Pinckneyville Hospital Signs New Physician

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[ At a special meeting of the Board of the Pinckneyville Community Hospital on September 23, 2008, the Board approved a three year contract with Salva Bilal, M.D. who will be finishing her family practice residency at the Creighton University Family Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program in Omaha, Nebraska in June of 2009. She will join the staff at the Family Medical Center on August 1, 2009.

Dr. Bilal graduated from Fatima Jinnah Medical College in Pakistan in 1996 where she worked in primary care through 2005. She entered her current residency in July 2006.

Dr. Bilal, her husband and her two sons will be relocating to Pinckneyville in July of 2009 in preparation for her start of practice on August 1st.