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Cook Children’s Physician Network seeks to hire a Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician. Applicants must be eligible for licensure in the state of Texas and must be board eligible or board certified in Pediatric Infectious Disease.
Opportunity Highlights:
Join an 8-person infectious disease group consisting of 6 infectious diseases physicians, and two nurse practitioners. Our team provides a broad range of services including inpatient and outpatient consultations and patient care. This also includes management of hospitalized patients with infections in the pediatric, cardiac, and neonatal intensive care units. We participate in the care of patients who have undergone bone marrow and renal transplants as well. Our outpatient clinic includes those patients needing hospital follow up, those who have outpatient infections needing evaluation, and a large number of patients with chronic infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV.
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.
We are one of the nation's premier private children's health care systems and have consistently been ranked by U.S. News and World Report within the top 50 Best Children's Hospitals. One of Cook Children’s Medical Center’s most prestigious awards is being Magnet® designated, the international gold standard of nursing excellence, four consecutive times. This makes the medical center the first freestanding, pediatric hospital in North Texas, and the 10th in the world, to receive this prestigious designation.
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, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.
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Cook Children’s Physician Network seeks to hire a Pediatric Infectious Diseases Physician. Applicants must be eligible for licensure in the state of Texas and must be board eligible or board certified in Pediatric Infectious Disease.
Opportunity Highlights:
Join an 8-person infectious disease group consisting of 6 infectious diseases physicians, and two nurse practitioners. Our team provides a broad range of services including inpatient and outpatient consultations and patient care. This also includes management of hospitalized patients with infections in the pediatric, cardiac, and neonatal intensive care units. We participate in the care of patients who have undergone bone marrow and renal transplants as well. Our outpatient clinic includes those patients needing hospital follow up, those who have outpatient infections needing evaluation, and a large number of patients with chronic infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV.
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.
We are one of the nation's premier private children's health care systems and have consistently been ranked by U.S. News and World Report within the top 50 Best Children's Hospitals. One of Cook Children’s Medical Center’s most prestigious awards is being Magnet® designated, the international gold standard of nursing excellence, four consecutive times. This makes the medical center the first freestanding, pediatric hospital in North Texas, and the 10th in the world, to receive this prestigious designation.
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, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.
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About Cook Children's Health Care System
Promise, a strong word with deep meaning that everyone understands—especially kids. This is the foundation of our organization and what drives us to blaze new trails in medical care, research, advanced technology, as well as programs and initiatives that benefit children who may not otherwise have access to quality health care. Every day our employees come to work with the intention of keeping our Promise. It's the guiding principle that helps our patients and their families get better and stay healthy. As a member of our Cook Children's team, you can be an important part of making that happen. Cook Children's is an EOE/AA, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran employer.