North Memorial Health – Robbinsdale Hospital

Prevent, detect, treat. Our North Memorial Health Cancer Center has been providing premier cancer care for more than 40 years. Our careful, experienced plans, coupled with our interest in clinical trials and ongoing education, put us at the forefront for quality cancer treatment. In fact, our North Memorial Breast Center patient surveys consistently return a 100 percent willingness to recommend our facilities and services to others.

Child and family life specialists are members of the healthcare team that empower children, adolescents and their families when coping with challenging experiences related to illness, injury and hospitalization. North – Robbinsdale Hospital’s child life team is here to provide age-appropriate play and activities, facilitate healing, coping, and self-expression to children and their families. Our specialists strive to meet the emotional, developmental and psychosocial needs of all patients and family members.

Reasons to contact child life services:

• Empower children to better understand an illness or injury
• Help the parent or caregiver and child better understand any upcoming surgery, procedure, treatment or new diagnosis
• Teach the parent or caregiver and child coping strategies to help through a difficult procedure or treatment
• Help children understand and cope with the illness, injury or death of a family member or friend
• Enable children to be more comfortable with the hospital experience through activities and play
• Support children and families who are experiencing the death of a loved one through education, resources, and engaging in memory making

Call 763-581-3780 to learn more.

Our Level I Trauma Center makes us a leader in trauma care. Our team and technology tackle the most challenging cases, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you are experiencing a sudden onset of severe symptoms, such as chest pain, confusion or slurred speech, suicidal feelings, or uncontrolled bleeding, please go to the emergency room or call 911 immediately.

North Memorial Health provides best in class Heart & Vascular care. When you need care STAT, we are here with one of the fastest response times in the nation for heart attack. And, when you need comprehensive care that empowers you to achieve your best health, we offer long-term care from a cardiac team that partners with you every step of the way.

We are the team that is completely dedicated to your hospital care and experience. Consider us your primary-care provider of the hospital: at your bedside, day or night, helping you make the best, most informed decisions about your care.

When your care team orders specialized tests or procedures to help develop a diagnosis and care plan with you, our imaging teams are there to give you the inside scoop. From inpatient to outpatient, CT to X-ray, we will help give you and your care team a totally new perspective.

Our Infectious Disease team tackles the evaluation, counseling, and treatments of complicated infections or immunologic disease, such as HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, viral hepatitis, travel-related illness, and more. But we treat more than just your infection—we listen to all your facts, fears, and experiences to help you create a plan that will address all the factors that critically affect your health.

When your care team needs tests or procedures to get a clearer picture of your case, we can provide the counts, numbers, points, and scores of some of your smallest, yet most hardest-working parts.

Preconception to postpartum, maternal-fetal medicine (or perinatology) offers the highest level of care for women and their babies in high-risk situations. We provide prenatal diagnoses and services to families with babies who have risk factors for genetic, growth, and structural differences.

North Memorial Health’s Mental Health Center experts are ready and waiting to meet you where you are in your journey with short waits, coordinated care among a team of specialists, and evidence-based practices for serious and persistent mental illness, post-traumatic stress and addiction.

Our interdisciplinary team of physicians, advance practice nurses, clinical social workers, and chaplains collaborate with you as you face serious illness, with the ultimate goal of alleviating your symptoms and giving you the best possible quality of life as you receive treatment.

Our partnership with Minnesota Neonatal Physicians allows for around-the-clock expert neonatal care at North Memorial Health Hospital.

Our outpatient pharmacy has experts who will work with both you and your care provider to get you the medication you need when you visit the doctor or our hospital. We make sure your prescriptions are working and safe, answer your questions.

Because becoming a family should be a safe, healthy, joyous event. Our Family Birth Center believes all births are natural, regardless of the techniques or ways a baby arrives into the world. Enjoy large labor suites outfitted with bubble tubs. And experience an unmatched staff, including award–winning, IBCLC-certified lactation care, a 24/7 neonatal nurse practitioner, and a 24/7 in-house obstetrician. We also have the facilities and technology needed for more complex births, including maternal-fetal medicine, and a Level II NICU.

Pediatric to geriatric, inpatient to outpatient, talking to walking: Consider our team of more than 90 therapists the literal and figurative shoulder you can lean on to get you back to your life. Our programs are highly comprehensive, from eating/swallowing/sensory therapy in the NICU to addressing mobility after a fall.

We’re overachievers when it comes to comprehensive stroke care: We’re fast, we’re thorough, and we offer the latest treatment options. We also consistently exceed the national guidelines for care. That’s why we have been recognized nationally with the Gold Plus Achievement Award, and as a Comprehensive Stroke Center by Det Norske Veritas. We also were the first hospital in Minnesota to implement stringent data and analysis to improve our care, and we contribute to national research through the National Institute of Health and industry-funded trials.

Confident, capable, and patient-focused: When life hands you complicated situations, we are at our best. From removing an appendix to reattaching a limb, we can immediately assemble an unbeatable team with the technology and expertise that can only come from a Level I Trauma Center.

Trauma isn’t just what happens at the scene of the accident or in the critical moments you spend in the emergency room. Our comprehensive trauma team becomes your co-pilot through your whole healing journey, from from the time of your injury until you return to your life. The resources that the North Memorial Health Hospital’s Level I Trauma Center offers means we have a solid system in place to give you the fastest care, in the right place, at the right time.