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Cold Spring, Minnesota

Family Medicine – Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant – Cold Spring, MN

Nurse Practitioner 8.7 Work-LifeNo callNo weekendsNo nightsFull-Time Full Practice Authority

Listed compensation

$113k-$129k

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Job Description

Family Medicine – Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant – Cold Spring, MN

No weekends | Flexible schedule | Established Team

Summary

Join CentraCare – Cold Spring as a Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant and provide comprehensive, team-based primary care in an outpatient-only setting. This role supports a balanced lifestyle with flexible scheduling, no nights, weekends, holidays, or call, while allowing you to deliver high-quality preventive, acute, and chronic care that improves patient outcomes and supports both provider and patient experience.

Schedule

  • Full-time | 0.6–0.9 FTE | Onsite – CentraCare – Cold Spring, MN
  • Day shifts | Specific hours listed below
  • Choice of 3- or 4-day work week
  • Clinic hours: 8:00 a. m. – 5:00 p. m. (flexibility available)
  • No evenings, weekends, holidays, or call

Pay and Benefits

  • Salary range: $112,518.85-$128,651.12 per year
  • Pay may be determined by factors such as education, experience, skills, knowledge, location, and internal equity
  • Salary and salary range are based on a 1.0 FTE, reduced FTE will result in a prorated offer rate
  • May be eligible for additional pay through bonuses, quality incentives, or production-based compensation.
  • Benefits: Medical, dental, time off, retirement, employee discounts and more!

Qualifications

Required

  • Graduate of an accredited Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant program
  • Eligibility for Minnesota licensure as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
  • Current AHA BLS certification
  • DEA registration (or ability to obtain prior to start)
  • 1+ year of clinical experience as an NP or PA

Our Location

CentraCare, a leading not-for-profit health system and one of the largest providers of rural care, serves patients across Central, West Central, and Southwestern Minnesota.

It delivers nationally recognized care through 40+ medical and surgical specialties, innovative population health programs, and a collaborative physician–administration leadership model.

CentraCare – Cold Spring Clinic provides convenient, family-focused care, offering family medicine and integrated behavioral health services for patients of all ages. Cold Spring is a safe, welcoming community just 25 minutes from St. Cloud and 60 minutes from Minneapolis.

Residents enjoy abundant four-season recreation with lakes, trails, and parks, a golf course, movie theater, local breweries, historic landmarks, and the Horseshoe Chain of Lakes, often called “the best kept secret in Minnesota,” alongside a thriving local granite mining industry

About CentraCare centracare.com

CentraCare has made a commitment to diversity in its workforce. All individuals including, but not limited to, individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply. CentraCare is an EEO/AA employer.

Key Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive, team-based primary care in an outpatient-only setting for patients of all ages. Deliver high-quality preventive, acute, and chronic care to improve patient outcomes.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Certifications

DEA License

Key Skills

Preventive careAcute carePatient assessmentTeam-based careClinical documentationBehavioral health integration

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Family Medicine – Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant – Cold Spring, MN at Centra Care a 8.7 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as excellent. This places the position in the top 5% in Family Medicine (NP) — ranked against 2,347 active Family Medicine (NP) listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties, no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Family Medicine — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Centra Care ranks #7 of 12 employers hiring Nurse Practitioner on WeekdayDoc by average advertised pay.

Of the 50 active Family Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 30% are remote, 68% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

For production-based offers, this specialty runs a typical 5,000 wRVUs per year (derived from CMS CPT-frequency data), and WeekdayDoc listings compensate a median of about $50 per wRVU — implying roughly $250k in production-based pay. For reference, the 2026 CMS Medicare conversion factor is $33.40 per RVU.

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23 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution23 jobs · 17 employers

6
<$135k
8
$135k-150k
3
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3
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3
$180k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks20 jobs · 17 employers

401k / retirement match
100%
CME allowance
95%
Sign-on bonus
20%
Loan repayment
15%
Relocation assistance
15%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 8.7
Among the best 10% of Family Medicine (NP) listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,347 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • No call
  • No weekends
  • No nights

Living in Cold Spring

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$360k≈ 3.2× annual pay
Median resident rent
$1,424/mo≈ 15% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
24 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
87.6
State income tax
Up to 9.8%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · St. Cloud, MN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.