What's New?

It's time to schedule summer well-care exams for school, sports, and camp! Consistent with guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics, we recommend well care exams every year beginning at age two. If your child will be playing high school sports or going to camp this summer, he or she will need an up to date physical exam. We strongly recommend against seeking camp or sports physicals at retail based health clinics or urgent care facilities, as providers at these clinics have no access to a patient's medical record or health history. At each well care exam, our providers thoroughly review your child's history and make sure that he or she is up to date on all immunizations. If it has been over a year since your child's last well care exam, please speak with one of our Care Coordinators to schedule an appointment as soon as possible, as our summer well care schedule fills up quickly. As always, please check with your insurance company to learn about your well care coverage, as some plans may not cover annual well care exams or immunizations.

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Recently, the pneumococcal vaccine (Prevnar) has been reformulated to protect against the 13 most serious types of pnuemococcal bacteria. This is an important improvement over the previous formulation which protected against only 7 types of pneumococcal bacteria. The new Prevnar vaccine (Prevnar 13) will be administered to infants in four doses, given at their 2, 4, 6 and 12 month well care appointments. Because the new Prevnar vaccine (Prevnar 13) is more comprehensive in protecting against serious pneumonia infections (as well as some ear infections), children under five years of age who have completed the 4 dose series with the previous formulation (Prevnar 7), should be given one supplemental dose of the New Prevnar vaccine (Prevnar 13).

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We've recently made some changes to our telephone policy and nurse advice line that help us provide services to you based on urgency of need. In addition, we've put together some "Tips for Calling Our Office" which outlines our phone policies regarding making appointments, using our nurse advice line, requesting prescription refills, what to do when the practice is closed, and how best to communicate with a provider. We encourage all patients / parents to review this new information on the Phone Directory page of our website.

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Advanced Pediatrics is happy to announce the addition of Dr. Samuel Schimelpfenig and Dr. Deborah Chen-Becker to our practice! Dr. Schimelpfenig joins us from Castle Rock Pediatrics and will be seeing patients at both the Aurora and Centennial offices. Dr. Chen-Becker joins us from Rocky Mountain Youth Clinics and will be seeing patients primarily at our Aurora office. Read more about Dr. Schimelpfenig and Dr. Chen-Becker on the Provider Staff page of our website. Advanced Pediatrics carefully selects new physicians based on academic and professional achievement, and we are confident patients will be impressed with the level of care they provide!

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