Scenic Mountain Medical Group Pediatrics revamping sick visits

As Howard County continues to navigate through a pandemic, local providers are making adjustments to better serve their patients. Scenic Mountain Medical Group Pediatrics office is taking proactive steps and realigning their visits into sick and well-check locations.

“We take pride and great concern in providing care for you and your family. We appreciate families trusting us with the care of their children and want to ensure the community that we are being proactive when it comes to keeping the youth healthy and safe,” Mitzi Knight, Business Development for SMMC said.

According to Dr. Joseph Chavez, pediatric provider at Scenic Mountain Medical Group, there has been a recent surge of Covid-19, strep and RSV in pediatric patients. In

order to accommodate the sick visits and maintain a safe environment for well-visits, the pediatric office has been divided into two locations.

“We had to take a step back and reevaluate the regular flow of appointments as we strive to keep a safe environment for families to be seen,” Knight said. “We have come up with a system to separate our well children from our sick visits and are limiting exposure as much as we can.”

Knight continued, “The relocation of sick visits is temporary, but is a must right now as we are taking every effort possible to limit unnecessary exposure.”

At this time, all well visits and school/sports physicals will be conducted in Suite 205. Sick visits will take place downstairs. The new checkin system will be as follows: upon