Overview

Mercyhealth, an award-winning fully integrated health care delivery organization based in Wisconsin and Illinois, is seeking an experienced Certified Nurse Midwife to join our Maternal Fetal Medicine team at our new, state of the art facility, Javon Bea Hospital - Riverside in Rockford, IL.

Mercyhealth’s Mission – “Exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better.” Touching lives invigorates, inspires and drives us to do our very best, and we continuously look for ways to make each life better with the utmost care and professionalism

Opportunity:

• Provide patient care and education to an assigned caseload of maternal fetal medicine patients in accordance with established midwifery practice guidelines
• Educate midwifery, medical and nursing students, and nursing and resident staff in normal childbirth.
• Collaborate with experienced Maternal Fetal Medicine specialists
• Hours: M-F, 8a-5p.
• This is a clinic-based position and will not include deliveries
• Our newly constructed $505 million-dollar specialty referral hospital along I-90 in Rockford features a women’s and children’s unit with neonatal and high-risk maternity care.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited Midwifery Program
• Current IL RN license
• Current IL APRN license
• Current DEA number
• Other certifications as required
• Previous Midwife experience required.

Compensation:

• Highly competitive compensation
• Sign-on bonus
• CME allowance
• Robust and comprehensive benefit package

Mercyhealth

Mercyhealth is a vertically integrated health care system in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois with approximately 800 physicians, 8,000 employees, 7 hospitals, 80 ambulatory locations; pharmacies, DME, Home Health, and an insurance company. We are large and growing, but we treat our physicians and employees as family.

Community

Rockford 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 Theatre, 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.