• Monday to Friday - 9am to 5pm
• Saturday (urgent care only) - 9am to Noon

• Try to arrive a short time before your scheduled appointment (10 minutes) to allow time to check in. If this is your first visit, download and complete our online forms so you can see the doctor more quickly.
• Have your questions written down so that you don’t forget anything important you want to ask.
• Be sure to understand our diagnosis, instructions for treatment and symptoms to watch out for.
• If you are asked to bring your child back for a follow-up visit, please do so to ensure that the original problem has been resolved. We’ll both feel better.

In an effort to minimize exposure to illness, we have partitioned our waiting room into separate well and sick waiting areas. Transmission of most colds and contagious diseases is through direct contact with respiratory droplets and not through the air. Ultimately, frequent hand washing minimizes transmission most. Your child’s health and safety are our priority. We aim to maintain quality patient care, efficient patient flow, and minimal wait time.

Keeping the well-child well is one of the major goals of pediatrics. During a well-child visit, we are mainly concerned with observing your child’s growth and development, counseling parents, and familiarizing ourselves with your families. This often enables the pediatrician to detect subtle physical or behavioral problems at an earlier stage, before they become more difficult to treat. Typically, the well-child check-up involves interval history, physical examination, child observation, screening tests, anticipatory guidance, problem counseling, and immunizations when required.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends routine, interval visits for preventative health care and immunizations; our usual schedule is as follows: 2-3 days, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, 15 months, 18 months, 24 months, and then yearly until age 18. If we are treating a chronic condition in your child such as Asthma or ADHD, we will require that your child have a yearly well-child exam in order for us to monitor the condition and continue to prescribe medications.

We believe that your sick child should be seen on the day that you call. If your child is ill and needs to be seen, please call at 9:00 a.m. (or at the earliest possible time) so that we may schedule your child as early as possible for a same-day appointment. If you are uncertain whether you need to have a physician look at your child, please call at 9:00 a.m. and talk to the nurse so that she may advise you. Also, if your child’s condition worsens, call in for an earlier appointment.

The physicians at Centennial Pediatrics try to be considerate of your time. Occasionally there will be an unexpected office emergency, but in general we run very close to schedule and our parents are very appreciative. Please be considerate of others, and be on time for appointments so that we can keep you on time. If you do show up late for an appointment and it runs into the next, we may have to reschedule or try to work you back in later. Also, if an appointment is made for one child and you think another child needs to be seen, please schedule a separate appointment for that child before coming to the office, so that we can allot the appropriate time.

Certain problems may require extended consultation time in addition to the standard well-child or sick-child visit. If your child has a special problem, please inform the receptionist when you schedule the appointment so that we can allow additional time to discuss it with you. Examples of these include: bed wetting, school problems, learning disabilities, hyperactivity, behavioral problems, developmental delay, mental retardation, complex medical problems and physical handicaps.