Hospital for Children
Divisions/Specialties
Division of General Pediatrics
The Division of General Pediatrics offers continuing comprehensive
care to children from infancy through early adulthood. Specialty consultation
for adolescents by Board Certified adolescent specialists is available.
Patient Conditions
- Complicated medical problems
- Chronic illness
- Children from poorly functioning families
- Primary care
- Impaired growth
- Sexual abuse
- Emergency care
- Adolescent HIV
Research Activities
- Respiratory viruses
- Vaccines
- Vulnerable children
- Minority health
- Health care service access
- Outcomes research
- Adolescent parenting and healthcare
Special Programs
- The Pediatric Ambulatory Center serves children from birth through
age 21. Many patients have complex medical and psychosocial problems. Uninsured
children receive care on a sliding fee schedule using Title V Funding.
- The new Adolescent Center provides comprehensive services for adolescents
in an environment that is teen friendly and includes the expertise that teens
with complex biomedical and psychosocial needs deserve.
- Growth and Nutrition Center provides home-based intervention for
children under two years old who are demonstrating impaired growth.
- Full-Term Nursery provides care for up to 24 full-term infants
Services to Physicians
- Consultation on complicated cases
- Second opinions
- Evaluation of patient conditions
- Special treatment procedures
- Short-term and long-term management
This page was last updated on: May 22, 2007.
For more information about UMHC or to make an appointment,
please call
1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).
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