Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner - Quincy IL

Our Behavioral Medicine service line seeks an additional PMHNP to join their established group! Remote candidates will be considered.

Currently new appointments are being booked 4-6  weeks out. This is a tight-knit group of providers with very little turnover.  They support one another in their day to day practices. 

Our Behavioral Medicine Department is robust with busy outpatient practices as well as inpatient services; two Adult inpatient units and one Child & Adolescent unit. The units are licensed for 41 beds as follows:  adult behavioral medicine has 10 beds, adult psychiatric service has 16 beds and the child and adolescent unit has 15 beds.  All rooms are semi-private or private and have outside windows.  The newer units have inpatient space, outpatient clinic space, and an indoor and outdoor gym.  There are restraint / seclusion rooms and cameras for monitoring.  The provider’s offices are located in an adjoining medical office building along with other Blessing providers. 

Blessing Health System employs almost 300 physicians and advanced practice providers.  Blessing is the largest medical provider serving a 300,000+ population region composed of West Central Illinois, Northeast Missouri, and Southeast Iowa.  The System operates Blessing Hospital, a 347-bed regional referral center in Quincy, Illinois, (population 45,000) and Illini Community Hospital, a 25-bed critical access facility in Pittsfield, Illinois, (population 4,200). 

Blessing Hospital, headquartered in Quincy, Illinois, is located on high limestone bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River near the westernmost point of Illinois.  Quincy is renowned for its natural beauty, preservation of its exceptional stock of Victorian Era homes, and its highly developed programs in the arts.  It has a highly diverse economic and employment base, and consistently has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Illinois.  It has been cited as one of the 50 top small arts communities in the U.S. and recently ranked in the top 10 best hometowns in America. 

The community also offers excellent public and parochial schools, a public 2-year community college, a private 4-year university, fine dining, expansive and well-developed parks, and abundant recreational facilities.

Quincy is located two hours from St. Louis, three and a half hours from Kansas City, and four hours from Chicago.  Daily flights connect Quincy’s Baldwin Field with Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Lambert International in St. Louis and Amtrak provides two round trips daily to Chicago.