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Normal life looks a lot different these days, especially in healthcare. But there is one thing that hasn’t changed at Children’s Colorado: Your child’s health and safety are our highest priority. Kids need great pediatric care as much now as ever, and it’s for that reason that we’re reactivating services we temporarily suspended due to the pandemic. We are here to deliver safe, thoughtful, high-quality care for kids who need it. Learn what to expect – and all the ways we’re keeping patients safe.
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Jeffrey Darst, MD
- Medical Director--Outpatient Cardiology, CHCO Anschutz Campus
- Medical Director--Inpatient Cardiology Consult Service
- Medical Director--Heart Institute Wellness Program
Provider's Specialties
- Cardiology - Pediatric
- Pediatrics
Provider's location(s)
- Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora
- Outpatient and Urgent Care, Wheat Ridge: Temporarily Closed
- South Campus, Highlands Ranch
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Insurance plans accepted
We participate with most major health insurance plans and national transplant networks.
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My care philosophy
To try to understand how children and adolescents perceive their symptoms, their illness or their disease...and to start there, at each visit. To help teach young people that symptoms and disease may be part of their life, but that it does not define them.Get to know Jeffrey Darst, MD
Departments and Programs
Conditions Treated
- Congenital Heart Defects (CHD)
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Stress
- Anxiety
Languages spoken
- English
Experience and background
See above.
Undergraduate 1998
Vanderbilt University (TN)
Medical School 2002
University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Residency 2005
Oregon Health & Science University, Pediatrics
Fellowship 2008
University of Colorado, Pediatric Cardiology
Fellowship 2009
Children's Hospital (Boston) Program, Congenital Catheterization
Patient Satisfaction Award 2013
PRC
Fellow Teaching Award 2013
Pediatric Cardiology Fellows
Patient Satisfaction Award 2014
PRC
Patient Satisfaction Award 2015
PRC
Patient Satisfaction Award 2016
CHCO
Williams Syndrome Association Heart Award 2017
WSA
Patient Satisfaction Award 2017
CHCO
Patient Satisfaction Award 2018
CHCO
Patient Satisfaction Award 2019
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