History
In 1987, the Pediatric Specialists with primary or secondary appointments in the
Department of Pediatrics at the Eastern Virginia Medical School formed Pediatric Faculty Associates,
a nonprofit faculty practice plan jointly owned by the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
and the Eastern Virginia Medical School. This concept was favored because the leadership of
the respective parties concerned, understood that there's a difference in both the practice
of medicine and economics in pediatric medicine versus adult medicine. Pediatric Faculty Associates
functioned as intended, growing the pediatric subspecialty care available to the children of Hampton Roads.
New pediatric specialties were added and others were expanded.
In 1996, leadership at the Eastern
Virginia Medical School decided that the school would benefit from having a single practice
plan, which incorporated adult and pediatric medicine. The physicians within Pediatric Faculty
Associates felt that the pediatric population was best served by the current model and to that
end formed a private physician owned practice, Children's Specialty Group, PLLC in February 1998. Since
Children's Specialty Group, PLLC was formed, pediatric subspecialists comprising the group have
continued to grow in number, as well as, diversification in specialties covered. A division of
pediatric dermatology has been added and the divisions of pediatric gastroenterology,
endocrinology, critical care, emergency medicine, infectious disease, allergy/immunology,
cardiology, as well as, other divisions of pediatric specialties have grown in numbers.
Children's Specialty Group, PLLC today continues to grow, by adding pediatric specialist
to participate in providing services to the residents of Newport News, Hampton,
Williamsburg and York County through a new location at the Children's Hospital of
The King's Daughters Medical Building, Oyster Point. Ninety percent of the physicians that in
1998 formed the present day Children's Specialty Group, PLLC remain with the group.
Children's Specialty Group, PLLC looks to the future with an eye toward continuing to
bring in board certified pediatric subspecialists to provide a wide variety of care in
meeting the needs of the children of Hampton Roads.