Klemt receives unanimous ballot support for chief-elect role
When Ryan Klemt, MD, Emergency Medicine, joined Platte Valley’s medical staff in 2013, the landscape was very different.
“We were a small community hospital with a quiet ER,” said Klemt. “We’re now a Level III Trauma, Stroke and Chest Pain Center in one of the fastest-growing regions of the state with plans to expand our ER and double our emergency beds within the next several years.”
You can hear his smile over the phone; he’s looking forward to it. And thanks to the unanimous vote of the active members of the medical staff, he will help lead the hospital into it. Effective July 1, Klemt will become Platte Valley’s next chief of staff-elect and serve with Donald Rabor, MD, Cardiovascular Disease, who becomes the new chief on the same day.
Rabor replaces Angelo Dilullo, MD, Anesthesiology, whose two-year term as chief of staff ends on June 30.
“Aside from being a top-notch clinician, Dr. Klemt has distinguished himself as an able and willing leader,” said Dilullo. “I’m confident he will be an outstanding chief of staff when the time comes and will represent the medical staff with fairness, integrity and attention to detail.”
Klemt currently serves as the chair of Peer Review and member of the Credentials Committee, which he also previously led as chair. Those leadership positions and more than a decade providing care in the Emergency Department, care that branches into every area of the hospital, make him uniquely qualified for the executive leadership track.
“Every time I turn a corner here I bump into a physician whom I know and worked with to improve care and patient flow through the hospital,” he said. “Often at meetings, I’m the physician with the longest tenure.
“As this community grows and we evolve to meet its expanding and likely more acute needs, I want to continue to push for the highest-quality care, better pathways and growth opportunities, and a supportive and collegial environment for physicians.”
Klemt grew up in Wyoming, where he met Amy, his wife and once high-school sweetheart. He went to medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Their adventurous spirit has taken them and their three children all over the world, instilling in all of them a love of travel. This photo from Honduras was taken during the kids’ Thanksgiving break last year. Recently, they traveled to Iceland and Japan (the kids’ favorite), and a return to southeast Asia is on the bucket list.
Back in Colorado, Klemt praises the current Senior Leadership Team for its vision and support and encourages physicians to reach out to him with any questions, concerns and suggestions at ryan.klemt@imail2.org.