Chair of Inpatient Pediatrics

We are recruiting for a motivated Chair of Inpatient Pediatrics to join our team!

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Job Summary

Denver Health, in collaboration with the University of Colorado School of Medicine, is seeking a clinically skilled and experienced leader, educator, scholar, and communicator for the position of Department Chair of Inpatient Pediatrics at Denver Health Medical Center.

The Department Chair oversees all care delivered by the Department of Inpatient Pediatrics and provides overall leadership to the Department. The Director is responsible for strategic planning, clinical services, professional performance, business performance, faculty development, and medical education for the department. The Department incorporates the pediatric inpatient service, PICU, NICU, and newborn nursery, and pediatric subspecialty care required for all pediatric patients admitted to the hospital.

Our Mission:

Denver Health is uniquely positioned as an integrated healthcare system, nationally recognized for its passion and commitment in providing exceptional care to the communities it serves. Denver Health is considered a national model of an integrated urban safety net health care system which includes inpatient care, emergency services, community and school-based health centers, correctional care, addictions treatment, public health and an insurance plan.

Teaching the next generation of providers:
Denver Health is a major teaching affiliate of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, (UCSOM), and Denver Health physician faculty have full-time academic appointments at the UCSOM. Subject to approval of the Chair, the Director may serve as Affiliate Vice-Chair of the Department of Pediatrics of the UCSOM. Denver Health is a major training site of the highly regarded University of Colorado Pediatric Residency Program; pediatric residents receive 1/3 of their clinical training at Denver Health, and a chief resident and Associate Program Director are based at Denver Health.
 

Currently, the Inpatient Pediatrics provider group consists of: 

• 5 Neonatologists and 4 APPs who work in the NICU 

• 4 Neonatal hospitalists who work in the NICU and Well-Baby Nursery 

• 2 Pediatric hospitalists who work on the Wards and Well-Baby Nursery 

• 4 APPs who work in the Well-Baby Nursery 

• 5 Pediatric intensivists who work in the PICU 

Pediatric subspecialty support from Surgery and Medicine Departments Includes:  

• 1 pediatric epileptologist/neurologist 

• Pediatric surgeons, pediatric surgical subspecialists in ENT, neurosurgery, orthopedics, child/adolescent psychiatrists, and medical toxicologists are appointed through their respective departments.  

Reporting Relationships

The Director of Inpatient Pediatrics reports to the Chief Medical Officer of Denver Health and collaborates closely with the Chair of Pediatrics at the UCSOM for academic roles and responsibilities.

Procedures for candidacy:

Interested applicants should submit CV and Cover Letter to the Denver Health Manager of Provider Recruitment for consideration no later than March 4, 2025.

Aaron Ortiz, Manager of Provider Recruitment

Denver Health Medical Center

Aaron.ortiz@dhha.org
 

Essential Functions:

• Lead and participate in clinical quality initiatives focused on enhancing systems to assure timeliness and efficiency and assuring quality while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
• Promote and oversee development of critical pathways, protocols and practice guidelines that promote quality, cost-effective care for the patient population.
• Lead efforts to optimize operational efficiency within the Department.
• Ensure the application of best practices, incorporating regulatory requirements at the local, stat, and national level; utilize benchmarking and data analysis from applicable sources.
• Provide leadership and disseminate practice standards and accountabilities to non-physician staff, physicians, residents and medical students.
• Drive innovation in care management and establish efficient operational infra