Visits
Well Child Visits
We schedule well-child visits to coordinate with the immunization schedule at one week, 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 15 and 18 months, 2 years and annually after that. As part of our preventive care, we follow the guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which is dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
These routine well-child visits are important to assess your child's proper growth, nutrition and development, to perform a physical exam to be sure your child is growing big and strong, to ensure proper immunizations are given as well as to answer your concerns. Please try to develop a habit of jotting down questions about your child's health or behavior at home to discuss at your child's well-visits.
To be certain that we are able to care for sick children on the day you call and to prevent overbooking, we limit the number of well child visits in any day. Therefore, it is best to plan ahead and book your child's well visits ahead of time, as you are leaving is a good idea.
Teens & Young Adults
As our young patients grow older, they take more responsibility for themselves and for their own health care. We want them and their parents to know that we view them as our patients, and that our primary concern and responsibility is for them and for their needs. We encourage our adolescent and young adult patients to speak with us directly, and to feel free to discuss with us any concerns that they may have about their health and about their bodies.
On some occasions, there will be issues that our patients discuss with us that will be confidential in nature. We encourage discussion of these issues, because we feel that our patients deserve the right to have a physician who can listen to these issues and respond to them. It is our policy when dealing with adolescent and young adult patients to keep confidential any issues that our patients request us to, with the sole exception of issues that might be serious enough to be life-threatening.
Emergency Care
If your child has an emergency that threatens life or limb, call 911 for assistance or go directly to the Emergency Room at York or Memorial Hospital. If you can possibly call us first, we can notify the hospital of the emergency and facilitate your child's visit.
If you call after-hours for a problem and the pediatrician on-call tells you to go to the Emergency Room, please call the office the next day so that we can follow-up on the ER treatment. This call to the office is especially important if your insurance requires a referral to cover the ER visit.
We can usually see some emergency problems right away, including those with small lacerations (cuts), burns, eye injuries or minor fractures whenever possible during office hours. Please call the office first (press 0), to make sure a pediatrician is available, rather than just coming to the office.