Pediatrics Northwest

Emerging practice

Pediatrics Northwest

Size

Large (>7 Physicians)

Geographic area

Suburban

Practice type

Loose Hospital Affiliation

Insurance status

• About half of the patients have Medicaid/Care Management
• A little under half of patients have private insurance
• A small portion of patients were uninsured

Race/ethnicity of patients served

• American Indian or Alaska Native: 0.5%
• Asian: 4%
• Black or African-American: 10%
• Hispanic/Latinx: 5%
• Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander: 0.5%
• White: 80%

Practice Modification due to COVID-19 Pandemic

• Adopted telehealth platform in two weeks
• Worked to maintain health supervision visits in-person visits while adding telehealth alternatives for younger patients
• Implemented perinatal mood disorder screenings across practice

Developmental Surveillance, Screening and Referral Modifications

• Trained 40 physicians and staff 4 times before work hours on Promoting First Relationships in the use of practical, in-depth, effective strategies for promoting secure and healthy relationships between caregivers and young children (birth to 5 years)
• Continued to partner with Reach Out and Read, a national nonprofit that promotes reading. During health supervision visits clinicians promote the vital importance of families/caregivers reading out loud to their children
• Introduced charting developmental surveillance information about all household members within the electronic health record
• Restructured staff roles to have medical assistants read developmental screening questions to families/caregivers when needed