Gundersen Health System

The flagship teaching hospital runs about 325 beds as a Level II trauma center; nursing careers across the system cover more than 30 specialty areas from surgical and emergency to inpatient, ambulatory, and outpatient work. You chart in Epic. If you are new to practice, the Transition to Practice residency auto-enrolls RNs with less than one year of patient care experience into a 12-month path with six core sessions, simulation, and small groups. Tuition reimbursement, nursing scholarships, and an internal Career Development Center sit alongside internship, orientation, councils, and leadership paths. Clinic schedules can look like straight 8-hour days without weekends, holidays, or on-call; ICU postings in La Crosse describe 12-hour day/night rotation or straight nights with every third weekend and holiday. Flexible scheduling and generous PTO are part of how nursing benefits are framed, along with comprehensive medical for you and your family. Pay figures on record are for La Crosse critical care: ICU RN starting pay at $38.96/hr and up by experience, with shift/weekend/holiday differentials and a sign-on bonus up to $2,500. The system is unifying with Bellin Health under the Emplify Health name while keeping primary and specialty care. Glassdoor sits near 3.9/5 across a few hundred reviews; the honest gap is that work-life and compensation land only in the mid-3s there, and allnurses scores the system a Fair 40/100 NurseScore.

Mission framing emphasizes relentless caring, learning, and innovating.