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Posted: 23-May-25
Location: Hershey, Pennsylvania
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Executive
Sector:
Hospital, Public and Private
Preferred Education:
MD/DO
Internal Number: NeonatologyDivisionChief
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Penn State Health Children’s Hospital
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
Hershey, PA
Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Health Children’s Hospital are recruiting a Division Chief in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.
Opportunity Highlights
- Lead a team of 13 academic neonatologists, 6 fellows, and 17 advanced practice providers
- The Division includes a full complement of ancillary staff including excellent administrative support, social workers, dieticians, respiratory therapists, care coordinators, child life specialists, neuropsychologists, PT/OT/Speech Therapists, and other nursing support.
- A new 56-bed 36,000 sq. ft. Level IV NICU with a hybrid bed structure (27 single rooms, 4 twin rooms, 1 triplet room, and 3 six-bedded open bay pods) within the Children’s Hospital.
- Neonatal services are integrated with Maternal-Fetal Medicine and outpatient Complex Fetal Care Center to provide perinatal services to patients of the highest acuity and complexity.
- An active ECMO program, a busy NICU Neurodevelopmental follow-up clinic, and a Small Baby Unit.
- All modes of ventilation are used, including high-frequency jet and oscillator, PSV/VG, invasive and non-invasive NAVA, bubble CPAP, and high-flow nasal cannula. We provide whole body therapeutic hypothermia and have 24/7 coverage by pediatric surgery, pediatric cardiovascular surgery and a full complement of pediatric subspecialists. We have an active transport team that can provide hypothermia with a full line of intensive care during transport.
- Involvement in clinical and bench research: neonatal pulmonary disease, genetics of surfactant A protein, neonatal abstinence syndrome, neonatal hypoglycemia, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, sepsis, neonatal genetics, among many other projects.
- Ready access to Pediatric Clinical Research Office research nurses, coordinators, and IRB- and regulatory specialists, as well as biostatisticians.
- Penn State was the sixteenth center to join the Vermont Oxford Network and was one of the first 10 centers to begin VON’s multi-center quality improvement work in 1995. Our NICU is also involved in multicenter clinical trials.
Requirements
- Medical degree – MD, DO, or foreign equivalent.
- Fellowship trained, BC/BE in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.
- Minimum 5 years Neonatal-Perinatal experience.
- Eligible for the rank of Associate Professor or higher.
- Proven leadership experience in an academic healthcare environment.
- A strong commitment to patient care, medical student and resident education, and research/scholarly activity is necessary.
Penn State Health
- Penn State Health is a multi-hospital health system serving patients and communities across central Pennsylvania.
- The Children’s Hospital celebrated a new era of patient and family centered care with the completion of a three-floor vertical expansion in October 2020 to meet the needs of children and families in central Pennsylvania who count on us for care.
- As the only children's hospital between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia fully equipped to treat the most severely ill children, Penn State Health Children's Hospital is the region's pediatric health care leader.
- Among the first hospitals in the nation to be named a Level 1 Children’s Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons Children’s Surgery Verification Program.
- We are the only medical facility in Pennsylvania to be accredited as a Level 1 pediatric trauma center and Level 1 adult trauma center.
- The system includes Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, and Penn State Cancer Institutebased in Hershey, Pa.; Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center in Enola, Pa.; Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center in Camp Hill, Pa.; Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center in Lancaster, Pa.; Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading, Pa.; Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, a specialty provider of inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services, in Harrisburg, Pa.; and 2,450+ physicians and direct care providers at 225 outpatient practices. Additionally, the system jointly operates various healthcare providers, including Penn State Health Rehabilitation Hospital, Hershey Outpatient Surgery Center and Hershey Endoscopy Center.
Community
- Hershey is a suburban community in a metropolitan area, surrounded by farms and an abundance of outdoors opportunities. Known for the high quality of life, it is also one of the fastest growing regions in the state.
- The area offers excellent public schools with many districts ranking in the top 100 in the state.
- Hershey is approximately 12 miles from Harrisburg, the state capital, and within a short train ride or drive to New York City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Baltimore.
To learn more about this opportunity, please contact Patty Shipton, CPRP, Senior Physician Recruiter, at [email protected].
Penn State Health is fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is unapologetically expressing itself through every person's perspective and lived experiences. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.
About Penn State Health
Penn State Health is fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff. We believe diversity is unapologetically expressing itself through every person's perspectives and lived experiences. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.Penn State Health is a multi-hospital health system serving patients and communities across central Pennsylvania.The system includes Penn State Health St. Joseph Medical Center in Reading, Pa., Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Penn State Children’s Hospital, Penn State Cancer Institute, and Penn State Health Rehabilitation Hospital (jointly owned), based in Hershey, Pa., as well as more than 1,300 physicians and direct care providers at 78 medical office locations. The system also has jointly owned health care providers, including Hershey Outpatient Surgery Center, Hershey Endos...copy Center, Horizon Home Healthcare and the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute.Penn State Health shares an integrated strategic plan and operations with Penn State College of Medicine, the University’s medical school.
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