Welcome to Pediatric and Adolescent Practitioners

When you have chosen to “come grow with us," you will have selected a well-established practice that is committed to working closely with patients and their families to accomplish mutual health goals. With more than 60 years of service to the pediatric community, our practice maintains a high level of commitment for the total health needs for every child. We serve children from birth through adolescence and encourage families to communicate all aspects of their child's life, so that we can be their medical home.

E Visit Policy

To provide better care to you, our patients, we will be transitioning how we handle Pink Eye (or suspected Pink Eye) and Diaper Rash. For these concerns, we ask that you use MyChart to start an E Visit.

This is not a telehealth visit where you see a doctor face to face—but it gives you access to a doctor via MyChart messaging, so we can help address your concerns. The Doctor will review your message, pictures, and answers to our questionnaire - and then message you back.

To begin an E Visit in MyChart, you can select the "send a message" button and then select "E Visit" from the options to get started. From there you can select your concern (Pink eye, Rash) and answer some questions. We also ask that you include a picture of your child's eye or rash.

With this change, we will no longer call-in medication for these conditions without an E Visit or an in­ person visit. This is effective Feb. 1, 2024.

If appropriate - we will be able to provide daycare letters as needed for these concerns with the E visit.

We are initiating this policy so we can provide better care. We want to avoid missing more serious infections, avoid overusing antibiotics, and still be able to get your child back to health and to school or daycare in a timely manner!

We believe this policy change will decrease the time it takes you to reach us, while improving the care we provide.

Allergy Shot Procedure Hours

Our allergy shot procedure hours will be changing temporarily! We will only be offering these procedures Monday - Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. and Friday, 3:15 p.m., by appointment.

Well Visits

INFANT CARE

In order to have a healthy and happy baby, doctor visits and immunizations are appropriately scheduled. Here are the recommended ages for well visits:

• 5 days
• 2 weeks
• 2, 4 and 6 months
• 9 and 12 months
• 15 and 18 months
• 2 years and annually thereafter

CHILD CARE

Regular office visits give us the opportunity to monitor your child’s growth and development. During checkups, the doctors will perform a physical exam, conduct screening procedures, and discuss educational development.

ADOLESCENT CARE

Checkups during adolescence are important so that the teen is able to participate fully in school, sports, camps, and other activities. Care is given to address common adolescent concerns such as acne, depression and mental health, weight or eating problems, sexuality, and substance abuse.

Sick Visits

When your child needs to be seen due to an illness, same day appointments are always available. Please call the office as early as possible for an appointment time. Note that a full checkup can not be done during the appointment set for a sick visit. Should your primary pediatrician be fully booked or out of the office, you will be scheduled with one of our other doctors.

Prescription Policies and Information

Prescriptions and refills will be handled at scheduled office visits and enough medicine will be prescribed to last at least until the patient’s next appointment. Since we expect to fill prescriptions at the office visit, running out may be a signal that it is time to call our office to schedule an appointment. We request patients be seen annually for routine medication refills. If your prescription insurance plan requires a prior authorization for a medication, you will be responsible for obtaining a Prior Authorization Form from your insurance company for your physician to complete. While our office staff and physicians do their best to help patients obtain their maximum prescription benefits, insurance plans, including drug coverage plans, are a contract between the patient and the patient's insurance company. 

If you need to change pharmacies or change your prescription to mail order, the law in the State of Ohio permits non-expired prescriptions to be transferred to the new pharmacy without charge or interruption. In the case of most mail order pharmacies, they disregard this provision and require prescriptions to be re-written. In the event that this is preferred by the patient BEFORE their next routine visit, the patient has a couple of choices:

1. Make an appointment to see the doctor for repeat refills
2. Wait for their next regular visit to change pharmacies
3. There is no fee for the patient's physician to review their medical records and re-write the prescription - which will then need to be picked up at the office. Lost prescriptions for controlled medications (such as pain medications, sleeping aides, etc.) will not be replaced

We discourage the practice of calling in prescriptions as it does not allow the patient or the doctor to re-evaluate the appropriateness of the prescription, and follow the condition for which the medication has been prescribed. We do not accept calls from pharmacies to refill medications. When pharmacies call us, we request contact directly with the patient.