Rita Pappas

Rita M. Pappas, MD, FAAP, FHM is the Medical Director, Hospital Operations within the Division of Medical Operations at the Cleveland Clinic. She has direct oversight of the following areas within Hospital Operations: Admission and Transfer Center (Main Campus, 9 regional hospitals, and Florida) and Bed Management. Dr. Rita Pappas is a Staff physician in the Department of the Pediatric Hospital Medicine, located on the main campus of Cleveland Clinic. She was appointed in 2004.

Dr. Rita Pappas has been appointed as a fellow in the American Academy of Pediatrics and Society of Hospital Medicine. She is board-certified in Pediatrics. She currently serves as a member of the Corporate Compliance Committee, and Strategic Space Committee. Her specialty interests include medical operations, patient flow, pediatric hospitalist medicine, residency education, patient safety, and care paths.

She is committed to family-centered care and is a physician leader in family-centered rounds - listed as a "Best Practice" by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). Since 2007, she has been awarded the recognition as a physician recognized in Best Doctors in America. Dr. Rita Pappas participates readily in resident education and medical education at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. She is a co-investigator of the 4 year grant from the Macy Foundation (Interprofessional Learning Exchange in Practice) to refine, implement and test a scalable model for interprofessional clinical education. She is also the coach for the ACGME Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments Grant for the Cleveland Clinic.