In Fiscal Year 2025 (July 2024–June 2025), the Thompson Center for Autism & Neurodevelopment provided 17,689 patient visits, a remarkable 17.63% increase from FY24!
This marks one of the largest annual increases in the Center’s 20-year history. For families, that number means more children receiving life-changing diagnoses, more parents getting answers and support, and more specialists helping chart the path forward.
Ben Black, MD, FAAP, Medical Director of the Thompson Center, credits the achievement to teamwork and ingenuity, “It is a total team effort to take care of that many patients and families,” Dr. Black added “we’ve already started FY26 on a high note. In July alone, we saw more patients than in any single month of the entire previous year.”
This growth comes at a pivotal moment, as the Thompson Center prepares to move into a new, state of the art facility designed to expand services, and provide a more comfortable, welcoming environment for families. The expanded Center will double patient rooms, add more top-tier clinicians and launch innovative programs for patients and families.
Dr. Black explained there were several factors that led to the Center’s ability to see more patients in FY25, “Adding providers was an important piece, of course. But it took more than that. We’ve had to be flexibly creative in use of our current space, our Patient Service Representative and Nursing teams have worked hard to make sure patients are being scheduled timely, and our providers often add patients to their already full clinical schedules.”
Looking ahead, Dr. Black says, “The number of patients we see will only continue to increase. We’re already planning changes to the way we engage with families at the time of initial referral. Those changes will include earlier clinical evaluation by one of our experts, increasing the frequency and timeliness with which we can help families. We are also adding more providers, broadening our scope of services, and developing more flexible evaluation procedures. All of these initiatives will allow us to serve many more patients.”
“We’re not just growing in numbers,” Dr. Black noted. “We’re growing in how we connect with families, how quickly we can get them seen, and how we tailor our services to meet their needs.”
