About me
Since 2017, Janine A. Rethy, MD, MPH, FAAP, has served as Division Chief, Community Pediatrics, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She serves as the Medical Director of the KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic, and Director of Medical Education for Community Pediatrics, Pediatric Lead on DC Safe Babies Safe Moms, as a DC Area Health Education Center (AHEC) site director, and as the Principal Investigator on several other program and research grants.
Throughout her career, she has been committed to helping families and communities to become healthy and thrive, decreasing health disparities, and teaching the next generation of community-oriented health care providers. Special areas of expertise and focus in pediatric primary care include nutrition, early childhood health and development, adolescent health, dyadic mental health, breastfeeding medicine and asthma.
Her clinical programs and research center on holistic and integrated approach to health care by centering on families and communities, building inter-professional models, addressing social and structural determinants into the primary care setting, and optimizing health systems delivery to decrease barriers, improve access, breakdown silos along the health care continuum, and enhance clinical-community linkages.
Dr. Rethy is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, and serves in many service and leadership roles within MedStar Health, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
About Community Pediatrics
The Division of Community Pediatrics at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital assures that all children in the D.C. area, regardless of insurance status, have access to comprehensive, coordinated and compassionate health care. Serving more than 1100 children and their families with over 3500 patient visits annually, the KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic and our school-based health clinics provide holistic integrated primary care, right in the neighborhoods that need it the most: Wards 4, 6, 7 and 8.
Clinical areas of focus
- Behavior Concern
- Cough
- Ear Infections
- Feeding Problems
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
- Headache
- Newborn Care
- Newborn Feeding Problems
- Seasonal Allergies
- Sleep Disorders
- Well Child Exam
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Abdominal Distention
- Abdominal Pain
- Aggressive Behavior
- Anal Fissure
- Anxiety
- Behavior Concern
- Behavioral Disorders
- Blocked Tear Duct
- Blood In Stool
- Breastfeeding Problems
- Breathholding Spells
- Cellulitis
- Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder
- Colic
- Conduct Disorder
- Conjunctivitis
- Constipation
- Cough
- Cradle Cap
- Depressed Mood
- Depression
- Destructive Behavior
- Developmental Delay
- Diarrhea
- Disruptive Behavior
- Ear Infections
- Eczema Herpeticum
- Enuresis
- Failure To Thrive
- Feeding Problems
- Fever
- Food Allergy
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
- Headache
- Impetigo
- Irritability
- Labial Adhesions
- Learning Disabilities
- Leg Pain
- Lice
- Lymphadenopathy
- Neonatal Acne
- Newborn Feeding Problems
- Novel Coronavirus
- Otalgia
- Pertussis
- Pharyngitis
- Respiratory Syncytial Virus
- Scabies
- School Anxiety
- School Related Problems
- Seasonal Allergies
- Skin Disease
- Sleep Disorders
- Sleep Terrors
- Snoring
- Sore Throat
- Stomach Pain
- Strep Throat
- Teething
- Tinea Capitis
- Tinea Corporis
- Tinea Cruris
- Tinea Pedis
- Toilet Training Issues
- Underweight
- Urinary Tract Infection
- Vomiting
- Weight Problem
Procedures I perform
- Autism Testing
- Blood Test
- Breastfeeding Support
- Camp Physicals
- Developmental Assessment
- Examination Of Eyes
- HIV Testing
- Newborn Care
- Novel Coronavirus Testing
- Novel Coronavirus Vaccine
- Novel Coronavirus Vaccine Booster
- School Physical
- Sports Physical Exam
- Travel Medicine
- Travel Vaccination
- Visual Field Testing
- Well Child Exam
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Carefirst BlueChoice HMO
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- United Golden Rule
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- Kaiser Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Aetna Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- CareFirst BC/BS Advantage Core/Enhanced
- United Optimum Choice
- Virginia Premier
- Cigna Preferred Medicare
- Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- Cigna Choice Fund PPO
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Carefirst Healthy Blue (HMO/POS)
- Cigna POS/Network POS
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs (HSCSN)
- Cigna EPO
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- United GEHA (for all other states) Compass Rose
- Innovation Health: PPO
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- Anthem Plus BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- United Select Plus (POS)
- Anthem (POS & Open Access POS) BCBS of VA HealthKeepers
- WellPoint Maryland
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network (VA CCN)
- HumanaChoice Honor’s plan PPO
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Open Access
- Kaiser HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Kaiser Medicare Plus
- United Choice Plus
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- Medicaid - Maryland
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- United Choice
- United Student Resources
- Cigna POS Open Access & Open Access Plus
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Carefirst BlueChoice Open Access
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Aetna Open HMO/Open HMO Option/Open EPO Plus
- United Core Essential (HMO)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- United Erickson Advantage Plans
- Cigna Indemnity
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- United Navigate
- CareFirst Blue Card Program (Out-of-area BCBS plans)
- Cigna HMO & Network (HMO)
- Cigna Network Open Access
- United Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- United Nursing Home Plan (C-SNP
- United Mamsi Life & Health
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Tricare for Life East
- Cigna PPO and PPO Plus
- United MD IPA Preferred (POS)
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Cigna HMO Open Access
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- United Group Medicare Advantage Plans
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Anthem HMO - BCBS of VA HealthKeepers
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- United Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- I-SNP
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- United MD IPA (HMO)
- Innovation Health: Open POS II
- CareFirst NASCO
- Kaiser Signature
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Aetna HMO
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Tricare East Prime
- United Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Medicaid - Virginia
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Innovation Health: POS
- United Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO)
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Traditional Medicare Fee for Service
- United Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Kaiser Flexible Choice
- Carefirst EPO
- Aetna HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- CareFirst Administrators
- United AARP Medicare Complete
- Innovation Health: HMO & EPO Plus
- D-SNP)
- Kaiser Select-Added Choice
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- Beech Street PPO
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Carefirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Aetna Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Medicaid - District of Columbia
- Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Tricare East Select
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO) |
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Kaiser Select
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- First Health PPO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
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Education
Board Certification: American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics
Residency: Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai (2006)
Residency: Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai (2003)
Medical School: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (2000)