Outpatient Care
Primary Care Clinic
The Primary Care Clinic at the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital provides comprehensive care to children from birth through 18 years of age. A full array of primary care services, including checkups and vaccinations, is provided by house staff from the Pediatric Residency Training Program at the Packard Children’s Hospital under the supervision of faculty from the Stanford University School of Medicine, many of whom are leaders in General Pediatrics regionally and nationally http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/. The Primary Care Clinic offers all components of pediatric care, as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Well child visits are provided at recommended intervals throughout infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and include physical examinations, screening of vision and hearing, as well as routine screening for anemia and other conditions. 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.
Treatment for all routine childhood illnesses as well as for common developmental and behavioral disorders is also provided to children who receive their routine pediatric care at the Primary Care Clinic. Seven days a week, parents have access to medical advice by telephone during normal business hours as well as after hours. Appointments for all ill visits are scheduled through the nurse advice telephone line. Patients who need consultation with pediatric specialty physicians have ready access to all of the specialty clinics at the Packard Children’s Hospital.
Families whose primary language is not English are welcome to schedule appointments in the Primary Care Clinic. Interpretation services are provided for all non-English speaking patients and their parents. Health education materials are also available in many languages.
The Primary Care Clinic accepts insurance payment from many private and government plans. For additional information regarding the Primary Care Clinic, or to schedule an appointment, please call 650-497-8820.
Pediatric Weight Clinic
The Pediatric Weight Clinic provides comprehensive multidisciplinary evaluation and treatment of childhood and adolescent obesity. Initial evaluation includes a medical work-up, referral for diagnostic testing and subspecialty consultation as indicated. Subsequent evaluation includes a complete nutritional analysis and plan of treatment from a registered dietitian. Follow-up visits are tailored to provide ongoing medical management of obesity and nutritional support for family-based behavioral changes in diet and activity. Other team members who might participate include a pediatric social worker, psychologist, physical therapist, exercise physiologist, and nurse coordinator. Teenagers with significant comorbidities of obesity and a BMI >35 are eligible to join the adolescent bariatric surgery program, a collaborative effort between Adult and Pediatric Surgery, Adolescent Medicine, and General Pediatrics. Weight Clinic team members are available to community physicians for discussion of individual cases and for group presentations on obesity and related subjects.
