Company Profile
University Pediatricians
Company Overview
University Pediatricians is the practice plan for the Department of Pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine. We are affiliated with Children's Hospital of Michigan, the only free standing children's hospital in the state. University Pediatricians is a not-for-profit corporation and serves all patients regardless of their ability to pay. Our mission is to provide essential access to care for a significant population of children with chronic illnesses within Michigan and the surrounding region. Ensuring that University Pediatricians can continue to serve our patient population is a key element to our contracting strategy.
Working in coordination with The Children's Hospital of Michigan we strive to improve the health and well-being of all children and their communities by advancing science and practice of pediatric health care and through advocacy programs.
The practice has over 180 pediatric physicians; over 150 of those are pediatric subspecialists. Annually, our practice sees over 96,000 Emergency Department visits, 79,000 outpatient visits, and 22,600 initial inpatient and observation days.
Our group provides medical services in all of the pediatric subspecialties listed below:
•Allergy/Immunology
•Adolescent Medicine
•Autism
•Cardiology
•Critical Care Medicine
•Emergency Medicine
•Endocrinology
•Gastroenterology
•General Pediatrics
•Genetics and Metabolic Disorders
•Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation
•Hemophilia Treatment Center
•Hospitalists
•Infectious Disease
•Neonatal and Prenatal Medicine
•Nephrology
•Neurology
•Pharmacology and Toxicology
•Physician Medicine and Rehabilitation
•Pulmonology
•Pediatric Prevention Center
•Rheumatology
•Sickle Cell
In addition to providing services on our main campus, we provide services at 21 other locations within 10 counties throughout Michigan. We provide medical education for pediatric residents and pediatric subspecialty fellowships each year. The Department of Pediatrics ranks 19th nationally in NIH research grants.
Our core values include compassion, integrity, innovation, respect and accountability. We instill these values in order to promote a family-centered system of care and prevention that will benefit children, families and communities. We educate physicians and other health care professionals in order to provide outstanding care. As an employee of University Pediatricians, we encourage you to take great pride in being a member of an organization that has an excellent reputation for helping children and their families. We strongly believe that each employee directly contributes to our overall success.