Midwest Free-Standing Children's Hospital PEM opportunity!

Dayton Children’s Hospital, located in Dayton, Ohio, is recruiting for additional pediatric emergency medicine physicians to join our team with clinical emphasis.  Successful candidates must be an MD or DO, board certified/board eligible in pediatric emergency medicine and hold an unrestricted Ohio medical license.  This is an employed position and offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

The physician will join an existing team of pediatric emergency medicine physicians, general pediatricians, nurse practitioners, nurses and numerous support staff.  There are emergency departments located at the main campus near downtown Dayton and at the south campus located in Miamisburg, Ohio.  A pediatric emergency medicine fellowship program was initiated in 2022 accepting 2 fellows per year. 

Notable highpoints include:

• Level 1 pediatric trauma center
• Lantern Award in 2024 (the only certification in the Dayton region)
• Magnet certified
• On-site simulation center
• EMR - EPIC
• Child Life support, outreach nurse, case manager, forensic nurses
• Robust behavioral health support

Establishing a practice at Dayton Children’s provides the opportunity to work with colleagues and staff committed to providing quality, personalized care in a technologically advanced pediatric center with an outstanding community reputation.  The Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine department of pediatrics and its residency program are based at Dayton Children’s.  In 2022 & 2023, Forbes named Dayton Children’s a Best In-State Employer!  The American Heart Association (AHA) has awarded Dayton Children’s Hospital Platinum Level recognition for promoting a healthy work culture! We are proud to be the only pediatric hospital in the country to receive this highest status.

Dayton metro is the 4th largest in Ohio, offers affordable cost of living, and is noted for its association with aviation most notably due to the Wright brothers’ invention of flight.  The city is home to the National Museum of the United States Air Force, some of the best private and public schools in the state, a vibrant arts and entertainment community and a beautiful system of parks, trails and river corridors.  For additional information, visit www.dayton.com.

Dayton Children’s Hospital is a 181-bed (soon to be 220 beds with opening of a free-standing Mathile Center for Health and Wellbeing), Level 1 Trauma Center, Magnet certified free-standing tertiary care facility serving a 20-county area in southwest Ohio and eastern Indiana, and is academically affiliated with Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine. Our physicians hold faculty appointments at the Boonshoft School of Medicine. Dayton Children’s has a medical staff of over 250 specialty physicians representing forty-three medical and surgical divisions. Annually, Dayton Children’s cares for 101,675 ED visits, 560,000 ambulatory visits, 13,000 surgical procedures and 13,659 inpatient stays.