At Gwinnett Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, our goal is to provide your children with quality health care. To ensure that everyone receives the service their health requires, we have employed the following list of policies. We ask that you please respect these policies when bringing your children to our offices or communicating with our staff. Thank you.
A Conservative Pediatric Philosophy
Gwinnett Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine is proud to provide traditional, conservative health care in agreement with recommendations and guidelines offered by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
We do not experiment with unproven alternative-medicine practices but instead prefer to provide you with the highest quality of medical care, firmly grounded on established and time-tested medical practices and research. This philosophy governs our actions in many areas of medical care-giving including Compliance with recommended vaccination schedules for childhood immunizations, judicious use of prescriptions, and avoidance of alternative treatment regimens and herbal remedies.
Simply put, we value you and your child and are unwilling to provide you with any level of care we deem experimental or unproven. To ensure proper preventative care, we follow the vaccination schedule as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. We understand that you may have questions about these vaccines. We are happy to discuss each vaccine, recommend reliable resources for you to get more information, and answer any questions you may have. If you decide you do not want your child to receive vaccines, we will ask that you find another medical home for your child. Please feel free to discuss this with any of our providers.
Shared Care Policy
Our practice is committed to providing comprehensive, continuous primary care. To ensure the safest and most effective care, we do not participate in shared primary care arrangements where a child routinely receives primary care services from more than one pediatric practice.
We ask families to choose one primary care practice to coordinate well-child care, immunizations, sick visits, and ongoing medical management. This approach helps maintain accurate medical records, improves care coordination, and supports the best possible outcomes for your child.
For patients whose insurance requires a designated primary care provider (PCP), our practice must be listed as the child's PCP in order to provide ongoing primary care services.
Bad Behavior
Gwinnett Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has a ZERO tolerance policy including but not limited to threats of or actions of aggressive behavior, unreasonable expectations, bullying, profanity, lying, stealing, and physical and/or verbal abuse. This includes to our staff, their families, other patients, and their families. Any display of this behavior will be subject to being terminated as a patient from this office and the involvement of law enforcement where necessary.
Many of your questions can be answered by reading our answers to frequent questions about our practice or policies.
GPAM's Specific Policies
We ask that all our patients abide by all of our office policies. Chronically ignoring or failing to follow our office polices may result in our request that you find another pediatric group for your child’s healthcare.