Department Chair of Inpatient Pediatrics

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. Applicants may be board certified in pediatric or other pediatric subspecialties. 

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

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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 that includes a 525 bed acute care hospital, with new adult and pediatric emergency departments, the 911 paramedic system, nine community health centers, 19 school-based clinics, the public health department, the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, a 100 bed non-medical detoxification center, a dedicated psychiatric emergency service, correctional care facilities, the Rocky Mountain Center for the Medical response to Terrorism, Mass Casualties and Epidemics, and an HMO. The Denver Health Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center has been recognized as a preeminent Level I Trauma Center, with one of the best trauma survival rates in the country.

Denver Health is formally affiliated with the University of Colorado, School of Medicine (CU-SOM), and Denver Health faculty have full-time academic appointments. The Chair has primary responsibility for all aspects of the scholarly and educational programs based at the Denver Health Medical Center and will foster collaboration, innovation, and excellence in meeting our joint missions. The new Chair will be an individual who has a passion for providing outstanding care to the underserved, a desire to improve systems and processes to maximize efficiency, the leadership to engage staff at all levels, and an enduring commitment to training the next generation of physicians.

Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver’s 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.

As Colorado’s primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.

Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.