Jennifer Richards, MD

Jennifer Richards is a family physician at Real Family Medicine in Farmersville. She earned her medical degree from the University of Iowa in 1998, completed her family medicine residency there in 2001, and graduated from Central College in Pella, Iowa before that. She is licensed in Illinois, with Missouri and Iowa pending.

With 20 years of experience, Richards spent two decades in family practice at Springfield Clinic, including several years in prompt care, and has held medical director roles at multiple senior living and hospice facilities around Springfield. She now serves as medical director at Hands of God Hospice and as an associate professor of medicine at SIU, both in Springfield, Illinois.

Her practice covers preventative care, medication management and procedures such as mole removal, suturing, cryotherapy and joint injections, built around direct access to her, longer appointments and no insurance middleman through a monthly subscription covering basic primary care.