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Upcoming Prenatal Information Sessions
Spread the word to your friends and family! Our upcoming prenatal classes are not to be missed. Sign up here!

Seasonal Vaccine Time!
It’s time! We are now giving flu and COVID vaccines for the season. We are seeing the signs of an early flu season, so don’t delay! As always, flu vaccine is recommended for all children ages 6 months and up. Like last year, the COVID vaccine is recommended for children ages 6 months – 2

Upcoming Medicaid Changes
At Pediatric Associates, we are dedicated to taking care of all children in our area and pride ourselves in accepting all insurance products. I recently learned that even our local safety-net hospital does not accept one of the managed Medicaid products that we take due to low reimbursement for services. However, many families that I

Virginia’s Insurance Marketplace
We hear you! Prices for everything are higher than ever, and from the gas station, to back to school sneakers, and insurance premiums, sticker shock is all around. Many families are having to cut corners and find it hard to keep healthcare in the monthly budget. Read on for more information from our health department

All You Can Ever Do Is Your Best!
Being a parent today is HARD! Our society treats your child’s attention as a comodity that can be marketed to and be profited from. Really smart people spend their time trying to create packaged foods, online content, and products that will addict them. It is an uphill battle that we all face against a world

RSV Season Approaches
RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) is another vaccination success story. Over the last 2 years that there has been RSV vaccine available to mothers and antibody available to infants, hospitalization rates for RSV have dropped dramatically. Again this year, we will have the infant antibody shot available to give eligible infants from Oct 1st through March