community. In 1992, this CHC attained the status of a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) look-alike in 1994 and received full FQHC recognition in 2002. Since then, we have grown to encompass thirteen health centers, serving West Side Chicago and the near west suburbs.
Most of our sites are family health centers, offering a full range of services for all ages. We also operate a medical clinic inside a respite shelter for people who are homeless, a school-based health center in Belmont-Cragin, a community farm in Austin, and northern Illinois’ only freestanding birth center, in Berwyn.
Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family
This Community Health Center provides quality, cost-effective healthcare to minority communities, the uninsured, and underinsured of Pilsen Little Village, including Primary Care, Behavioral Health, Dentistry, OB/GYN and Midwifery, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, and In-House Lab Services.
The Family Nurse Practitioner will:
- diagnose, treat and help prevent mental disorders in a community health center setting
- provide continuity of care to each patient
- collaborate with Medical providers
Schedule: 36 clinic hours per week, 5 days per week including one evening and every other Saturday
Location: Rockford, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family
POSITION SUMMARY: The Nurse Practitioner provides primary care services to children and/or adults as part of the provider team collaborating with licensed MD/DO physicians.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: This will include but is not limited to:
- Accountable for demonstrating the qualities outlined in the “Customer Service Standards of Excellence” program when interacting with patients, their families and friends, and fellow employees.
- Understand and comply with the Mission Statement and Vision Statement of the FQHC.
- Provide care and establish within the medical record problem lists, medication lists and records deemed necessary to longitudinally follow the patient.
- Collaborate and consult when necessary with patients, families, support staff, providers, internal and external consultants in order to provide the appropriate high level care.
- Deliver medical care under the direction of a primary supervising physician and secondary supervisory physician staff. Use appropriate protocols, guidelines, and agreed upon references and clinical care understandings. Care may be provided at any program or site at the FQHC.
- Assume responsibility of patient continuity of care.
- Participate in health promotion and disease prevention activities for all patients.
- Participate in quality improvement and assurance activities.
- Attend mandatory staff meetings and in-services.
- Complete records to the detail deemed necessary by regulatory agencies and in a timely fashion.
- Attend and participate in FQHC activities.
- Embrace and support health care change.
- Aid in the construction of a collaborative work environment.
- Maintains an adequate amount of continued medical education credits to meet licensure, hospital medical staff, health plan and skill sets necessary to provide a high level of care to patients.
- Other duties as assigned by the CEO or CMO or his/her designee to meet the goal of providing excellent health care.
- To strictly adhere to the FQHC Community Health Policies.