We are now booking Well Child Virtual Visits. Please read below before your visit to make sure you are prepared:

We are trying our very best to adapt our care model for our families here at Roslindale Pediatrics, as we know this is a difficult time for everyone. This week, all of our providers became trained in doing virtual visits and have had great success in making these effective.

If your child is 18 months or older and had a check-up scheduled in the last few weeks or has one coming up in the next few weeks, our office staff will be reaching out to see if you prefer a virtual visit. We may need to adjust the time and date of your appointment. If you have any questions about whether or not an online visit is appropriate for your child, please call us to discuss it. Don’t forget to answer unidentified calls because many of our staff members are working to return your messages remotely!

We want to remind you in order to utilize a virtual visit you MUST have a MyChart account. If the child is 13 or older, they have to create their own account, a child under 13 can use the proxy account. These virtual visits will be covered just as if you were coming into our practice for office visits. The virtual visits will have the same copayment and deductible rules as apply to in-person visits. Visits related to COVID-19 have no co-payment.

We look forward to seeing you whether it's in the office or online and thank you for your trust in us when it comes to taking care of your child. Please see the parent guide below for what you should do before a virtual well-visit.

Parent Guide:

Please refer to our Virtual Visit Guide to make sure you are on MyChart, have the MyChart App and Zoom App on your phone

For virtual visits there are limitations when compared to in office visits. We cannot test your child’s vision or hearing, perform parts of the exam, give vaccines, or obtain bloodwork. If your provider feels these are necessary for your child’s annual exam, we will contact you once we feel it is safe to return and we can perform these tasks in the office.

Tracking your child’s weight and height are an important part of annual check ups, and we are hoping you can check these at home prior to the visit. Below are instructions on how to do this.

We also would like to track our patient’s blood pressures. We understand that most families do not have access to this at home, but if you do, please obtain your child’s blood pressure prior to the visit as well.

There will also be a screening questionnaire attached to the visit, please make sure this is completed prior to the appointment as well.

For the appointment, we recommend that you and your child are in a quiet room with good lighting. For our patients 13 and older, we also prefer to speak with them alone, so having a place where they can talk in privacy is recommended.

To make parts of the exam easier to perform, we are asking that our patients wear their bathing suit under their clothes. We have decided not to perform sensitive parts of the exam including the breast and genital exam, but if you have concerns about these areas please bring it up during the visit.

Once the visit is over, we can load your child’s good health form onto the mychart patient portal. You can access it at any time and print it as well.

We will reach out to you in the future to set up a time for your child to return to the office if indicated.

Before the Virtual Visit be sure to:

Weigh the child

Use a scale to weigh your child in light clothing without shoes on. Record the number to give to the provider during virtual visit.

For 9 and 18 month olds:
- First the parent must weigh themselves on the scale (without the child). Record this number.
- Next, weigh yourself while holding the naked child. Record this number.
- Child’s weight = (parent & child weight - parent weight)

If possible, try to obtain the child’s heart rate

If you have a fit bit or apple watch you can use this.

If possible, obtain the child’s blood pressure

If there is a blood pressure machine at home use it to obtain the blood pressure of the child 3 years or older.

Measure height for children 2 years and older

First have the child take their shoes off.
Have them stand against a doorframe with their feet flat on the floor and heels touching the wall.
Make sure they look straight ahead, if possible, mark their height in pencil on the door frame
Using a measuring tape (inches side), measure from the floor up to the mark or to the top of the child’s head.
Record height.

The CDC has a site with more information on how to obtain your child’s height and weight:

https://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/assessing/bmi/childrens_bmi/measuring_children.html

Fill out pre-visit screenings in MyChart.