Noah’s Ark
PEDIATRICS · VALPARAISO, INDIANA

A small pediatric practice for families who want the time, continuity, and attention the work actually requires.

By annual membership. One physician. For the long arc of childhood.

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01 · The Practice

What this is, plainly.

Noah’s Ark Pediatrics is a small practice that operates on a hybrid model — an annual administrative fee paired with insurance for clinical care. The fee underwrites what conventional reimbursement no longer supports: longer visits, one physician, real continuity, and a panel small enough that those things are honored in practice and not just in promise.

Families pay a modest annual administrative fee, and clinical care continues to be billed through your insurance. The administrative fee underwrites the time, attention, and access that conventional pediatric reimbursement no longer supports — longer visits, direct physician communication, and a small, well-known patient panel.

We participate with most major insurance plans for clinical services. The annual fee is straightforward and the same for every family. We are glad to discuss the details before you join.

The panel is deliberately small. That is what makes it possible for the physician to know each child personally, return calls directly, and hold the kind of continuity that pediatric medicine quietly requires over many years.

The Practice in Numbers
Model
Hybrid (fee + insurance)
Panel
Smaller and better known
Well-child visit
Extended
Physician
One. Always.
02 · Commitments

Six promises the model makes possible.

These are not aspirations. They are the operating premises of the practice — the things the membership fee and the small panel are designed to deliver.

I · Time
Visits long enough for the work.
Forty-five minutes for a well-child visit. An hour or more when a child or a question calls for it. We do not bill by the minute, so we do not measure by it either.
II · Continuity
One physician. From infancy onward.
Children are seen by the same pediatrician from their first visit through adolescence. There is no rotation, no triage to mid-level providers, no handoff.
III · Access
Direct phone, direct text, direct email.
Families reach the physician directly — not a portal, not a phone tree. Routine matters are handled by text or email; urgent matters by phone, answered.
IV · Rhythm
A calendar shaped to serve the work.
The clinical year is approximately thirty weeks, organized around the arcs of the school year and the family year. Care is steady because the schedule is honest.
V · Particularity
Care that knows your child.
When the panel is small enough, the physician carries each child’s history in real time — not as a chart query, but as recognition. That is the difference the model is built to preserve.
VI · Vaccines
An open conversation, not a script.
Vaccines are discussed at this practice, not dictated. We talk through the schedule, the evidence, and the questions families actually have — on the family’s timeline, with the family’s judgment respected.
03 · The Physician

David J. Dimitroff, MD.

The whole of the practice is built around one pediatrician. The form of the work and the form of the physician’s life are not separable; the practice exists to make both possible.

Dr. David J. Dimitroff, MD
David J. Dimitroff
MD · Pediatrics
Founder & Pediatrician
Noah’s Ark Pediatrics
David and Laura Dimitroff
With Laura Dimitroff, RN — co-founder and pediatric nurse,
a presence in the practice from its first day.

Dr. Dimitroff has practiced general pediatrics since 2020. He launched Noah’s Ark Pediatrics in 2023 as a small solo practice serving Northwest Indiana families on a hybrid model of annual administrative fee paired with insurance. The practice was co-founded with his wife Laura, RN, a pediatric nurse known to most families and actively involved from its first day.

He completed medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine and his pediatric residency at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital. The years since have been spent asking, in earnest, what general pediatrics could become if it were practiced more slowly, with fewer families, by one physician who stays.

His intellectual formation is in the Catholic tradition — in philosophy, in the anthropology of childhood, and in the older disciplines of attention that good medicine quietly shares with good craftsmanship. The practice takes its name and its image from that tradition. It does not require any of it of the families it cares for.

Medical School
Indiana University
School of Medicine
Pediatric Residency
UCLA Mattel
Children’s Hospital
Board Status
Diplomate, American
Board of Pediatrics
Practicing Since
2020
Noah’s Ark Est. 2023
04 · Joining the Practice

Our panel is currently full. We welcome you to the waitlist.

To keep visits unhurried and care continuous, we deliberately limit the size of our practice. Please share a few details below so we can reach you.

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