Our mission at MENDAKOTA PEDIATRICS is to provide comprehensive pediatric care for infants, children, and adolescents in an intimate, family-focused practice setting. We are an Independent Practice, physician owned and operated, and not associated with any corporate entity. We place the highest possible value on the doctor-patient (and doctor-family) relationship.  We understand that families are frustrated by large clinic systems that make it difficult for them to see their own physician.  We also believe that families are looking for a "medical home" where the staff knows them well, and where parents can be assured that their children's problems will be watched over by their own personal physician, not by an impersonal,  monolithic health "system".  

Because we place such a high value on this personalized model of care for children and their families, our clinic uses an computer-based "Electronic Medical Record" (EMR) system. Our  EMR eliminates paper charts and allows Dr. Gobel and Dr. Ray to access your child's chart 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whether she is at the clinic or at home.  Our EMR puts us on the cutting-edge of medical technology in a small practice setting.

Another very important factor which parents need to consider when selecting a pediatrician  is the relationship that the pediatrician has with pediatric subspecialists, should their child have specialty care needs.  We are extremely particular about which physicians we partner with to provide the highest quality subspecialty care for each individual child.  For example, we may choose to use a specialist at the University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, at Children's Hospital in St. Paul, or at Gillette Children's Specialty Care.  We also refer patients to private subspecialty groups that are not necessarily associated with only one hospital.  The point is that we choose the specialist who can best serve your child.