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Cook Children's Medical/Surgical PICU, in Fort Worth, Texas, is currently recruiting for a Pediatric Critical Care Specialist to join our Critical Care Medicine Department in our Level 1 PICU. Candidates must be board certified/eligible in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, be licensed/licensable to practice in Texas, and have superior clinical and interpersonal skills.
The Intensivists provide 24/7 in-house coverage, partnered with experienced acute care pediatric nurse practitioners. Our team admits approximately 2200 patients per year, and over 25 pediatric subspecialties actively support the PICU. We care for a diverse patient population including kidney transplant, bone marrow transplant, and neurosurgical patients. We collaborate with the pediatric surgical team in care of trauma patients, and our hospital is designated a pediatric Level II trauma center. Cook Children's hospital has an active ECMO program (VV and VA) and has consistently been named an ECMO Center of Excellence.
Cook Children's Hospital has an active NeuroPICU within our unit that admits approximately 600 patients per year. We have a dedicated Neurocritical Care service that includes teams from Neurosurgery, Neurology, Neuroradiology, Rehabilitation Services and Critical Care. Each intensivist on our team participates as an active member of the Neurocritical Care team.
Of note, our Cardiac ICU is a separate department, and this position will not include rotation through the Cardiac ICU.
Cook Children's Health Care System is one of the country's leading vertically-integrated pediatric health care organizations. Cook Children's represents an award-winning, not-for-profit system of seamless health care designed to fulfill our Promise; “Knowing that every child's life is sacred, it is the Promise of Cook Children's to improve the health of every child through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.” Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Cook Children's primary referral region includes Collin, Denton, Hood, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant and Wise counties, and the integrated system has more than 60 primary, specialty and urgent care offices throughout Texas, and has served hundreds of international patients, as well as those from all 50 states. Cook Children's Health Care System is comprised of a medical center, physician network, home health company, pediatric surgery center, health plan, Child Study Center, Health Services, Inc., and health foundation.
The medical center has 444 pediatric beds and treats infants, children, teens and young adult patients ages 0-21 throughout Texas, as well as nationally and internationally. At nearly 1.6 million square feet, the campus serves as the main site of Cook Children's Health Care System. This includes the medical center, Dodson specialty clinics and north and south inpatient towers. In addition to the main Fort Worth campus, other Cook Children's locations include multiple regional specialty clinics, urgent care centers, neighborhood clinics, primary care offices, surgery centers and home health offices. In 2019, Cook Children's expanded to provide services to families in Prosper, Texas. To date, services offered include primary care, ambulatory surgery, urgent care, specialty care, imaging and outpatient laboratory services. A medical center and retail pharmacy are scheduled to open in 2022.
Fort Worth and the surrounding Tarrant County area are consistently ranked among the best places to work and live. With a population of over 1.8 million people, it surprises many visitors and newcomers with the friendliness of a small town and the amenities of our nation's largest cities. The city offers everything found in a modern metropolitan community—an abundance of the arts, quality health care, excellence in education, great professional sports, and many outdoor activities.
Cook Children's is an EOE/AA, M/F/Disability/Vet.
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