Patient Care
The Division of General Pediatrics strives to provide the highest quality clinical care in the setting of a world-class Children’s Hospital, where patients have access to national leaders in all fields of child health care. Members of the Division participate in an academic practice that combines all of the inpatient and outpatient elements of a pediatric medical home. Our pediatric practice is open to all children, independent of their cultural, ethnic, socioeconomic and religious heritage. Care can begin in our Newborn Nursery, on the inpatient units of the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital, or in one of our outpatient clinical sites. These sites, located within the Children’s Hospital, at our satellite specialty clinic site in Mountain View, and our affiliated community pediatrics site in East Palo Alto, all provide exemplary care for healthy children as well as children with special health care needs. This section of our website provides additional details about each aspect of our academic practice. A brief overview of our practice follows on this page, with links to additional information about each aspect of our practice:
Outpatient primary care is provided by members of the Division of General Pediatrics in a hospital-based clinic and a community-based primary care setting. Located across the street from the Children’s Hospital, the Primary Care Clinic provides comprehensive care to children from birth through 18 years of age, as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Physicians and allied health professionals also provide coordination of care for children with special health care needs, particularly children who are seen in the pediatric specialty clinics of the Packard Children’s Hospital. At the Ravenswood Family Health Center, a community health center in East Palo Alto, children from the community also receive comprehensive primary care from members of the Division of General Pediatrics in a setting close to home in a caring, and culturally sensitive manner, regardless of ability to pay. This clinic, which is the only federally funded nonprofit community health center in San Mateo County, offers the full array of primary medical care and prevention services to underserved and uninsured ethnic minorities and low-income families. Faculty physicians and allied health professionals work closely with community agencies to improve the quality of care to children with chronic conditions such as asthma and obesity by standardizing clinical practice and collaborating with community partners
As national leaders in the development of innovative treatment approaches to the increasing problem of childhood obesity, members of the Division of General Pediatrics opened the Pediatric Weight Clinic at our satellite specialty facility in Mountain View. The Weight Clinic provides consultation and treatment for children and adolescents whose weight poses significant medical and psychological threat to their well-being. In addition to providing cutting edge approaches to treatment of child obesity through supportive behavioral change, directly through our clinic and through our Pediatric Weight Control group program, our faculty works closely with members of the Divisions of Adolescent Medicine and Pediatric Surgery in the only multidisciplinary adolescent bariatric surgery program in Northern California.
Inpatient care is provided at three locations by members of the Division of General Pediatrics. At the Children’s Hospital, our faculty cares for healthy newborns and collaboratively with Neonatologists in the Johnson Center of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. At the Washington Hospital in Fremont, the Division also cares for healthy and ill newborns, with referral to the Johnson Center at LPCH as needed. At both LPCH and our satellite inpatient unit at the El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, our hospitalist group oversees the inpatient care of children with the full array of pediatric illness, including those with highly complex and potentially life-threatening disease.
