We are your Patient Centered Medical Home

For acute care issues during working hours, your child’s primary care clinician (or another provider in our team if your child’s primary care clinician is not available) will see your child the same day. Simply call our main office number for same-day appointment. Please call our office before heading to the Emergency Room. Our providers are available even after business hours for telephone consultation.

As Your Medical Home, our goal is to make it easy and comfortable to get the care of your child’s needs in a way that works best for you. We are here to facilitate a personal partnership with you and your family to provide your child with the best quality, comprehensive and progressive primary care.

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Emergencies

For life threatening situations (seizures, severe respiratory difficulties, uncontrollable bleeding, near-drownings, penetrating wounds, loss of consciousness) call 911.

For situations that the “On Call” provider decides require immediate attention, you will be advised to go to the ER at Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville or Baptist Medical Center in Nassau. Be sure to follow your insurance policy regarding emergencies.

FIRST COAST PEDIATRICS PROTOCOL FOR COVID-19 (CORONAVIRUS) PER AAP AND CDC GUIDELINES

PARENTAL CALLS-

1) DOES THE CHILD PRESENT SYMPTOMS OF FEVER, COUGH OR SHORTNESS OF BREATH?

AND

2) HAVE THEY BEEN EXPOSED TO COVID-19 OR HAVE THEY TRAVELED OUT OF THE COUNTRY TO CHINA, ITALY, SOUTH KOREA, JAPAN OR IRAN?

IF YES TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS, GO DIRECTLY TO YOUR COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

IF NO, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT YOUR CHILD HAS A COLD.

CHILDREN DO NOT SEEM TO BE AT HIGHER RISK FOR GETTING COVID-19
WE CANNOT TEST FOR COVID-19
THERE IS NO VACCINE FOR COVID-19
CURRENTLY THERE IS NO TREATMENT OTHER THAN SUPPORTIVE MEASURES FOR THE SYMPTOMS
THE PEOPLE THAT ARE AT HIGH RISK FOR COVID-19 ARE OLDER ADULTS, PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS LIKE HEART DISEASE, DIABETES & LUNG DISEASE

PROTECT YOUR FAMILY BY…

WASHING YOUR HANDS OFTEN with soap & water for at least 20 seconds, if soap & water is not
available, use hand sanitizer
KEEP YOU CHILDREN AWAY FROM OTHERS WHO ARE SICK or keep them home if they are ill
TEACH CHILDREN TO COUGH & SNEEZE INTO A TISSUE or into their arm or elbow (NOT THEIR HANDS)
CLEAN & DISINFECT your home as usual using regular household cleaning sprays or wipes
AVOID TOUCHING YOUR FACE & teach your children the same
AVOID TRAVEL to highly infected areas