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Children’s Mercy Kansas City is seeking certified/board eligible general pediatricians to join the Division of Critical Care as PICU Hospitalists.

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About the position:

• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is a 43 bed medical/surgical intensive care unit.
• Join one of 3 intensivist led teams and be responsible for the direct provision of clinical care.
• Night call responsibilities will be supported by 24/7 in house attending intensivist presence.
• The division cares for high acuity and high complexity patients with a variety of diagnosis that include acute respiratory failure, sepsis, acute kidney injury, trauma, neurocritical care diagnoses, solid organ transplantation, and bone marrow transplantation.
• In addition to the provision of common critical care therapies, the ICU has an active extracorporeal therapy program with access to continuous renal replacement therapy, apheresis, ventricular assist devices, and an ECMO program that commonly exceeds 30 cases annually.
• Opportunities to engage in academic activities such as quality and process improvement initiatives within the ICU, educational and professional development opportunities, and engagement with the many trainees that comprise our clinical and academic environment.

The ideal candidate will have had training or experience in a similar intensive care environment, function well in a high volume/high acuity situations and demonstrate an ability for effective collaboration in our multi-professional team model of care. The successful applicant must share our unwavering commitment to excellence, integrity, collegiality, antiracism, and respect for inclusion of individuals with diverse backgrounds.

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Benefits include:

• Onsite health clinic and pharmacy for employees
• Employee discount on Children's Mercy medical services
• Wellness programs
• Onsite child care and back-up care options
• Pet insurance
• Employee resource groups
• Training programs and tuition assistance

About Children's Mercy Kansas City

Children’s Mercy Kansas City is an independent, non-profit, 390-bed pediatric health system, providing over half a million patient encounters each year for children from across the country. Children’s Mercy is ranked by U.S. News & World Report in nine specialties. We have received Magnet® recognition five times for excellence in nursing services. In affiliation with the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Kansas, our faculty of nearly 800 pediatric specialists and researchers are actively involved in clinical care, pediatric research and educating the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists.

The Children’s Mercy Research Institute (CMRI) integrates research and clinical care with nationally recognized expertise in genomic medicine, precision therapeutics, population health and health care innovation. In 2021, the CMRI moved into a nine story, 375,000 square foot space emphasizing a translational approach to research in which clinicians and researchers work together to accelerate the pace of discovery that enhances care.