Excellent Opportunity to Practice Community Primary Care in Byron IL! Close to Chicago and Rockford!

Mercyhealth is seeking BC/BE Primary Outpatient Care Physicians to join our expanding practice In Byron IL! Close to Chicago, Milwaukee, and Madison!

This is the perfect opportunity to practice community health care in a small town with a BIG heart! Rural community waiting to embrace their primary care doctor! 

Multiple Opportunities!

Mercyhealth is an award-winning, multi-regional, integrated health system comprising of 7 hospitals, more than 700 employed physicians, over 85 outpatient clinics and other service sites that provide care to residents in more than 55 communities throughout northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. We provide over 125 specialty and sub-specialty services, including adult and pediatric critical care, neonatal intensive care, neurosurgery, heart and vascular care, cancer care, plastic and reconstructive surgery, Da Vinci robotic surgery and much more.

The Rockford region admitting hospital is Mercyhealth Javon Bea Hospital, which is a Comprehensive Stroke Center and an ACS designated Level I Adult Trauma Center, Level III NICU, with advanced operating and surgery suites, including hybrid operating suites that provide physicians with real-time radiographic capabilities while performing surgery all-in-one surgical suite.

Opportunity:

• Craft YOUR practice! We support and promote the private practice model as an employed Physician.
• The Byron community is eager to embrace their community physicians with a warm, friendly, and compliant patient climate.
• Walk into a FULL panel of patients with the support of collaborating Physicians, Midlevel’s, Nurses, and Operational Leaders.
• Typically, 4-4.5 days per week
• Flexible work life balance
• Minimal call shared with the Rockford Region Family Medicine Physicians
• No restrictions on procedures – build the practice to your specifications
• Vast multi-subspecialty referral sources in the region
• EPIC EMR.
• Additional Opportunities Available - Please also see our ad or inquire about all of our Full Time Primary Care and Family Medicine Faculty opportunities.

 Qualifications:

• MD/DO Board Certified or Board Eligible
• Residency training from an ACGME accredited program.
• The ability to communicate clearly and work as a member of a team.
• A passion to make lives better
• Skilled at providing exceptional care

Compensation & Benefits:

Mercyhealth offers a highly competitive initial salary guarantee (based on MGMA guidelines) leading to a production-based model after the first year, along with an outstanding benefits package:

• Paid CME, malpractice, and licensure
• Relocation assistance and sign on bonus
• Paid membership and medical association dues
• Excellent benefits package including health, dental, vision, disability, and retirement program.
• Short – Term & Long – Term Disability
• Loan forgiveness eligible
• NEW day one 403(b) matching.
• NEW paid parental and care giver leave.

Community:

Byron Illinois: Byron is a modern urban community with a friendly rural character. Byron is a small, close-knit community of 3,750, with a beautiful riverfront, an award-winning golf course, many parks and excellent schools. Byron is located in northern Illinois along the Rock River, 88 miles west of Chicago and 12 miles south of Rockford, Illinois. With its surrounding beauty and friendly people, Byron is a wonderful place to live and work.

Home of the Byron Tigers, the community takes great pride in their school system, which offers exceptional educational opportunities with strong academics and a wide variety of extra-curricular activities.

Rockford Illinois is the third-largest city in the state of Illinois. Settled on the banks of the Rock River, Rockford is notable for its economic diversification into automotive, aerospace, and healthcare industries, as well as the undertaking of various tourism and downtown revitalization efforts.

Rockford is known for various venues of cultural or historical significance, including Anderson Japanese Gardens, Klehm Arboretum, the Coronado Theater, and the Burpee Museum of Natural History. Rockford has been recognized as one of the most affordable housing markets in the nation less than an hour and a half drive from downtown Chicago and Milwaukee and less than an hour from Madison, Wisconsin.

At Mercyhealth Byron, passion drives everything we do to deliver medical excellence with a compassionate touch to everyone who walks through our doors. Passion inspires our doctors, nurses, technicians and support staff to do whatever it takes to make you feel better and keep you well. Nothing is ever too small or taken for granted. Everything matters. Every little thing.