Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Children's Hospital and Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic’s 20+ pediatric specialties in Duluth, MN, provide highly specialized, regional pediatric care close to home.  We serve patients and families in Northern Minnesota, Western Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. This focus has allowed us to grow our unique services that include neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, a general pediatric unit and emergency department. Essentia Children’s offers a level of expertise not available anywhere else in the Northland. 

Essentia offers the region’s only Level IIIB NICU, pediatric hospitalist service, PICU, pediatric cancer center (Erick Peter Person Children’s Cancer Center), outpatient pediatric therapy center, inpatient pediatric rehabilitation unit, Level II Pediatric Trauma Center, and a pediatric behavioral health and substance abuse treatment center called Amberwing.   

Together with our child life specialists, social workers, neonatal and pediatric nurses, our dedicated team provides the highest quality of care in a friendly and comfortable environment. 

St. Mary's Children's Hospital is designated by the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NAHCRI) as a Children's Hospital within a hospital. 

PRACTICE SPECIFICS:

• Level IIIB NICU with 18 private rooms; average of 330 admissions/year; average daily census is 14 infants
• Join 4 MDs, 7 NNPs, and an outstanding nursing staff
• 24/7 in-house coverage
• Well established and collaborative relationship with Level IV NICUs in the Twin Cities are
• Strong OB physician and maternal fetal medicine support, including a 24/7 OB Hospitalist model
• Pediatric specialists and sub-specialists on staff including oncology/hematology, cardiology, neurology, anesthesia, and physical medicine and rehabilitation.
• Supporting member of NACHRI, committed to excellence in providing health care to children through clinical care, research, training and advocacy
• Strong, quality programming including participation in the Vermont Oxford Network (VON) database and quality initiatives
• Active Neonatal Transport Team serving MN, WI and MI

Ideal Candidate will have:

• Ability to work independently
• Experience in NICU preferred
• Desired skills include:  Intubation, chest tube insertion, NRP, invasive lines, ability to serve as leader of the neonatal transport team