SIH Breaks Ground on Medical Clinic

SIH BREAKS GROUND ON MEDICAL CLINIC

Medical clinic, teaching facility to house family medicine, PA programs

In June, representatives from Southern Illinois Healthcare and SIU Medicine broke ground on the 40,000 square foot building at 300 West Oak Street in Carbondale.

The Family Medicine Professional Office Building will include the Family Medicine practice and also the Physician Assistant Program.

The family medicine clinic will be located on the first floor and will include 32 exam rooms (seven will be professional development lab rooms that can easily be converted to patient exam rooms) and one sports medicine procedure room. Staff offices and out-patient labs also will be housed there.

The SIU PA program and offices will encompass the second floor with a 2,500 square-foot conference room that can be separated into three smaller rooms. State of the art equipment includes pointof-care ultrasound and three synthetic cadavers.

The growth of SIU family medicine and PA programs provided the impetus for the clinic. The SIU Family Medicine program

started inside Memorial Hospital of Carbondale in 1974 and in 1995 moved to the second floor of the professional building. The program has steadily outgrown the space. In the past decades, the family medicine residency program has increased the number of residents from 4 to 6 per year and has added faculty and a sports medicine program.

SIU is a hub site for 8 Phase 2 PA students, and 8 Kirksville Osteopathic medical students for their entire third and fourth year clinical rotations. The program houses several other learners and educational events throughout the year.

Data show that the partnership with SIH keeps young medical professionals in southern Illinois. Sixty percent of the residents and 68 percent of the PAs trained choose to practice in a rural location.

Speaking at the groundbreaking event: Mike Henry, Mayor, City of Carbondale Rex Budde, President & CEO, Southern

Illinois Healthcare Bart Millstead, Chief Operating Officer, Southern Illinois Healthcare Dr. Jerry Kruse, Dean and Provost, SIU School of Medicine Dr. Quincy Scott, Professor & Director, SIU Family & Community Medicine Residency, Carbondale

Don Diemer, Associate Professor and Program Director, Physician Assistant Program

Dr. Janet Albers, Professor & Chair, Family & Community Medicine, Springfield

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