Bethany Children's Health Center

What Bethany Children's Health Center does

Bethany Children's Health Center is a non-profit pediatric healthcare organization founded in 1989 and headquartered in Bethany, Oklahoma, operating with 501-1000 employees. The center delivers a focused portfolio of child and adolescent behavioral health services, including inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient therapy, telepsychiatry consultations, school-based mental health programs, and crisis response coordination. It also provides rehabilitation, complex care, transitional care, outpatient, and community health services, positioning it as a specialty pediatric provider serving children, adolescents, and their families across Oklahoma and surrounding regions.

The business model is service-based and payor-mediated: revenue is generated through provision of behavioral health and ancillary pediatric services billed via insurance, Medicaid, and healthcare system contracts, rather than through consumer-facing pricing. Distribution occurs through direct facility-based care, telepsychiatry for remote access, school-based integration programs, and primary care coordination. The organization is led by CEO Nico Gomez, with Tom Richards as CFO and Mattie M. Mallory as founder.

Capital structure evidence indicates active scale-up: in July 2024, MidFirst Bank completed a $167 million loan transaction with the center, the largest disclosed capital event and indicative of facility investment and operational expansion. No public technology stack, AI capabilities, certifications, or intellectual property were disclosed in available sources, representing a data gap on the digital and clinical-innovation dimensions of the business.

Name

Bethany Children's Health Center

Website

https://bethanychildrens.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Bethany Children's Health Center is a non-profit pediatric healthcare provider in Oklahoma delivering inpatient, outpatient, and telepsychiatry behavioral health services, plus rehabilitation and community health programs, to children, adolescents, and families.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pediatric Healthcare Services

NAICS

Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420), Residential Intellectual and Developmental Disability Facilities (623210)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093), Services-Hospitals (8060)

akta.pro primary industry

Behavioral Health for Children & Adolescents (Youth Services) (HLAFACAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Pediatric Rehabilitation & Developmental Therapy Centers (PT/OT/SLP) (HLAFAJAL), Pediatric Specialty Care Centers (e.g., cardiology, oncology, neurology) (HLAFAJAH)

Keywords

• Pediatric rehabilitation services
• Children's behavioral health
• Telepsychiatry consultations
• Complex pediatric care
• Outpatient child healthcare

Headquarters

HQ city

Bethany

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Revenue: Revenue generated through provision of child and adolescent behavioral health services, including inpatient care, outpatient services, and telepsychiatry consultations. Healthcare services are typically billed through insurance, Medicaid, and healthcare systems.

Core offering

Bethany Children's Health Center provides rehabilitation, complex care, transitional care, outpatient, and community health services for children and adolescents. Its core specialty is child and adolescent behavioral health, delivered through inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient therapy, telepsychiatry consultations, school-based mental health programs, and crisis response coordination. Services are billed through insurance, Medicaid, and healthcare system contracts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pediatric Rehabilitation Services

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Shriners Children's: A large non-profit pediatric specialty system delivering complex, rehabilitative, and orthopedic care across multiple sites. Comparable to Bethany in non-profit, multi-service pediatric specialty delivery, though at substantially greater scale and breadth.
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP): A leading pediatric academic medical center offering inpatient, outpatient, behavioral health, and rehabilitation services. Comparable to Bethany across nearly all of its service lines (rehabilitation, complex care, behavioral health) but at significantly larger scale and research intensity.
• Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: A multi-site pediatric health system providing inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation, and behavioral health services. Directly comparable in scope of pediatric services to Bethany's integrated model, though at far larger scale and broader regional reach.
• Cook Children's Medical Center: A regional, non-profit pediatric system in Texas providing inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation, and behavioral health services. Comparable to Bethany as a non-profit integrated pediatric provider serving a defined regional catchment.
• Nationwide Children's Hospital: A large non-profit pediatric academic medical center offering inpatient, outpatient, behavioral health, and rehabilitation services. Comparable to Bethany's integrated pediatric delivery model, though at substantially greater scale and research depth.

Direct peers

• Rogers Behavioral Health: A non-profit behavioral health system specializing in mental health and substance use treatment, including dedicated child and adolescent programs. Most directly comparable to Bethany's pediatric behavioral health and telepsychiatry focus within a non-profit delivery model.
• Children's Specialized Hospital (RWJBarnabas Health): A pediatric specialty hospital focused on rehabilitation and complex medical care, with behavioral health programs. Highly comparable to Bethany's rehabilitation, complex care, and transitional care service mix within a non-profit pediatric specialty model.

Emerging players

• Brightline: A venture-backed pediatric and adolescent behavioral health provider offering virtual therapy, psychiatry, and coaching. Comparable to Bethany in pediatric behavioral health focus and use of telepsychiatry, but operating as a for-profit digital-native entrant.
• Hazel Health: A pediatric mental health company delivering teletherapy and psychiatric services in schools and to health plans. Overlaps with Bethany's school-based and telepsychiatry distribution model in the same pediatric behavioral health segment.

Regional players

• Akron Children's Hospital: A regional, non-profit pediatric hospital system providing inpatient, outpatient, behavioral, and rehabilitation services. Comparable to Bethany's integrated service portfolio and non-profit structure, though anchored in a different regional market (Ohio).

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/bethanychildrns

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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