Wareham Pediatric Associates Your Visit

We look forward to your visit at our office! 

There are forms that you can download and fill out prior to coming to the office. Filling these forms out at home gives you the chance to think about questions prior to your visit and help us serve your needs. (Please fill out a new Demographic Sheet whenever you change address or have a change in your household.)

Some general tips to help you get the most out of your child’s encounter in our office:

• Write down your questions prior to your visit.
• It is also necessary for you to be on time for your visit, this helps us stay on time. If you are running late, please call our office so we may reschedule your visit if need be. If you are more than 15 minutes late for your appointment, we will reschedule your child to our next available appointment.

Immunizations are one of the most important advances in pediatric health care. They have dramatically reduced illness and death in children and continue to be one of the most valuable and effective protections that parents can offer their children from early infancy.

The healthcare team at Wareham Pediatrics believes that one of our most important duties in caring for your child is to follow the immunization schedule recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control. We feel very strongly that children should be immunized according to the schedule recommended by these organizations, because this schedule provides the highest possible protection against serious and often life-threatening illness.

We believe that it is also our responsibility to keep our community free of potentially life-threatening infectious diseases whenever possible. Being sure that all our patients are uniformly immunized helps to accomplish this ethical obligation.

Please note that we strictly adhere to the recommended guidelines. Our practice is not a good fit for families who do not intend to follow the recommended guidelines for routine immunizations.

We are happy to answer any questions that you have about vaccine preventable illnesses and your child’s vaccine schedule.

Separation & Divorce Policy

Wareham Pediatrics will remain neutral in all divorce/separation disputes. Our primary responsibility is to provide quality pediatric care to our patients. We assume that children are in the joint custody of their parents and that both parents have rights to view their child’s medical records and make medical decisions, unless we have been provided with court documents that clearly stipulate otherwise. The parent accompanying a child to a visit will be assumed to have medical decision-making rights. We will not be responsible for informing the non-accompanying parents of the details of the visit. Parents are expected to work out a system of communication that does not require us to act as mediator. All of our communications will be with parents; we will not have any communication with lawyers involved in custody disputes, unless required to do so by court order.

We are contractually obligated to collect a copay at the time of service. Whomever accompanies the child to the office is expected to pay the copay at the time of the visit. Occasionally a child’s health insurance is provided by a non-custodial parent. Because our provider-patient relationship exists with the care-taking parent in these circumstances, the ultimate responsibility for payment rests with the adult who accompanies the child to the office.

We reserve the right to ask families to leave our practice if a custody disputes interferes with our ability to care for a child or conduct our daily business.