Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Internal Medicine, General

Chicagoland FQHC is seeking a passionate and dedicated Internal Medicine 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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Patient Care: Conduct comprehensive health assessments, including physical examinations, ordering diagnostics, and developing individualized treatment plans.
• Prevention and Treatment: Emphasize disease prevention, health maintenance, and holistic patient wellness across all age groups.
• Collaborative Practice: Work in a team-based care model with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and allied health professionals, ensuring cohesive and integrated care.
• Community Focused: Engage in outreach, patient education, and preventive care initiatives to reduce health disparities within the community.
• Documentation: Accurately document all patient interactions, diagnoses, treatments, and follow-up care in an electronic health record (EHR) system.
• Quality Improvement: Participate in quality improvement initiatives, peer review, and evidence-based practice updates to continuously elevate patient care standards.

Competencies: Physicians at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) require a unique set of competencies to effectively serve diverse and underserved populations.

• Clinical Expertise in Primary Care
  • Proficiency in diagnosing and managing a broad spectrum of medical conditions across all age groups.
  • Ability to perform comprehensive physical examinations, interpret diagnostic tests, and develop individualized treatment plans.

Cultural Competence and Sensitivity

• Understanding and respecting diverse cultural backgrounds, beliefs, and practices. Ability to communicate effectively with patients from various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, ensuring language barriers are addressed. Interdisciplinary Collaboration Experience working within multidisciplinary teams, including nurses, social workers, behavioral health specialists, and community health workers.
• Ability to coordinate care and collaborate on treatment plans to provide holistic patient care.

Commitment to Health Equity and Advocacy

• Dedication to addressing healthcare disparities and improving health outcomes for underserved populations.
• Advocating for patients' needs within the healthcare system and supporting initiatives that reduce barriers to care.

Adaptability and Resilience

• Flexibility to adapt to varying patient volumes, resource limitations, and evolving healthcare environments.
• Resilience in managing complex cases and navigating the challenges inherent in community health settings.

Location: Granite City, IL - Specialty: Internal Medicine, General

Job Description:

• Preventive Care: Provide preventive care services, including routine check-ups, immunizations, and health education to promote overall wellness.
• Coordination of Care: Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to coordinate patient care and refer patients to specialists when necessary.
• Record Keeping: Maintain detailed and accurate medical records of patients' histories, treatments, and progress.
• Patient Education: Educate patients and their families about managing chronic diseases, lifestyle changes, and preventive health measures.
• 40 hours per week.

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

Loan repayment opportunities through National Health Service Corps!

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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

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, 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: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

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: 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:

1. 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.
2. Understand and comply with the Mission Statement and Vision Statement of the FQHC.
3. Provide care and establish within the medical record problem lists, medication lists and records deemed necessary to longitudinally follow the patient.
4. Collaborate and consult when necessary with patients, families, support staff, providers, internal and external consultants in order to provide the appropriate high level care.
5. 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.
6. Assume responsibility of patient continuity of care.
7. Participate in health promotion and disease prevention activities for all patients.
8. Participate in quality improvement and assurance activities.
9. Attend mandatory staff meetings and in-services.
10. Complete records to the detail deemed necessary by regulatory agencies and in a timely fashion.
11. Attend and participate in FQHC activities.
12. Embrace and support health care change.
13. Aid in the construction of a collaborative work environment.
14. 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.
15. Other duties as assigned by the CEO or CMO or his/her designee to meet the goal of providing excellent health care.
16. To strictly adhere to the FQHC Community Health Policies.

Location: Addison, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

The Nurse Practitioner provides quality care to those patients assigned to them that are consistent with guidelines contained within the quality management, risk management, infection control, customer service and safety programs for the FQHC. Location qualifies for NHSC student loan repayment. As a family medicine NP provides health care services on site and via telehealth to patients under the general direction of a licensed Physician if NP does not have full practice authority

Location: Chicago, IL - Specialty: Nurse Practitioner, Family

A rapidly growing and dynamic healthcare organization dedicated to providing high-quality, accessible healthcare services to our community. We are in the application process to become a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). We are seeking a NP, specializing in female health with sensitivity toward Orthodox Jewish female adults.  

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understanding and willingness to deliver care in a primary care setting.
• Guide and assist in all aspect of primary care medicine including:
  • Preventative medical care
  • Psychosocial needs Acute medical care
  • Diagnostics
  • Treatment
  • Consultation
  • Patient education
• Function independently to perform:
  • Age-appropriate history and physical patient exams
  • Engage in the above for acute and chronic illnesses.
  • Recognize critical illness and notify the appropriate entities.
• Collaborate with supervising physician as needed.
• Prescribe appropriate pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments.
• Implement interventions in attempts at restoring patient’s desired physiologic status.
• Monitor effectiveness of interventions
• Make efforts to correctly diagnose common and less common ailments.
• Investigates clinical problems and offers sound medical solutions.
• Communication: Communicates effectively with other healthcare team members, patient, family members and healthcare designees
• Procedures: Performs procedures utilizing medically approved approaches and equipment appropriate to the patient's age and size
• Patient Education: Provides information and instructions at a level of understanding appropriate to the comprehension level of the patient and/or significant others.
• Actively participates in Quality Improvement activities.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear, sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, stand, walk, walk up and down stairs, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.