Pediatric Hospitalist in Prosper, Texas

Cook Children’s Medical Center – Prosper is actively seeking a Pediatric Hospitalist to launch our new medical center in Prosper, Texas.  Candidates must be board certified/board eligible in their specialty and able to secure an unrestricted Texas medical license.

At Cook Children’s, you’ll work for the most important people in the world: kids. We’re driven by a Promise to improve the well-being of every child in our care and our communities. We focus on creating positive experiences for families and our employees.

To elevate every experience, we believe everyone should feel like family, team members included. You’ll be surrounded by colleagues who consider their work a calling – one that inspires them to perform at their highest level because they understand the impact they have on the lives of others. 

We value every person for who they are and adjust our view to see the world through their eyes. We embrace togetherness because we’re stronger together than we are as individuals, and we add magic to the moments that matter.

Designed with the child in mind, our newest campus, Cook Children’s Medical Center – Prosper, is uniquely positioned just 35 miles north of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas. Our Prosper campus already includes primary and urgent care locations as well as a surgery center and endoscopy suite. The medical center, opening in late 2022, will make Cook Children’s presence and excellence even more convenient to families in a growing part of our primary service area. 

Key highlights:

• Joining more than 30 pediatricians and 18 specialty physicians who already support the Prosper campus.
• Collaborating with specialties such as cardiology, endocrinology, neurology and neurosurgery, pulmonology, psychology, sports medicine and urology.
• New construction of a 10-bed Emergency Department, 10 pediatric intensive care beds, 14 medical/surgical beds, two operating rooms, two endoscopy suites, an infusion center and transport services via our Teddy Bear Transport program.
• Infrastructure in anticipation of future expansion, with the shell space of two floors to accommodate additional inpatient beds at the medical center.

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.

Medical Center Details:

• 477 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 and the surrounding communities.
• To date, services offered include primary care, ambulatory surgery, urgent care, specialty care, imaging and outpatient laboratory services.
• Cook Children's Prosper Medical Center and retail pharmacy opened January 2023.

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 free standing, pediatric hospital in North Texas, and the 10th in the world, to receive this prestigious designation.

Cook Children’s is an EOE/AA, M/F/Disability/Vet

To be considered as a candidate, please fill out an online application.  You will find the application by clicking here and then clicking on a link asking you to "log in now" towards the bottom of the page.  Then just click "register" and fill out the forms that will follow.