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North Memorial Health – Robbinsdale Hospital
North Memorial Health – Robbinsdale Hospital
3300 Oakdale Ave. N.
Robbinsdale, MN 55422
Main Phone: 763-520-5200
Emergencies, call 911
Inpatient and emergency care services are offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Please note: Certain outpatient care services, administrative departments, and food and retail locations have regular business operating hours.
Welcome to North – Robbinsdale Hospital
Providing year-round, round-the-clock inpatient and emergency room care for more than 60 years has made North – Robbinsdale Hospital a healthcare industry leader, not just in our own Robbinsdale neighborhood, but across the metro. It is our joy and privilege to provide exemplary care to all.
Services & Programs Make a Donation
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Family Birth Center
Meet your baby face-to-face in the quiet, cozy, and extremely capable North – Robbinsdale Hospital Family Birth Center.
VISIT FAMILY BIRTH CENTER
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Wall of Heroes
North – Robbinsdale Hospital joins LifeSource in recognizing the gift of life and sight through inspiring stories shared by the families and friends of our donor heroes.
SEE OUR HEROES
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Robotic Surgery
A regional leader in robotic surgery, North – Robbinsdale Hospital offers minimally invasive robotic surgeries in bariatric and metabolic, cardiovascular, general and more.
LEARN ABOUT OUR SURGERY OPTIONS
Parking and Visitors
Parking
North – Robbinsdale Hospital provides a range of parking options including discounted parking passes and paid ramps.
- Main Hospital Ramp (P1): Hourly paid parking.
- Robbinsdale Medical Building Ramp (P2): Hourly paid parking.
- Discounted parking passes: Purchase at the pay station in the Main Hospital Ramp (P1) lobby on Plaza Level (PL).
- Oversized vehicle parking: Call the Safety & Security team at 763-581-2160 for help.
Visitors
Please only visit if you are healthy; visitors who have been sick or have tested positive for an illness such as COVID-19, influenza, or RSV in the last 10 days are not permitted in our hospital. Learn more about our visitor guidelines.
Rooms and Lodging
It is important to us that your stay is as comfortable as possible. We’ll maintain your privacy, clean your room, refresh your linens, give you control of your room’s thermostat, and are available at the push of a button for your questions. We also offer free Wi-Fi and iNvision education and entertainment on your television for your convenience.
Meals and Food
North – Robbinsdale Hospital offers up to 15 menus daily to cater to your personal dietary needs, including heart-healthy, low-sugar, and low-sodium. We serve meals from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., every day. Your guests can order a room-service meal for $8, or they are welcome to bring hospital Café or Atrium-purchased meals to your room to enjoy with you.
Gift Shop
North – Robbinsdale Hospital Gift Shop offers a variety of items from personal care items, gifts, snacks and items to help pass the time. Check out our ever-changing selection of new and trendy gift ideas. Stop in while visiting or call and speak to our friendly and knowledgeable staff for help in finding an item for yourself or loved one. We are happy to take orders over the phone and offer free delivery inside the hospital.
Here are just a few sections you can browse at The Gift Shop at North – Robbinsdale Hospital:
- Floral Arrangements
- Balloons
- Jewelry/Accessories/Handbags
- Greeting Cards, Word Puzzles, Crosswords, Books and magazines
- Chocolates/Candy/Snacks/Beverages
- Adult Card Games, Board Games and Plush Items
- Baby and Children Toys, Stuffed Animals and Gifts
- Seasonal Items
- Home Accents/Décor, Inspirational, Encouraging, Sympathetic and Affectionate
- Clothing
- Personal Care Items
The Gift Shop is located on the Atrium level of North – Robbinsdale Hospital, near the Welcome Desk and across the hall from Atrium Espresso Coffee shop.
To order over the phone or for more ideas or information about product availability, call the Gift Shop at (763) 581-4472.
Please leave a message if our lines are busy our staff will return your call.
Store Hours: Monday-Friday 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Security and Escort
To report safety concerns or to request an escort to your vehicle, visit the security office on the plaza level between the atrium and cafeteria, or call 763-581-2160.
Support Services
North – Robbinsdale Hospital prides itself on clear communication with all of our patients.
Nurses can help equip you with any tools you need for the best possible care. This includes:
- Sign-language or foreign-language interpreters available to help you fully understand your condition and care plan. Learn more.
- Pocket Talkers and TTY/TTD compatible phones available for the deaf and hard of hearing. Learn more.
- Social Work and spiritual care.
- Medical record and health-care directive access and support.
- SafeJourney—access to our hospital–based domestic abuse advocacy program.
- Organ donation information.
- Financial Advocacy representatives available to assist with any of your questions.
- Patient representatives.
Preparing For Your Arrival
For planned hospitalizations, a hospital representative may call you a few days prior to your admission to pre-register you for your stay. You will be asked for information about your health, emergency contacts, billing and insurance coverage. Be sure to bring your insurance card to the hospital the day of your appointment so that it can be scanned. Please bring a photo ID, too, if you have one. This will help your admission go smoothly once you arrive at North Memorial Health. If you have any questions about pre-registration, please call 763-581-4360.
Pre-admission Forms for Childbirth
To prepare for the birth of your baby, we ask that you complete the forms described below. Completing these forms prior to your stay at North Memorial Health gives you one less thing to worry about and will allow for a smoother registration and more satisfying birth experience.
Click here to download Pre-Admission forms, birth preferences and birth certificate information.
If you would like to submit online, complete our secure, Pre-Admission forms through MyChart. If you do not have a MyChart account you can sign up online.
Register
The preregistration form can also be printed and returned six to eight weeks prior to your due date. Please return it by mail or fax.
North – Robbinsdale Hospital
Admission Office
Labor and Delivery Preadmission
3300 Oakdale Avenue North
Robbinsdale, MN 55422-9988
Fax – 763-581-8371
Optional Infant Photography
We offer professional photography services and the opportunity to place photos of your baby in an online photo gallery. A photographer will meet with you to explain these services when you are admitted to North Memorial. Download an Infant Photography Release Form.
If you have any questions about our forms, please call 763-581-4360.
Interpreter Services
We offer support options for deaf, hard of hearing, language assistance and translation services. These services are all free of charge and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for patients at North Memorial Health.
Community Health
Community Health Needs Assessments and Implementation Plans
Together with community partners, we’re building a holistic and equitable healthcare system designed to improve everyone’s health and wellness.
Our Commitment to Community Health
Additional Resources
Patient Nondiscrimination Policy
As a health family, North Memorial Health is committed to treating everyone equally. North Memorial Health complies with all applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude people, or treat them differently on the basis of age, ancestry, color, disability, gender, gender identity, marital status, parental or familial status, race, religion, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, status with regard to public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or veteran’s status. This means racial justice and equity for all our patients as outlined in our patient nondiscrimination policy (PDF).
Services & Programs
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.
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 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 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.
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.
Care Team
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Cassondra Hoffman, PA-C
Trauma / Critical Care
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I strive to provide evidenced-based, compassionate, patient-focused care.”
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Roman Guerrero, MD
Orthopedics / Bones & Joints
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I believe in treating the individual and not their symptoms.”
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Damon Cashman, MD
Emergency Medicine
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I strive to provide patients with excellent and compassionate emergency care.”
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Lora Princ, MD, MBA
OB/GYN Hospitalist
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I make sure my patient's concerns and desires come first.”
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Emad F. Beshai, Ph.D, MD
Hospital Medicine
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I enjoy solving complex health issues while working together with my patients.”
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Jack Kotecki, MD
Hospital Medicine
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I strive to provide quality care by really listening to patients.”
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Edward Santos, MD
Orthopedics / Bones & Joints
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I find it important to discuss all options, while relieving pain and restoring function.”
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Margaret A. Baranowski, PA-C
Orthopedics / Bones & Joints
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I strive to be an advocate for patients as they navigate life-altering illness.”
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Abdulqadir Ahmad, MD
Infectious Disease
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I believe a strong patient-provider relationship is based on open and reliable information about their care.”
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Mark L. Solfelt, MD
Thoracic Surgery
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It is my privilege to care for people during some of the most challenging times of their lives.”
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Meysam A. Kebriaei, M.D., M.B.A., D.A.B.N.S.
Neurosurgery
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I strive to establish a collaborative partnership with patients to develop a personalized treatment plan.”
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Ana Brown, PA-C
Thoracic Surgery
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I strive to earn trust and do the right thing for each individual.”
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Lobsang Choedon Trasar, MD
Hospital Medicine
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I strive to provide holistic and compassionate care to all my patients.”
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Jennifer L. Vlach, LICSW
Emergency Behavioral Health
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I focus on the uniqueness and dignity of each individual.”
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Miriam Y. Kim, MD
Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery
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I work to deliver exceptional service and compassionate care to all our patients.”
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Partnership Practices Performing at North – Robbinsdale Hospital
Midwest Spine & Brain Institute
Midwest Spine & Brain Institute is dedicated to restoring lives affected by spine and brain injury, disease, and disorder.
SP Plastic Surgery
Dr. Peng is trained in aesthetic surgery, hand surgery, and reconstruction of wounds related to cancer and trauma to restore form, function, and beauty to each patient.
Northwest Family Clinics
A whole life care approach; we are with our patient’s from birth until geriatric years.
Minnesota Gastroenterology
Minnesota Gastroenterology specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of adults and children with GI disorders and has several convenient outpatient endoscopy centers and clinics.
Mesna Plastic Surgery
Mesna Plastic Surgery offers a broad range of surgical options, minimally invasive treatments, and nonsurgical treatments for cosmetic enhancement of the face, body, breasts and skin.
McCue Plastic Surgery PA
As a board-certified plastic surgeon, Jonathan McCue, M.D., is available for both cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery to patients in the entire Twin Cities metro area.
Kim Neurosurgery
Kim Neurosurgery finds joy in providing the best contemporary neurosurgical service with respect and clarity.
University of MN Physicians
The clinics of the University of Minnesota Physicians provide a full range of services in general family medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, dentistry, chronic and acute conditions, and social services.
TK Plastic Surgery LLC
Kayan Plastic Surgery is robust plastic surgery practice doing cosmetic breast and body procedures, fat grafting, breast reconstruction and gender confirmation surgery.
Twin Cities Plastic Surgery
Dr. Joe Gryskiewicz has expertise performing a wide range of cosmetic and reconstructive procedures, serving the Minneapolis and St. Paul areas for over 30 years.
Minneapolis Vascular Physicians
Minneapolis Vascular Physicians are experts in vascular care, dedicated to providing high-quality, timely and compassionate care to improve the lives of our patients.
Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology
Minneapolis Clinic of Neurology's mission is to provide exceptional, personalized neurologic care. For services and locations, visit us online.
Twin Cities Orthopedics
Twin Cities Orthopedics provides comprehensive orthopedic specialty care at over 30 convenient clinics in the Twin Cities and Western Wisconsin.
Oakdale Ear, Nose & Throat
Oakdale Ear, Nose & Throat Clinic is committed to your health and well being, treating allergies, hearing loss, sinus disorders - and many other ENT conditions.
Kidney Specialists of Minnesota PA
Kidney Specialists of Minnesota provides services to patients with chronic kidney disease, hypertension, diabetic kidney disease, kidney transplants, end stage renal disease (ESRD) and other kidney related diseases.
Respiratory Consultants
An independent group of physicians committed to promoting lung and sleep health, and treating a variety of pulmonary and sleep problems using state of the art technology.
Broadway Family Medicine Clinic
University of Minnesota Physicians Broadway Family Medicine Clinic is committed to setting the standard for excellence in health care delivery for you and your family.
Specialists in General Surgery
We treat a variety of conditions, diseases, and disorders, from breast cancer and colon disease, to hernias and spleen disorders.
Emergency Physicians Professional Association (EPPA)
Emergency Physicians Professional Association (EPPA) has been providing physician/APC staffing in emergency departments across Minnesota since 1969.
Voyage Healthcare
Voyage Healthcare, formally known as North Clinic, is an independently owned, multi-specialty practice. Voyage Healthcare provides the positive healthcare experience you deserve through every stage of life. Locations are located in the northwest metro.
Bhatti GI
Bhatti GI is a comprehensive weight loss practice offering medical, endoscopic and surgical solutions for patients who suffer from obesity and related illnesses.
Metropolitan Neurosurgery, PA
Providers specializing in neurosurgical care of the brain, spine, and spinal cord on both a scheduled and emergency basis.
Minnesota Urology PA
Minnesota Urology is a center of excellence for men and women, with 31 clinic locations serving patients in Minneapolis, St. Paul and areas throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin.
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