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Why Crystal Run?

Many Specialties in Each Facility
Physicians of Distinction
Equipment at the Vanguard
Leverage with Managed Care
Proven Business Practices
The Freedom to Lead Your Practice

It is a practice unlike any other. A vast spectrum of health care in one place. A community of distinguished physicians in diverse specialties. Equipment possessed by few practices—even hospitals—anywhere in the world. The freedom to lead change, direct your practice, and spend real time with patients, one on one.

A single visit bears this out. There’s something different here—a new model for practicing academic-quality medicine with a level of compassion rarely seen in health care. The kind of atmosphere that allows you to thrive…and make a difference.

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Many Specialties in Each Facility

Each of Crystal Run Healthcare’s locations is a facility designed by physicians for physicians… containing, within tens of thousands of square feet, nearly the entire spectrum of health care:

  • Allergy & Immunology
  • Cardiology
  • Colon & Rectal Surgery
  • Dermatology
  • Diagnostic Imaging
  • Endocrinology
  • Family Practice
  • Gastroenterology
  • General Surgery
  • Geriatrics
  • Hematology & Oncology
  • Infectious Disease
  • Inpatient Medicine
  • Internal Medicine
  • Internal Medicine/Pediatrics
  • Nephrology
  • Neurology
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology
  • Orthopedic Surgery
  • Otolaryngology
  • Pain Medicine
  • Pediatrics
  • Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  • Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
  • Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
  • Rheumatology
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Surgical Oncology
  • Urgent Care
  • Urology

*coming soon

Within these facilities are features that transcend the state of the art. A wireless network connecting everyone on staff. The most robust IT platform available today. Best-of-class laboratory and imaging equipment. An elegance and interior design more often seen in a fine hotel than a physician’s office.

The benefits of such a place are significant. For patients, Crystal Run Healthcare means satisfying most healthcare needs in one location. For you, it offers the chance to practice medicine in a leading-edge facility…with a level of collaboration and consultation that most physicians can only dream about.

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Physicians of Distinction

Our more than 120 physicians physicians are board-certified or board-eligible in their respective specialties. Many have served as full-time faculty at leading medical schools. Some participate in clinical trials sponsored by national cooperative groups, academic medical centers, or pharmaceutical companies. And all work side by side to foster a remarkably collegial environment—where collaboration between family practitioners and cardiologists, oncologists and radiologists, surgeons and internists happens every single day.

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Equipment at the Vanguard

The right resources can help transform good health care into great health care. For that reason, Crystal Run Healthcare spares no expense in creating an optimal health care environment for patient and physician alike.

Such an approach has put us in the vanguard of medical technology, with the latest in diagnostic imaging, endoscopy, information technology, and lab facilities. To cite but a few examples:

  • We were the first facility in the region to acquire a digital mammography unit—one of only 20 in New York State and 350 worldwide at the time the system was installed. To this day, we remain the region’s only facility so equipped.


  • Our in-house imaging capabilities are second to none, with MRI, multi-slice CT, echocardiography, nuclear medicine, ultrasonography (including the new GE “4D” ultrasound), and bone densitometry. Our fully digital diagnostic imaging, with advanced GE PACS, is another regional first.


  • We are among the scant 3% of physicians nationwide who utilize electronic medical records (EMR)—a groundbreaking tool to identify patients at risk, reduce error, and enhance communication within the healthcare team.


  • Our practice includes the first accredited echocardiology laboratory in New York State—an accreditation that, in Massachusetts, first went to the echocardiography laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.


  • We are among the first to use computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) with digital mammography to further enhance the diagnostic value of breast cancer screening.


  • Our state-of-the-art endoscopy suite provides unsurpassed patient comfort and convenience while greatly enhancing patient compliance with recommendations for colon cancer screening.

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Leverage with Managed Care

At Crystal Run Healthcare, physicians make medical decisions in the best interests of their patients, without worrying about managed care constraints. The reason? Our size, scope, geography, and stature—as the premier group practice in our region—set us apart in the minds of managed care executives. As a result, we are “managed” less, and accommodated more, than less substantial practices.

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Proven Business Practices

Underlying Crystal Run Healthcare’s phenomenal growth is a proven business model. Sophisticated yet responsible marketing has resulted in near-universal name recognition throughout the Crystal Run region. Advertising campaigns highlight individual physicians, specialties, and services, as well as the practice as a whole. All marketing, whatever the scale, is tailored to convey the core message of the Crystal Run brand: There’s a name for better healthcare.

Guiding this and other business practices is a well-engineered model of managerial excellence. We carefully select and enhance our mix of specialties and services, principally for the health of our patients, but also for the successful growth of the practice.

This proven yet progressive business model has delivered results. In a few short years, the founder and managing partner, Hal Teitelbaum, M.D.—a board-certified internist, medical oncologist, and hematologist with an MBA from Columbia Business School—has helped shape Crystal Run Healthcare into one of the most innovative, successful, and rapidly growing multi-specialty groups in New York State. Even more important, he is united with his medical colleagues in an uncommon dedication to the highest ideals of patient care.

The result: a practice that, for you, is as rewarding financially as it is professionally.

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The Freedom to Lead Your Practice

To build your practice the way you want. To care for patients the way you care best. Few things are more important to those of us who practice medicine. Yet few things are lost more quickly at a “big practice.”

Here too, Crystal Run Healthcare is different.

It is why we take pains to encourage every physician to play an active role in the development of the practice. It is why physicians in new specialties get to help build their own division from the ground up. It is why we designed our innovative financial structure to reward each physician for his or her unique contribution to Crystal Run Healthcare.

The ability to develop your unique practice. The distinguished colleagues and advanced resources of a large practice. Put them together, and you get the optimal environment for the practice of medicine.

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