The Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital has a wonderful opportunity for a board-certified child & adolescent psychiatrist looking for a leadership opportunity within a premier children's hospital.We are growing to add a Medical Director to lead our new 12-bed, state-of-the-art pediatric medical psychiatric unit.For the appropriate candidate, this position could also include the role of pediatric behavioral health core faculty for the pediatrics residency program.Administrative time will be provided for both medical director and core faculty responsibilities. For clinical care, we anticipate a blend of inpatient and outpatient practice and would welcome learning your areas of interest.

Select Medical Director Responsibilities:

• Assuring quality, safety, and evidence-based practice
• Managing and overseeing the unit's 12-bed census
• Working with payors for ongoing authorization and credentialing
• Leading quality, safety, and experience work and providing necessary reporting on these efforts
• Acting as an advocate and provide ongoing communication with patients, families, staff and multidisciplinary team
• Partnering with nursing, care management and providers to achieve unit goals
• Serving as a liaison with TJC and state of Michigan for site accreditation visits
• Being the authority in care treatment plans when there are differing views
• Building and maintaining a positive unit culture where patients, providers, and staff can thrive

HDVCH is proud to be recognized as one of U.S. News & World Report’s 2022-2023 Best Children’s Hospitals in the nation for four sub-specialties. HDVCH is a state-of-the-art, globally integrated, 234-bed free standing dedicated children’s hospital located on the campus of Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Annually, there are 8760 inpatient and 124,600 ambulatory visits, as well as over 55,185 children seen in the Pediatric Emergency Department (Level 1 Trauma rated). HDVCH also has one of the nation’s largest NICU’s (108-beds).

Grand Rapids is the second largest city in Michigan with a growing metro area population of over 1 million people.It has been recently identified by Forbes as the #1 best city to raise a family based on cost of living, housing affordability, commute, and education.In 2022, US News ranked Grand Rapids 16th best place to live out of 150 metro areas and in 2023 Travel and Leisure ranked it the second most beautiful and affordable places to live in the United States.