Nemours Children’s Health is seeking a dynamic Division Chief of Pediatric Hospital Medicine to provide strategic vision and leadership across all divisional missions, including inpatient care delivery, quality and safety, education, scholarly activity, and advocacy. The Division Chief will partner closely with multidisciplinary leaders to advance clinical excellence, operational performance, and care model innovation, and will report directly to the Chair of Pediatrics, David Brousseau, MD, MS.
Key Opportunity Highlights
Essential Functions:
• Strategic vision and leadership to strengthen the clinical and operational performance of the Division of Hospital Medicine
• Fiscal stewardship and effective operational management
• Advancement of the division’s academic, research, and scholarly mission
• Recruitment, retention, development, and mentorship of faculty
• Support of clinical education and training for interns, residents, and fellows
Division Overview:
The Division of Hospital Medicine includes a diverse team of 19hospitalist-trained physicians, 2 fellows, and 7 nurse practitioners, providing care for approximately 7000 patients annually within a 260-bed, state-of-the-art facility.
The division maintains a strong educational mission and serves as a clinical home to many recognized outstanding educators. Nemours Children’s Health – Delaware is the primary teaching hospital and clerkship site for the Pediatric Residency Program of Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University/Nemours Children’s Health, Delaware, and serves as a teaching site for hospital medicine trainees across the region. Faculty appointments and advancement are available through SKMC.
Division Strengths, Clinical & Academic Highlights
Qualifications:
Candidates must hold an MD or DO (or equivalent clinical doctoral degree) and be board certified in Pediatric Hospital Medicine or Pediatrics. Applicants must have an academic record commensurate with appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor and be eligible for medical licensure in Delaware.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate proven leadership in inpatient pediatric care delivery, with direct responsibility for clinical operations, quality and safety performance, staffing and coverage models, and patient throughput. Experience leading care model innovation and system-level redesign—including the development of sustainable hospital medicine programs, operational efficiencies, and scalable inpatient care models that support growth—is essential. Candidates must also bring strong administrative leadership, a commitment to education and scholarly activity, and collaborative skills necessary to lead a multidisciplinary hospital medicine division.
How to Apply/For Confidential Consideration
For confidential consideration, please apply directly.
Location:
Located on a beautiful estate in Wilmington, Delaware, and close to Philadelphia and surrounding suburbs, Nemours offers a unique opportunity to practice in a premier setting. The region is known for top-ranked school systems, recreational opportunities, family-oriented communities, access to world-class dining, professional sports, and cultural entertainment.
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Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.
Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.
Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.
Learn more at Nemours.org
Nemours Children's Health is committed to improving the health of children. As a non-profit children’s health organization, we consider the health of every child to be a sacred trust.
Through family-centered care in our children’s hospitals and clinics in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, as well as world-changing research, education and advocacy, Nemours fulfills the promise of a healthier tomorrow for all children — even those who may never enter our doors.
Nemours began more than 80 years ago with the vision of Alfred I. duPont to improve the lives of children and to do whatever it takes to prevent and treat even the most disabling childhood conditions.
Today, through our children’s hospitals and health system, we directly care for 250,000 children annually in Delaware Valley and Florida, including families who travel from across the country and world to see our specialists — treating every child as we would our own.
We also reach beyond the walls of our hospitals and clinics to be a voice for children on a national and international level, and to lead the way in prevention, intervention, education, and research.
Nemours is growing to better serve the children and families in our care. We have 1.1 million square feet of space currently devoted to providing children’s healthcare or under construction, all designed with significant input and advice from our patients and families.
