Children's Hospital Colorado


COVID-19 Vaccine Update

Children’s Colorado is now offering the COVID-19 vaccine to community members ages 16 and older. Learn how to sign up to get vaccinated. For complete COVID-19 resources, please see our resources for parents and families and resources for providers.

We’re here to deliver safe, thoughtful, high-quality care for kids who need it. Learn what to expect – including visitation policies and all the ways we’re keeping patients safe.

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

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Jeffrey Darst, MD
Jeffrey Darst, MD

Jeffrey Darst, MD

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

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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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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.

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  • English

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Aimee Irons, CPNP

Aimee Irons, CPNP

Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

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Madhukar Kollengode, MD

Madhukar Kollengode, MD

Cardiology, Internal Medicine

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Robert Bishop, MD

Robert Bishop, MD

Cardiology - Pediatric, Critical Care - Pediatric, Pediatrics

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Matthew Stone, MD

Matthew Stone, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiac Surgery, Surgery

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Bethany Diamond Primeaux, DNP, CPNP, MESS

Bethany Diamond Primeaux, DNP, CPNP, MESS

Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

Sonali Patel, MD, PhD

Sonali Patel, MD, PhD

Cardiology - Pediatric, Pediatrics

Megan SooHoo, MD

Megan SooHoo, MD

Cardiology - Pediatric, Critical Care - Pediatric, Pediatrics

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Jennifer Rafter, PNP

Jennifer Rafter, PNP

Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

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