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Pediatric Hospitalist / Newborn Nursery

Hartford HealthCare · Bridgeport, CT

Posted October 16, 2026

St. Vincent's Medical Center (Bridgeport) · 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT, US, 06606

  • Pay range: $112.31 – $152.69 per hour (about $234K – $318K a year full-time)
  • Practice site: St. Vincent's Medical Center, 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT
  • Schedule: Full Time
  • System: Hartford HealthCare, Connecticut’s most comprehensive health system

Shift Detail: 24 hours shifts

Bridgeport, CT – Pediatric Hospitalist/Newborn Nursery - Full-time

Join a collaborative, patient-centered team at Hartford HealthCare, where we support our physicians in their professional and work-life balance goals.

Location(s):

Hospital: St. Vincent’s Medical Center, 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06606-4201

Position details:

  • Full time, newborn nursery and hospital pediatric coverage

  • Schedule:

    • Six (6) weekday shifts and two (2) weekend shifts per four (4) week cycle
    • There are thirteen (13) cycles per year
    • Each shift is twenty-four (24) hours
    • For weekday shifts, physician must be on-site at the hospital between 5:00PM - 10:00AM of each twenty four (24) hour shift and available via phone between 10:00AM – 5:00PM
    • For weekend shifts, physician must be on-site at the hospital for the entire twenty-four (24) hour shift

    Hospital coverage includes rounding on newborns, attending c-sections (both scheduled and emergent), managing photo therapy, occasional pedi consults to E.D. or floors, and stabilization of newborns for transport

    Faculty opportunity with Quinnipiac University teaching med students Support from neonatologists 24/7

    No circumcisions

    Hospital averages over 1,000 deliveries annually

    Location:

    Located just minutes to New York City and two hours from Boston, we are in the heart of New England’s most stunning communities offering your family nationally acclaimed school systems, a choice to live at the shore, in vibrant urban areas, near a major university or in a Kiplinger “Top 10 Best City to Raise a Family” and Travel & Leisure’s “Coolest Suburb in America”.

    At Hartford HealthCare, Physicians enjoy:

    • Highly competitive compensation
    • Robust benefits including a generous 401K match, CME and paid time off
    • Loan repayment support
    • Generous Paid-Time Off
    • Reimbursement for CME, professional society membership, licensure, and malpractice
    • Opportunity to teach and precept students

    Qualifications

    The ideal candidate will possess:

    • A passion for providing patient-centered care to a pediatric patient population
    • A willingness to work closely and collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team
    • An unrestricted State of Connecticut Medical License (or eligible)
    • BC/BE in Pediatrics

    This is a salaried position. While compensation is presented as an hourly rate for consistency across our postings, this position is paid on a salary basis. The hiring range reflects a good faith estimate of pay for this position as of the posting date. Actual pay will be determined based on qualifications, location, internal equity, and other factors that may include hire bonuses, incentive pay plans, loan repayment, administrative stipends, or relocation.

Employer

Hartford HealthCare

Hartford HealthCare is Connecticut's most comprehensive health system: eight acute-care hospitals, the state's largest behavioral health network, and more than 500 care locations, from Litchfield County to the Long Island Sound shoreline. Its physician-led Hartford HealthCare Medical Group, with more than 2,800 providers, is one of the largest multi-specialty groups in New England.

Hartford Hospital, the flagship, is an 867-bed tertiary and academic medical center and a major teaching hospital for the University of Connecticut. Community hospitals include The Hospital of Central Connecticut, MidState Medical Center, Backus Hospital, Charlotte Hungerford Hospital, Manchester Memorial Hospital and St. Vincent's Medical Center. Natchaug Hospital anchors behavioral health care in eastern Connecticut.

Physicians practice within system-wide institutes that set one standard of care in every community:

  • Heart & Vascular Institute
  • Cancer Institute, a strategic partner of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center since 2014
  • Ayer Neuroscience Institute
  • Tallwood Urology & Kidney Institute
  • Behavioral Health Network

Why physicians choose Hartford HealthCare:

  • Practice settings from academic and tertiary care to close-knit community and outpatient practices
  • Teaching, research and leadership development through the Physician Leadership Institute
  • Hospitals consistently recognized with Leapfrog "A" safety grades
  • Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
  • A lifestyle with New England character: coastal towns, rolling hills, strong schools, and easy reach of Boston and New York City

Livability

921,660
Bridgeport population
$341K
Avg 3-bedroom home
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Avg high / low
Nearby cities
Queens
44.3 mi
Pop. 2,405,464
Manhattan
49.4 mi
Pop. 1,694,263
Bronx
42.4 mi
Pop. 1,472,654
Source: US Census Bureau
Annual family budget — Greater Bridgeport County
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Housing, food, transport, healthcare, childcare & taxes for a typical family
$341K
Avg 3-bedroom home
$2,983
Avg monthly rent
Source: EPI Family Budget Calculator
Source: Zillow
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Yearly rainfall
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Sunny days / yr
Source: WeatherAPI.com
Population — ZIP 06606
54,125
Total residents
26,410
Male residents
27,715
Female residents
Age distribution
total
54,125
0-9
4,724
10-19
8,380
20-29
7,828
30-39
6,073
40-49
9,000
50-59
7,595
60-69
5,295
70-79
3,337
80+
1,893
Ethnicity
White
25,755
Black Or African American
11,093
American Indian Or Alaskan Native
163
Asian
4,395
Native Hawaiian Or Other Pacific Islander
0
Other
8,009
Two Or More
4,710
Source: US Census Bureau
Nearby airports
LaGuardia Airport (LGA) 45.87 mi
Tweed New Haven Airport (HVN) 17.08 mi
Westchester County Airport (HPN) 27.85 mi
Long Island Mac Arthur Airport (ISP) 29.36 mi
New York Stewart International Airport (SWF) 50.68 mi
Teterboro Airport (TEB) 50.99 mi
Source: FAA database
Pediatric Hospitalist / Newborn Nursery
Hartford HealthCare · Bridgeport, CT