Speaker: Alexis Del Palazzo, CD/Partner
Alexis Del Palazzo: Hi, my name is Alexis Del Palazzo. Hi, my name is Alexis Del Palazzo. I'm a clinic director and partner with Ivy, and I've been with Ivy for almost 4 years. I started as a staff clinician and then transitioned into clinic director and partnership role in the past year.
Why did you decide to partner with Ivy to open your own clinic?
Alexis Del Palazzo: I decided to partner with Ivy because I was exploring ways that I could move back to my home region. I was practicing and working in the Philadelphia area and wanted to move back to where I grew up in Southwest Virginia and connecting with my leadership and having these discussions about expanding into a new market, allowed me to combine my desire to be closer to my family while also working to pursue my own professional goals and development, is why ultimately led to that decision.
What did the support and resources look like for an Ivy de novo partner?
Alexis Del Palazzo: As an Ivy De Novo partner, the support and resources that I've been given to open my clinic, have been excellent. I went through mentoring and, weekly one on one meetings with my immediate manager, to ensure that I was building up the skill set and the knowledge base I needed to hit the ground running when my clinic was ready to open. I was also given the opportunity to attend the De Novo Business School, which provided, a bigger picture and insight into the De Novo process and what that looked like for me and what my responsibilities are as a partner. And then also the, the business marketing and development. Those have been huge pieces of support, to allow me to enter a new market and to start building relationships with my, my physician referrals and also increasing brand awareness in the community.
What advice would you give to someone interested in opening your own clinic?
Alexis Del Palazzo: Advice that we give to someone interested in opening their own clinic is first check in with yourself. Doing a values check, do your values align with your organizational values? And in terms of your own professional and clinical growth, are there specialty populations that you want to treat? Do you want to leverage those skills into building a clinic around those specialty populations that you would like to treat? And then keeping it people first, so thinking about what kind of team you want to build and ways that you can do that within your own clinic. Getting clear on all of those elements and, and mapping out that path for your own personal growth while integrating that into the opportunity for clinic partnership, helps go a long way to ensuring that when you're ready to open your clinic, you are setting yourself up for success.
