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Getting Your Child's Appointments Back on Track

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If you’ve been putting off care for your child, know that Renown Health is prepared with updated processes and procedures to ensure safety for you and your little ones.

Doctor Max Coppes, MD, PhD, MBA, Physician-in-Chief of Renown Children’s Hospital, is concerned there could be an outbreak of serious illnesses if parents continue to delay getting their children immunized. Dr. Coppes and team understand your anxieties when it comes to visiting your pediatrician, and would like you to know; not only are well visits important to assess your child’s overall health, crucial vaccinations are administered to guard your little ones against disease.

Immunizations

Immunizations protect children from communicable diseases. Other benefits include:

  • Children that are unable to have vaccines due to age or illness are protected through herd immunity
  • Vaccinations are at given at specific intervals, and missing an appointment may put your child behind schedule
  • Elderly populations are protected where immunity may be decreased

Dr. Coppes states, “What we have noticed nationwide, and also in Washoe County, is that the number of kids immunized has gone down by about two-thirds. If that goes on, we’re just waiting for chickenpox, measles, any of those childhood diseases that were eradicated to come up again.”


4 Easy Ways to Schedule an Appointment:

  1. Call Us: 775-982-KIDS (5437)
  2. Request Appointment Online
  3. MyChart
  4. Virtual Visits

In-Person Wellness Visits/Checkups

Maintaining your child’s health is important! Contact your pediatrician to schedule an in-office visit. When you call to make an appointment, you’ll talk to a specialist at our Customer Care Center who will screen you to make sure you and your child have not been exposed to someone with COVID-19, and ensure symptoms of a respiratory illness are not present.

Virtual Visits

When appropriate, many pediatric appointments are available through virtual visits. Please call 775-982-KIDS (5437) to request a visit with your child’s established provider.

All virtual visits require a MyChart account. Don’t have a MyChart account? You can easily sign up online. If you need assistance with your MyChart account, please call 775-982-6686.

Virtual visits are able to connect to an ASL interpreter (sign language interpreter), and 37 languages including Spanish.

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