MEDNAX, Inc. (NYSE: MD) has completed the acquisition of Children’s Health Network (CHN), a physician group practice that provides a variety of inpatient pediatric physician services at 11 hospitals in four states.
CHN was started in 1996 as a pediatric critical care practice providing services at a Las Vegas, Nevada, hospital. Today, physicians practicing as part of CHN provide patient care at neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, pediatric emergency departments and through pediatric hospitalist programs at hospitals in California, Nevada, Montana and Louisiana.
“We’ve grown beyond a traditional physician group because we consider several stakeholders as part of our vision of care, from our hospital partners to other clinical professionals involved with caring for our patients,” said James Swift, M.D., who founded CHN and will continue to lead the group as part of MEDNAX’s Pediatrix operating division. “Pediatrix has a similar vision, and we look forward to the opportunities that will come from collaborating as part of a much larger network to gather outcomes data and to improve patient quality within our pediatric subspecialties.”
CHN physicians staff two neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Las Vegas, Nevada, and one in southern California that have combined annual patient volume of approximately 25,000 patient days. The 12 neonatologists will practice as part of Pediatrix’s national physician group practice, which now consists of more than 850 neonatologists