{"id":1222,"date":"2019-08-12T21:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T21:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2025-07-14T20:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:29:10","slug":"peds-629-pediatric-neonatal-intensive-care-unit-nicu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/peds-629-pediatric-neonatal-intensive-care-unit-nicu\/","title":{"rendered":"PEDS 629 &#8211; Pediatric Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) &#8211; Missoula, MT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&#8217;s <strong>Missoula<\/strong> lies at the bottom of what once was&nbsp;Glacial Lake Missoula, a 3,000-square-mile proglacial lake&nbsp;which stretched from 60 miles (97&nbsp;km) south and east of Missoula north to today&#8217;s&nbsp;Flathead Lake&nbsp;and west to Idaho&#8217;s&nbsp;Lake Pend Oreille. Held in place by a glacial dam, this lake&nbsp;drained and refilled repeatedly&nbsp;over 2,000 years during the past Ice Age. When the flood waters cleared, the resultant Missoula Valley became a geographic hub of five mountain valleys formed by the&nbsp;Bitterroot Mountains,&nbsp;Sapphire Range,&nbsp;Garnet Range,&nbsp;Rattlesnake Mountains, and Reservation Divide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitymed.org\/\">Community Medical Center<\/a><u><br><\/u><\/strong>2827 Fort Missoula Road<br>Missoula, MT\u00a0 59804<br>P: (406) 728-4100<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Site Director<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:kwtolsma@communitymed.org\">Kristi Tolsma, MD<\/a><br>P: (406) 728-4100<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u><br>Regional Office Administrator<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jasulliv@uw.edu\">Judi Sullivan<\/a><br>P: (208) 957-6309<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u><br>Credentialing<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This site <strong><u>requires current TB testing<\/u><\/strong>.&nbsp;Please ensure you are aware of this and comply with site requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regional office will contact you via email 6-8 weeks prior to the start of your elective to compete required forms. If you need additional regional assistance, or have questions about your rotation, please contact <a href=\"mailto:jasulliv@uw.edu\">Judi Sullivan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Schedule<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the first day, you will meet at 7:30AM at the provider office located at the NICU. Any questions regarding your rotation can be sent to <a href=\"mailto:kwtolsma@communitymed.org\">Kristi Tolsma, MD<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about the NICU at Community Medical Center, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communitychildrens.org\/services\/nicu\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Missoula lies at the bottom of what once was&nbsp;Glacial Lake Missoula, a 3,000-square-mile proglacial lake&nbsp;which stretched from 60 miles (97&nbsp;km) south and east of Missoula north to today&#8217;s&nbsp;Flathead Lake&nbsp;and west to Idaho&#8217;s&nbsp;Lake Pend Oreille. Held in place by a glacial dam, this lake&nbsp;drained and refilled repeatedly&nbsp;over 2,000 years during the past Ice Age. When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ef","category-montana","category-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwpeds\/wwami\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}