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Pediatrics

Experience ranges from institutionally related inpatient and outpatient agendas to activity with pediatricians in hospital-based and private practices, as well as joint ventures between hospitals and private practitioners.

Project Examples

  • Establishment of several pediatrics single-specialty, sub-specialty and primary care multi-specialty satellites. Encompassed strategic planning from concept and location selection, physician placement and/or recruitment, to site development, operations assistance and marketing.
  • Conversion of pediatric clinics to private practice models.
  • Pediatric ambulatory market development for children's hospitals including:
    • Identification of key market locations;
    • Identification and recruitment of pediatric practices for affiliation;
    • Integration of solo practitioners into pediatric groups or primary care pods;
    • Conversion of hospital-based pediatric clinic to private practice model;
    • Operations assessment involving re-engineering and systems development; plan for multi-site "practice without walls" concept for pediatric subspecialists.
  • Group formation between independent pediatric practices.
  • Formation of 80-physician Pediatric IPA.
  • Strategic planning-related activity for pediatrics includes:
    • Feasibility analysis for pediatric heart transplant program;
    • Demand analysis for relocation of specialty children's hospital;
    • Institutional strategic plan for a children's hospital;
    • Concept development for pediatric multi-specialty mall.
  • Program development
    • Development of pediatric trauma team for acute care medical center;
    • Pediatrics marketing plans for pediatric units, included day-stay program; parent-involved care, specialty services;
    • Development of child psychiatry program and summer camp for psychiatric hospital;
    • Establishment of hospital-sponsored mobile teams to provide school physicals;
    • Joint child abuse prevention project for specialty children's hospital and urban medical center;
    • Adolescent medicine services development.