Children's Hospital Colorado


Coronavirus Updates

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. 

For ongoing updates, a list of open locations and how to get care virtually or in person, please see our coronavirus resources for parents and resources for healthcare professionals. For questions about visiting our locations, such as face covering requirements, inpatient visitation and outpatient appointments, please see our visitation policies.

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Children’s Hospital Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Avenue
Aurora, CO 80045

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If you're concerned that you or your child may have been exposed to COVID-19, please do NOT visit an emergency or urgent care location. Instead, call your doctor or our free ParentSmart Healthline at 720-777-0123 for guidance.

In life-threatening emergencies, find the emergency room location nearest you. For non-life-threatening medical needs when your pediatrician is unavailable, visit one of our urgent care locations.

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Jeffrey Darst, MD
Jeffrey Darst, MD

Jeffrey Darst, MD

  • Medical Director--Outpatient Cardiology, CHCO Anschutz Campus
  • Medical Director--Inpatient Cardiology Consult Service
  • Medical Director--Heart Institute Wellness Program

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  • Cardiology - Pediatric
  • Pediatrics

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We participate with most major health insurance plans and national transplant networks.

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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.

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Karrie Villavicencio, MD

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Megan Wilson, DNP, CPNP-AC

Megan Wilson, DNP, CPNP-AC

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Eduardo Da Cruz, MD

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Shelley Miyamoto, MD

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Aimee Irons, CPNP

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