Two suburban practices join PediaTrust

NORTHBROOK - PediaTrust, LLC, the largest independent primary care pediatric practice in Illinois, announced Pediatric Associates of Arlington Heights and Woodfield Pediatrics will join the organization.

PediaTrust, LLC is a single-specialty primary care pediatric network of seven Chicago area pediatric practices consisting of 38 providers. With the addition of these two practices, PediaTrust now has 54 providers at 15 locations and is able to provide comprehensive services including after-hours Care open 365 days a year, lactation consultation, an obesity program, and travel clinic services.

Pediatric Associates of Arlington Heights has five physicians at two locations, one on the Northwest Community Hospital campus and in Lake Zurich. The five physicians include Lalaine Vitug-Pacis, MD, Melissa Dianovsky, MD, Kiera Iannantuoni, MD, Rosanne Kason, MD, and Melissa Turner, MD. The physicians are on staff at Northwest Community Hospital and at Lurie Children's Hospital.

"Being part of PediaTrust will allow us to offer services to our patients that we could not offer as an individual practice," said Vitug-Pacis.

Woodfield Pediatrics is located in Schaumburg and is comprised of five physicians: Helen Minciotti, MD, Jocelyn Robertson, MD, Julie Goynshor, MD, Janice McLaughlin, MD and Jake Tabel, MD. The physicians are on staff at Northwest Community Hospital and at Lurie Children's Hospital.

"In this changing health care market, our practice felt it was important to become part of a large group

of like-minded physicians in order to maintain independence in our practice management and medical

decision making," Minciotti said.