Children's Hospital Colorado

After Yale, she went on to train in pediatrics, pediatric cardiology, and cardiac imaging at Boston Children's.

And today, she's a pediatric and fetal cardiologist at Children's Hospital Colorado and a faculty member at the University of Colorado.

She's really still at the beginning of her career, but she's already built a remarkable career.

She's at the intersection of clinical medicine, outcomes research, health equity, and health system design.

So there are approximately 5,000 community hospitals in the U.S. that treat adults, but only about 1,200 hospitals that have pediatric inpatient units.

And then depending on how you define what a children's hospital is, there are probably somewhere between 250 to 400 across the U.S. And not surprisingly, they're all concentrated in major metropolitan centers.

So Children's Hospital Colorado is one of them.

The thing about children's hospitals is that they're especially important because they tend to be better equipped at delivering care for high acuity conditions or for medically complex children.

So my name is Kim DiMaria, and I currently serve as the director of the Heart Center at Rocky Mountain Children's Hospital, where I also practice as a nurse practitioner in the cardiac ICU.

Prior to this role, I worked at the University of Michigan as well as Children's Hospital Colorado, serving as the director of quality and safety, as well as a CIC nurse practitioner.

Right before this podcast, we were talking a little bit about how fun it's been for you to really help build a new heart center for the program there at Rocky Mountain and how that's probably going to influence some of the decisions made.

and your role on the board.

I'm Kathleen Nadelgase, as Remli just mentioned.

I'm a pediatric and EMS physician at the University of Colorado and work clinically at Children's Hospital Colorado.

I've been involved in EMS work for some time now.

I was an EMT way, way, way back in the day, and so always had a special interest in that.

Next year's legislature will decide.

Children's Hospital Colorado seems to be back on the federal government's radar.

Hospital leaders say the Trump administration has now referred them to be investigated over billing practices.

That came out in a trial over whether the hospital should be held in contempt for not providing gender-affirming care to minors.

What is or is not happening inside this hospital has now landed its lawyers inside a courtroom.

What do we want the hospital to do? Provide this care.

That's John McHugh, co-counsel for families suing Children's Hospital Colorado over its decision to stop gender-affirming care for minors.

The Colorado Supreme Court ordered the hospital to resume that care.

It's Anthony Yu.

I've got two great guests with us today coming to us from Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora, Colorado.

Dr. Rachel Meyers from the World of Physical Therapy.

Rachel, what's going on? How are you?

So you guys... have trained throughout the country, you do have something in common in your background, and that is connection to Cincinnati.

Rachel, tell us how you ended up in Colorado.

I am a sports physical therapist out in Colorado at Children's, and I grew up as a competitive rock climber, so I did a lot of my schooling out here, and the mountains brought me out here, and it's a great place to be.

Yeah, absolutely.

Here is your host, Dr. Allison Brent, emergency medicine physician at Children's Colorado.

To explore the bigger picture, we are joined by my friend and colleague, Dr. Monica Federico, a pulmonologist here at Children's Hospital Colorado.

She's the medical director of the asthma program and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Monica, welcome back to the podcast.

We appreciate you so much.

And until next time, keep on keeping kids safe out there.

Charting Pediatrics is a production of Children's Hospital Colorado.

Do you have questions on this topic or an idea for a future episode? Write to us at chartingpediatrics at childrenscolorado.org.

Yeah.

The chief of Children Hospital Colorado, Dr.

White, was really a good person.

Uh, he took some time for us, uh, to explain, uh, the public system care, uh, the hospital, uh, and visit, uh, the campus, uh, of, uh, Denver together.