The Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan is expanding in Southeast Michigan. We are recruiting an Associate Medical Director for Neonatology at UMH-Sparrow Lansing hospital. The position is a leadership role responsible for assisting the C.S. Mott Neonatology Medical Directors in overseeing the clinical, administrative, and educational activities within the Neonatology department at UMH-Sparrow. This position involves a balance of direct clinical care, leadership, and management responsibilities.
Key responsibilities include provision of clinical oversight and guidance to neonatology physicians, advanced practice providers (APPs), and nursing staff, participation in the management of critically ill neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit and promotion of evidence-based practices and ensuring compliance with the latest clinical guidelines and protocols. Harmonization and coordination of care between UMH-Sparrow NICU and C.S. Mott Hospital NICU will be a critical responsibility. The associate medical director will lead and participate in quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes, reduce errors, and increase patient safety, analyze clinical performance data to identify areas for improvement and assist in developing action plans. They will ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, accreditation standards, and hospital policies. Administrative duties include developing clinical protocols, collaboration with hospital administration and other medical directors and management of staffing, budgeting, and resource allocation for the Neonatology department. Finally, the associate director will oversee the education and professional development of neonatology staff and nursing teams with coordination of continuing medical education (CME) opportunities.
University of Michigan Health-Sparrow (UMH-Sparrow) is part of C.S. Mott Children's Hospital through Michigan Medicine's Regional State Network. UMH-Sparrow's Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Lansing is a 35-bed level 3 NICU and a 12-bed Special care nursery with 700-800 admissions to NICU annually that offers high frequency mechanical ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide therapy, and therapeutic hypothermia. There is an active ground transport team, led by well-trained transport nurses that transport in about 100 babies annually. The NICU is supported by Pediatric Surgery, Ophthalmology, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Urology, Genetics, and Neurology, Infectious Disease, Hematology-Oncology, and Pulmonology, with 24/7 access to additional consultants via the University of Michigan M-Line and priority for transfer to Mott for escalation to level IV services. The Obstetric service at UMH-Sparrow has 3500-4000 deliveries annually, offers Maternal Fetal Medicine and has an Ob-Gyn residency program. University of Michigan Neonatologists will join the six Michigan State University (MSU) faculty neonatologists who currently attend in the UMH-Sparrow NICU and work with fellows, residents and APPs. UMH-Sparrow offers a ACGME accredited Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellowship and a Pediatric Residency Program with MSU. The NICU is staffed by two attending neonatologists during the day, with home night-call. In-house first-line coverage provided by two APPs and/or fellows. MSU Neonatologists are engaged in active basic science and clinical research, and QI projects and mentor Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine fellows in these areas. All UMH-Sparrow faculty, fellows, and APPs are invited to participate virtually in University of Michigan Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine academic conferences as desired.
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital is ranked first in the state by USNWR, third in the region, and is nationally ranked in all eleven specialties, including Neonatology. The Brandon Newborn Intensive Care Unit, a 58-bed single patient room Level 4 NICU, within the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital, an integral part of Michigan Medicine's main medical campus in Ann Arbor (4900 deliveries, 900 admissions annually, 70% inborn). Neonatologists, collaborate closely with the Congenital Heart Center, remotely supervise APPs or fellows on medical transports in a large geographic catchment area, attend high risk deliveries, participate in prenatal consultation and care coordination in collaboration with maternal-fetal medicine, palliative care, and pediatric and surgical subspecialists in the Fetal Diagnostic Center, which offers advanced fetal procedures and fetal surgery. Our Division and Department offer opportunities to participate in clinical, translational, bioethics, health services, global health, bench and educational research. The Brandon Transport team provides ground, helicopter, and fixed wing transport.