Position Overview

Understanding the Role

Your Role in Serving Mini-Cassia's Healthcare Needs

Picture yourself arriving at work each morning at the Burley clinic, situated right across the parking lot from Cassia Regional Hospital on land donated specifically for Family Health Services' mission. You'll step into a practice where you're not just treating patients—you're becoming part of the healthcare fabric of a community that desperately needs your skills.

As a Family Medicine physician with OB capabilities, you'll serve the Mini-Cassia region, a catchment area of approximately 40,000 people in Southern Idaho. This is a community where access to comprehensive family medicine with obstetric care makes a profound difference. Many of your patients will be Spanish-speaking farm workers and their families who have limited healthcare options, making your role both challenging and deeply rewarding. Approximately 60–70% of your patient panel will be Hispanic, and Spanish language skills are highly valued—though not required, as the clinic has robust interpretation services.

Your practice will blend the best of both worlds: four days per week of clinic-based family medicine seeing patients of all ages—from delivering the babies to caring for them through childhood, adolescence, and into their adult years—combined with hospital-based care including deliveries and inpatient rounding. Unlike the fragmented care common in metropolitan settings, you'll have the satisfaction of providing true continuity of care, often seeing multiple generations of the same family.

What Your Week Looks Like

  • Clinical schedule: Four 8-hour days per week seeing patients in the clinic (6.5 hours of direct patient care daily)
  • Patient volume: 16–20 patients per day on average, though some days may see up to 25 depending on community needs
  • Hospital rounding: Morning rounds before clinic (typically 8–9 AM) on 1–5 inpatients, with flexibility to return during the day as needed
  • Deliveries: Approximately 30–40 deliveries annually (averaging 2–3 per month), delivering your own patients whenever possible
  • Administrative time: One day per week for charting, continuing education, and professional development—work from home once caught up
  • Call schedule: One week of call per month (Monday through Sunday evening) in a 1:4 rotation

Hospital Responsibilities

You'll round on Family Health Services patients admitted to Cassia Regional Hospital, typically managing 2–3 patients daily during your call week. The beauty of this system is that after 7:30 PM, a tele-nocturnist team handles new admissions (except ICU cases), dramatically reducing nighttime calls. When you are called overnight for an ICU admission, it's rare—perhaps a half-dozen times per year. During your non-call weeks, you focus entirely on your clinic patients and scheduled deliveries, creating a sustainable work-life balance that's increasingly rare in medicine today.

Qualifications and Experience

  • Required: MD or DO degree, current Idaho medical license (or eligibility), board certification or board eligibility in Family Medicine
  • OB Experience Required: Management of 36 deliveries during the previous 36 months
  • For OB Privileges: Malpractice insurance must specify OB/GYN coverage
  • Highly Desirable: Spanish language proficiency, though interpretation services are available
  • C-Section Capabilities: Not required but welcomed—hospital privileges may be available for qualified candidates

Leadership and Support Structure

You'll report to Dr. Basil Anderson, MD, Family Health Services' Medical Director, who has cultivated a physician-supportive environment where clinical autonomy is respected and administrative burdens are minimized. The organization is led by CEO Aaron Houston, known among providers for understanding physician needs and maintaining competitive compensation without micromanagement. As a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), FHS is governed by a patient-majority Board of Directors, ensuring that clinical decisions always prioritize patient care over profits.

This is not a replacement for a departing physician who left on negative terms—the previous provider's contract was not renewed after seven years, creating an opportunity for a new physician who embraces the full scope of family medicine including obstetrics. The practice is growing, and the remaining team is eager to welcome a colleague who shares their commitment to serving the underserved.

Why This Position Exists

The Burley clinic, along with its sister clinic in nearby Rupert, serves one of Idaho's most medically underserved populations. With a payer mix of approximately 40% self-pay, 30% Medicaid, and only 20% commercial insurance, these patients often have nowhere else to turn. Your role fills a critical gap in access to obstetric care—without physicians like you, many women in Mini-Cassia would face a two-hour drive to Boise or a 45-minute drive to Twin Falls just to deliver their babies. You'll have the professional satisfaction of knowing that your presence in this community directly improves maternal and infant health outcomes for hundreds of families each year.

Whether you're a new residency graduate looking to practice the full scope of your training, or an experienced physician seeking a practice with authentic community connection and excellent work-life balance, this position offers the increasingly rare opportunity to practice medicine the way it was meant to be—as a trusted partner in your patients' healthcare journey across their entire lifespan.

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