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PRACTICE ANNOUNCEMENTS: We welcome Dr. Ashley Bufe to our practice as of August 1, 2011. WE DID IT! As of September 2011 we are documenting every visit in our new state of the art EHR (electronic health record) It has been a long process and we thank each of you for your cooperation and understanding as we took on this huge project and continue to improve and enhance all the features. We now have our Self Check In kiosks (aka lemonade stands!), streamlined check in process, improved form and referral process working well. We have done thousands of “EMR updates”, putting our patients to work to provide the most current and important health, social, and family medical history so that each patient’s electronic chart gets off to the very best start. We continue to do these updates and input all the immunization and growth chart data to make your child’s new chart complete. Our E-Prescribing feature has been very well received and dramatically increases the efficiency and decreases any potential medication errors. Our ability to add clinical and educational features is enormous and we look forward to launching the Patient Portal October 2011, where you will be able to send and receive secure messages, make on line appointments, see upcoming appointments, fill out intake forms ahead of time which will populate directly into your child’s chart, request refills, view and print your child’s immunization record, and more! As of October 2011 please use the patient portal for form requests, record requests, and refill requests. Check out our policies regarding phone calls, forms, and medical record requests. Please read our more detailed letter to patients about our telephone and after hours protocol. (Aug 2009). Always call 404-508-1177 with an after hours urgent or emergent concern. A word about our phone system. Your calls are placed in a queue and answered in the order received. There are no more busy signals. If you are hearing our message while you are holding it is because there are other callers ahead of you in the queue. Your call will be picked up by the receptionist as soon as she is available. We monitor wait times and get to each call as quickly as possible. You are not holding just to listen to our message! We believe that talking to a live person is a personal touch worth waiting a few minutes for. The receptionist will make appointments, take messages for the nurse, answer non clinical questions or direct your call to the staff person who can best help you. Please remember that 8:30 am when we open is a busy time. It is a great time to call for same day appointments and urgent concerns. However, waiting a little later in the morning for routine questions and routine appointments will often result in quicker service. When your child is sick we hope you will read the information found within this site, and/or speak with our nurse. If you feel your child needs to be seen, call early on the day you need to come in.
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Date: 10/01/2011 |
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FLU VACCINE 2011 WHO? All children over 6 months, especially those with any underlying illness such as asthma. All parents, especially if there is a baby under 6 months at home. WHAT FORMULATION? This year there the vaccine was made against 3 strains that most likely will circulate this year– same strains as last year. To be protected a vaccine is necessary every year. We have: Preservative Free Fluzone shot for 6mo—3 yrs. Fluzone shot for 3yr and above and ALL PARENTS, FluMist nasal for 2 yrs and up with no underlying medical problem, including asthma, and any PARENT that desires. HOW MANY SHOTS? Children under age 9 get two shots, 4 weeks apart IF this year is the first time ever getting flu shot. All others get one vaccine between September and December. WHEN? We will vaccinate during Sept, Oct, Nov, and Dec We have plenty of vaccine (both VFC and private stock) and will continue to receive more every few weeks throughout the fall. Patients will have 3 convenient options: Regularly scheduled appointments, Daily flu shot appointments, and Flu Clinic. We will vaccinate at all regularly scheduled appointments throughout the fall. Parents can be vaccinated (bring $25.00 cash –sorry no credit/debit cards or checks, $35.00 for nasal mist) and siblings can be vaccinated at that time. Daily appointments are available for children and parents and can be made up to 2 days in advance by calling. (No email for these appts.) We know this method works - parents and children’s schedules change if made too far in advance, we can spread out the appointments and give quicker service, and we can adjust the number of appointments if we run low on vaccine until the next shipment arrives. We have ordered plenty of vaccine to meet your needs, and will keep vaccinating through November and December. Remember those calling for second shots must be at least 4 weeks from the first shot. Flu Clinic—Oct 5, 19 and Nov 2 For your convenience we will hold all day flu clinics on Wed. October 5th , Wed. October 19th, and Wed. Nov 2. You can come anytime between 8:30am and 5:00pm. You do NOT NEED to CALL or EMAIL for those 3 days—with our new Electronic Medical Record system you can come anytime, sign in and get your shot or mist. PARENTS—remember to bring $25.00 cash ($35.00 for FluMist) if want to be vaccinated. We will schedule additional clinic days as needed. |
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View our updated 2011 Flu Slide Show ….Symptoms, what to do at home, when to be concerned, when to call, and more. Visit CDC flu for more info about the flu and the vaccine
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