John Muir Health Partnership

Overview

With the success of our first 10 years bringing high-quality pediatric specialty care to East Bay families, John Muir Health and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health recently extended our partnership to 2032. We’re proud to offer 20+ Stanford Medicine Children’s Health pediatric specialists and services, close to home for families in Contra Costa County and surroundings communities, with specialty locations in Brentwood, Livermore, and Walnut Creek; orthopedics in Pleasant Hill; and neurology in Pleasant Hill.

When a hospital service or stay is required close by, most surgeries and procedures can be conveniently performed by a team including Stanford Medicine Children’s Health specialists, at John Muir Health’s Walnut Creek Medical Center; or, when necessary, your child can be treated at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, consistently honored as a top 10 children’s hospital in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report. 

We offer over 20+ pediatric specialties and services from some of the country’s top pediatric specialists without having to travel far from home.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

The John Muir Health Level III NICU, operating in partnership with Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, is well prepared to meet the special needs of your premature or ill baby. Neonatal intensivists, specialists, nurses, and staff are available around the clock to provide the nurturing, expert care for you and your newborn.

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)John Muir’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), also operating in collaboration with Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, features eight private rooms with in-room amenities to accommodate families who would like to stay overnight to remain close to their child. Certified by California Children’s Services (CCS), the PICU is staffed 24/7 by a multidisciplinary team of pediatric intensivists, nurses, respiratory therapists, and other specially trained pediatric critical care staff.

Pediatric and Neonatal Transport

Critical Care TransportFor critically injured and ill children at nearby community hospitals who need immediate, higher acuity care, our highly specialized Pediatric & Neonatal Critical Care Transport team—staffed with pediatric critical care nurses and pediatric respiratory therapists—is available to transport newborns and children, in a specially equipped pediatric ambulance with sophisticated technology designed just for kids, to the John Muir Health NICU and PICU to receive the lifesaving care they need, or to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford’s NICU, when deemed necessary.

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Stanford specialists have access to world-leading research and breakthrough innovation. Meet our newest physicians, who bring deep expertise and the very latest treatments to our John Muir Health partnership: cardiologist Lisa Arcilla, MD; pediatric sports medicine specialist, Arvind Balaji, MD; ear, nose, and throat specialist Jocelyn Kohn, MD; nephrologist Paul Grimm, MD; neurologist Sheila Jenkins, MD; neurosurgeon Cormac Maher, MD; endocrinologists Jennifer Ni, MD, and Priya Srivastava, MD; and the rest of our specialists, who are dedicated to providing your child with the best care close to home in Contra Costa County.

Video features Dr. Lisa Arcilla