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