Adoption Medicine Clinic

Name

Adoption Medicine Clinic

Legal name

Adoption Medicine Clinic

Website

https://adoption.umn.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1986

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Pediatric Specialty Healthcare - Adoption Medicine

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (62411)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Practices (HLAFAJAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Child Welfare, Foster Care & Adoption Services (BPAGAEAE)

Keywords

• Adoption medicine services
• Pediatric specialty care
• Foster care healthcare
• Trauma-informed care
• Child wellness assessments

Headquarters

HQ city

Minneapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Clinical Healthcare Services: Fee-for-service clinical healthcare services provided to families with adopted and foster care children. Services include preadoption consultations, medical reviews, screening protocols, and comprehensive wellness assessments. Revenue is generated through insurance reimbursement and patient payments for healthcare services.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Adoption Medicine Clinic provides specialized outpatient clinical care for children adopted domestically, internationally, or in foster care. Its core offering is the Comprehensive Child Wellness Assessment (CCWA), an interdisciplinary evaluation delivered by a team of pediatricians, psychologists, and occupational therapists. The clinic also delivers preadoption consultations and medical record reviews, post-adoption and foster care screening protocols, and ongoing clinical services addressing medical, developmental, and psychological needs resulting from early adversity.

Product overview

The Adoption Medicine Clinic (AMC) at the University of Minnesota provides a comprehensive suite of medical and support services for families with adopted children and children in foster care. The clinic operates as a unified outpatient healthcare program offering preadoption services (consultation, medical reviews, travel support), post-adoption screening protocols for both adoption and foster care placements, and ongoing clinical services. The core offering is the Comprehensive Child Wellness Assessment (CCWA), which provides interdisciplinary evaluations through pediatricians, psychologists, and occupational therapists. Educational programs include AMC Rotation for medical students and the AMC Symposium for professionals. The clinic also provides resources and publications for families and professionals. Founded in 1986, AMC is a healthcare service provider, not a technology product company.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Preadoption Consultation

Quantifiable outcome

• First program of its kind globally, establishing the adoption medicine field
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Federally funded network advancing trauma-informed care for children, including those in foster care and adoption. Adjacent to AMC's trauma-informed clinical model and a likely conduit for research collaboration and referral pathways for affected families.
• Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption: National nonprofit focused on adoption and foster care advocacy, research, and education. Not a clinical peer, but adjacent in the adoption ecosystem and a likely channel partner for awareness-building and family referrals into AMC.
• Childhelp: National nonprofit addressing child welfare issues including abuse and neglect. Adjacent to AMC's trauma-informed and early-adversity focus rather than a clinical competitor, but serves overlapping populations of at-risk children and families.

Direct peers

• Cincinnati Children's International Adoption Center: Direct peer operating a specialized international adoption clinic offering comprehensive pre- and post-adoption evaluations by a multidisciplinary team. Targets the same adoptive-family demographic with a similar interdisciplinary-care model.
• Floating Hospital for Children / Tufts Medical Center International Adoption Clinic: Direct peer providing pediatric specialty evaluations for internationally adopted children through an academic medical center in the Northeast. Competes for families seeking adoption-medicine expertise in a region without an in-house program like AMC.
• Boston Children's Hospital International Adoption Program: Direct peer offering specialized preadoption reviews and post-adoption medical evaluations for internationally adopted children through a major academic pediatric center. Competes for the same referral pool of adoptive and foster-care families seeking adoption-medicine expertise.
• Lurie Children's Hospital International Adoption Medicine: Direct peer running a dedicated international adoption medicine clinic at a leading academic children's hospital. Provides preadoption consultations, medical record reviews, and post-arrival assessments, making it the closest Midwest comparable to AMC outside of Minnesota.

Broad incumbents

• Mayo Clinic Children's Center: Broader Minnesota-based academic pediatric system with subspecialty capacity. Overlaps with AMC in serving complex pediatric cases in the upper Midwest and offers an alternative referral destination for families seeking pediatric specialty expertise.
• Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA): Broad incumbent large pediatric academic medical center in a major adoption-active metro. While not exclusively focused on adoption medicine, CHLA's scope and pediatric specialty capacity overlap with AMC's role for families in the western U.S.
• University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital / M Health Fairview Pediatrics: Broader pediatric care system within the same university enterprise, including the Voyager Clinic location referenced in AMC's data. Provides the inpatient, specialty pediatric, and referral infrastructure that supports and surrounds AMC's outpatient adoption-medicine practice.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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