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.
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.
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.
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.