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Our Practice
Lexington Pediatrics, P.C. is a group pediatric practice. Our mission is to provide compassionate, thorough, up-to-date pediatric care for all of our families regardless of age, sex, race, medical complexity, or method of payment. We are affiliated with Children's Hospital Boston and with Harvard Medical School. Our physicians are actively involved in teaching residents and medical students. We are also active in the community, serving as medical consults for area schools, day care centers, and area children's groups.
The Lexington Pediatrics staff is made up of MD's as well as pediatric nurse practitioners (please click here for biographies of our staff). For details about the role of PNP's, please see What is a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. Our RN nursing staff handles most clinical phone calls through our Nurse Triage phone line, runs the flu clinics, and helps in assessing children who are being seen for sick visits.
Working Together
When your family joins Lexington Pediatrics, you will be asked to select a primary care physician (PCP).
Routine well-child checks are scheduled with your Primary Care Physician or a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. We work in loose "teams" and make every effort to ensure that you see the same MD and PNP for most routine visits.
While we make every effort to ensure that most of your child's visits will be with his PCP or PNP, there will be times--particularly for urgent care visits--when your regular doctor is not in the office or is unavailable when you need an appointment. For this reason, each practitioner in the office provides cross-coverage for the others. We all have ready access to your child's chart, results of tests done in our lab, and notes from specialists at Children's Hospital, and we do not hesitate to consult one another with questions.
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SPOTLIGHT
What is a PNP?
Our Pediatric Nurse Practitioner's see patients from the newborn stage through adolescence, for routine well-child checks as well as sick visits, follow up visits, lactation consultations, weight issues (obesity, eating disorders), asthma evaluations, wart removal, and gynecological examinations.
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Lexington Pediatrics is the oldest pediatric practice in the area. Founded in 1971, we have worked hard for nearly 40 years to create and maintain a medical 'home' for our pediatric patients from birth through their early 20's.
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