The new Summit Pediatrics office at Quinn’s Junction realizes a vision founding partner Leslie Webster said she’s had for eight years.

The office is in the Park City Clinic’s new building near the Park City Medical Center. That hospital was envisioned as a hub where Park City’s health care community could come together, she said.

Summit Pediatric’s five physicians now see babies born at the hospital and are able to continue caring for them until they reach adulthood, said partner Lena Terry.

It facilitates the mission to become a “medical home” for patients. That’s a term used in the profession for practices that enroll care providers, patients and patient families together in maintaining good health.

At Summit Pediatrics, that means physicians Webster, Lena Terry, Monica Schaffer and Kathy Ostler know the families of their patients and know their colleagues’ patients. They’re also active in community outreach and with their own children.

Quinn’s Junction is Summit Pediatric’s fifth home in eight years. Ostler helped design the space. It has 12 exam rooms one of which is large enough to apply casts and splints, something the old office near Canyons was too small for.

That many rooms also provides the staff space to take on a fifth physician, Katherine Lavender, who works a few days a week and is at the Primary Children’s Medical Center emergency department in Salt Lake City other days.

“The medical assistants’ space is also bigger and allows them to stay together. And we needed places to meet,” Ostler said.

“Our communication is so much better now,” Schaffer said.

And patient privacy is better protected in the larger office, Terry said.

All four physicians said they are proud of Summit Pediatrics because of their practice philosophy. So many clinics encourage doctors to see as many patients as possible, Schaffer said.

“We’re about helping kids achieve their full potential,” she said.

Ostler said she joined the group in 2001 because she wanted to be a community pediatrician in a way not possible in large cities.

“We see our patients all over town,” Schaffer said.

Terry recently attended Park City High School graduation ceremonies and saw many of her first patients there. She was amazed how many of the children she knew.

The four are also involved in local schools. Webster speaks to classes about drug and alcohol use. Terry teaches maturation classes to younger children and Ostler works with special needs children, Schaffer said.

The school programs allow their patients to see them outside of the clinic and feel more comfortable visiting them in the clinic, Webster said.

Summit Pediatrics

750 Round Valley Drive, Suite 102 (first floor)

655-0926