Pediatrics - Moses Cone Hospital and Women's & Children's Center

Facility Description

As Cone Health’s flagship, The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital is a Level 2 trauma center and is a 628-bed teaching hospital and referral center. It is the largest and most comprehensive medical center within our 5-county region, with a close affiliation with the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), renovated in March 2016, is a 4-bed unit that can be flexed to 6 beds. the PICU serves the critical care needs of medical, surgical, and trauma pediatric patients.

Cone Health offers a Level III 36-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) located at the Women’s Hospital. Additionally, the Women's and Children's Center programs and services include:

• 6000 deliveries performed each year
• High-risk obstetrical program
• Maternal and infant specialists
• Breastfeeding consultants for inpatient and outpatient consultation

Our well-developed family-centered model of care places strong emphasis on clinical services, quality care, and program growth. Pediatric subspecialties include asthma/allergy, genetics, neonatology, pediatric cardiology, pediatric critical care, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric neurology, pediatric psychology and pediatric surgery. 

In addition, Cone Health as a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, is also part of the federally funded public service student loan forgiveness program. Working in the nonprofit sector offers a unique benefit to federal student loan borrowers. Under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, student loan borrowers who work full time at certain nonprofits may be eligible to get the remainder of their loans erased.

Community Description

Greensboro https://www.visitgreensboronc.com/ is a progressive city of over 290,000 people in a catchment area greater than 500,000 people. It offers 5 colleges/universities, an annual 5-week classical music festival (The Eastern Music Festival), Greensboro Symphony, and hosts many nationally acclaimed sporting and entertainment events. There are excellent schools and a wide variety of first-class restaurants. Greensboro is about 2 hours from the Blue Ridge Mountains and close to 4 hours from the ocean. With so much to do, Greensboro is an excellent place to live, work, and play.

The Greensboro and surrounding NC area was ranked #14 "Best Big City" in the US for having high salaries, affordable cost of living and a great job market for physicians and surgeons for 2016 https://www.goodcall.com/data-center/2016-best-places-physicians-and-surgeons.