Community Health Center / FQHC Psychiatry: General Job in East Chicago, Indiana
This psychiatry position in East Chicago, Indiana is offered as an employed role within a community health center/FQHC setting, one of the practice structures available for this opening. As is typical of safety-net practice, you would serve patients in a federally supported clinic environment as a straight employee, with the financial offering listed as Open.
The listing includes loan assistance and a training stipend, which may support physicians weighing the practical trade-offs of community-focused medicine against other employed options. Call responsibilities are structured with a patient/internal call rotation of 1:6 or better, and there is no emergency department call associated with this role.
- Board Certified or Board Eligible
- MD or DO training, including American Medical Graduates and Foreign Medical Graduates
- US Citizens or Green Card holders
- Open to candidates currently in training through very experienced physicians
- Located in a community of 100,000–499,999 residents
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Psychiatry: General
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: No
- Structure of Position: Employed by Hospital/Clinic/MSO/Other, Community Health Center/FQHC
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: 1:6 or better
- Expected ER Call Coverage: No call
Practice opportunity with a large community health center located in East Chicago, IN area. They a looking to hire an adult psychiatrist on a permanent full-time basis. The position details are as follows: Adult Psychiatrist • Primarily outpatient care • 36 hours per week • Light call schedule • Comfortable with EMR is preferred • Generous salary offered • Comprehensive benefits package including CME and loan Repayment The organization is not-for-profit, comprehensive mental health center located in Northwest Indiana and just under an hour away from downtown Chicago. The practice is part of private non-profit health centers that have successful served Indiana for over 35 years. The staff consist of approximately 450 employees. The medical staff has 11 full time psychiatrists 8 adult and 3 child and adolescent psychiatrist. State of the art evidence based treatment. They have access to special state funding to support care of chronically mentally ill. The organization received a grant for $2M from SAMHSA to improve health outcomes in our severely mental ill core clientele.
- Structure of Financial Support: Straight Employment
- Financial Offering: Open
- Compensation Range: $212,530 - $392,169 per year
- Relocation Allowance: Negotiable
- Signing Bonus: Negotiable
- Stipends: Yes
- Student Loan Assistance: Yes
- Practice State: Indiana
- Practice City: East Chicago
- Community Size: 100,000 - 499,999
- Community Details: Registered Candidates Only
- Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
- Medical Training Type: Allopathic (MD), Osteopathic (DO)
- Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible
- Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card
- Preferred Experience Level: Currently In Training, Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Facility Type: Clinic
- Number of Providers: 11
- Agency: Elite Health Source, Inc.
