Pediatric Kidney Specialist Enhances Care for Kids

Alejandro Quiroga, MD, has joined the Spectrum Health Medical Group. Dr. Quiroga is a pediatric nephrologist and provides care to infants, children and adolescents with hypertension, urologic kidney disease, chronic or acute kidney failure, dialysis-dependent kidney failure and transplantation.

In addition to clinical care, Dr. Quiroga is interested in nephritic syndrome, hypertension and transplant nephrology. He provides care on an outpatient basis at his office at 35 Michigan Street in downtown Grand Rapids and at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Quiroga is board certified in pediatrics. He earned his medical degree from Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario in Bogota, Colombia. Dr. Quiroga completed a pediatric residency at Miami Children’s Hospital and a pediatric nephrology fellowship at The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York City.

The Spectrum Health Medical Group currently employs more than 560 physicians and mid-level providers, including nurse practitioners and physician assistants.

Spectrum Health is a not-for-profit health system in West Michigan offering a full continuum of care through the Spectrum Health Hospital Group, which is comprised of nine hospitals including Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, a state of the art children’s hospital that opened in January 2011, and 190 service sites; the Spectrum Health Medical Group and West Michigan Heart, physician groups totaling more than 600 providers; and Priority Health, a health plan with 625,000 members. Spectrum Health is West Michigan’s largest employer with more than 18,000 employees. The organization provided $176.5 million in community benefit during its 2011 fiscal year. In 2011 and 2010, Spectrum Health was named a Top 10 Health System by Thomson Reuters.