BHS Grad Kayla Fain Knotts Using Holistic, Standard Approaches in New Pediatric-Based Medical Business
By Jeff Toquinto on May 19, 2025
A 2011 Bridgeport High School graduate is not only running her own business, but she is doing so in a manner that aims to make children healthy.
Kayla Fain Knotts, a pediatric nurse practitioner is operating The Pediatric Perspective. The business opened in 2024.
“We opened … with the goal of providing quality pediatric care that is accessible whenever parents need it. We operate via telemedicine in the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia and offer home visits to patients in areas surrounding Morgantown, Uniontown, and Cumberland,” said Knotts. “As a parent and someone who is holistically minded, our business partners with parents to get to the root cause
of their children’s chronic illness and complex behavioral diagnoses by using specialized testing to screen for gut problems, food allergies, heavy metal and mold toxicity; as well as a wide array of other problem areas in their day to day lives.”
of their children’s chronic illness and complex behavioral diagnoses by using specialized testing to screen for gut problems, food allergies, heavy metal and mold toxicity; as well as a wide array of other problem areas in their day to day lives.”
According to Knotts, the business is on the unique side. She said The Pediatric Perspective utilizes traditional medical care when needed but has the flexibility of offering a holistic approach with natural remedies and lifestyle changes to support children’s health.
“We pride ourselves on being accessible and supportive to parents, which led us to our cash-based business model, allowing us to spend all the time we need to help families without the restrictions imposed on us by insurance company reimbursements,” said Knotts.
Knotts earned her master’s degree in nursing with a specialty in pediatric nurse practitioner in 2019 from West Virginia University. She has a dozen years of experience working including time with her business, in a pediatric step-down unit, PICU, and NICU.
“Upon deciding to branch out, after realizing the power of alternative approaches for my own two children, I completed several hours of 
pediatric functional medicine training in 2024,” she said.
pediatric functional medicine training in 2024,” she said.
Now, she is taking her knowledge and helping families – and their children – improve on the health front. Currently, the physical location of the business is in Ridgeley, West Virginia, which is near Cumberland in Maryland.
“We do have the physical location, but a lot of our visits are done through telemedicine,” she said. “This has done well because people throughout this region generally have to travel to Baltimore or Morgantown because of a lack of resources due to the rural nature. That same rural nature, I think, has people looking for what we offer with a more holistic lifestyle.”
Knott is a one-person operation. Even with that, the business is growing steadily, even faster than she expected. And she is doing that along with continuing to be a mother to her two children.
“Motherhood in general makes thins more complicated,” she said with a laugh. “But the telemedicine provides the flexibility of seeing patients when the kids are in school … I’ve been able to incorporate all of this into a busy life.”
It was one of her children that helped lead Knotts down this career path. She said her daughter has ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) and she found out quickly that resources were not only hard to come by, but options to standard treatment were also not readily available.
“That was a big driving factor … I wanted an alternative to what was out there, and what was out there was hard to get,” she said. “For a frame of reference, to get into neurodevelopment at WVU, it’s an eight-month wait. Finding resources is difficult, and once you do you have to wait. For those like my daughter, it’s an underserved population.”
Knotts realized if she was looking for something closer, something more convenient, something holistic, that others had to be too. From there, The Pediatric Perspective was born.
“We’re a cash-based business, and that deters some people,” she said. “But avoiding the insurance hoops means we can get someone in with our services within the same week. I’m here to help with that.”
To learn more about her business and find contact and even information on how to book an appointment, visit the Web site by clicking HERE. There is also a Facebook page, HERE, where individuals can use the Messenger function to contact Knotts.
Editor's Note: Top photos show Dr. Kayla Fain Knotts with daughter Oakley, son Samson, and fiance Cody Dolly. All photos provided by Stephanie Fain.
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