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TO OUR DEAR PATIENTS AND FAMILIES DURING THIS CORONAVIRUS HEALTH CRISIS, 

All of us at Dolphin Pediatrics hope everyone is safe. Children and young adults have an important role in stopping the spread of #COVID19, keeping those who are most vulnerable from getting sick. We all are responsible for protecting those at higher risk!
We are very concerned  about the possibility of future health problems for those who contract CoVid-19,  so we encourage those who can,  to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
Also, even though we know now that children seem to have milder forms of the disease, If our babies and small children stop getting their regular schedule vaccines they can be at risk of contracting diseases that do target them and put them at very high risk of mortality and permanent illness (meningitis, polio, tetanus, whooping cough, diphtheria,etc.), so in keeping with this we encourage all our patients less than 2 years of age and specially our infants to come for their healthy visits and receive their vaccinations as per American Academy of Pediatric guidelines.
IS IT SAFE TO COME TO OUR OFFICE?: Yes!, we are making visits as safe as possible by the following:
  1. We closed our waiting rooms and are making parents wait in their cars until we have a thoroughly clean room available,  and both for their protection and ours, our nurses, students and doctors wear protective gear. We ask that only one healthy parent accompanies the patient for any given visit with the exception of the newborn to 2 months visits and when more than one child in a family is being seen.
  2. We are aware that some pediatricians’ offices have stopped seeing sick patients, we are committed to our patients and will continue to see sick patients. IF NEED BE, WE TEST FOR COVID-19 VIA PCR WITH RESULTS COMING BACK USUALLY IN 24 HRS.
  3. To decrease the risk to grandparents, we ask that those who have not been fully vaccinated do not come to our office accompanying their grandchildren.
  4. We do not accept walk-ins,  because they need to be screened so please call our office ahead and we will get you an appointment.

Mission Statement

At Dolphin Pediatrics we believe in creating a partnership with parents to help them raise healthy children physically and emotionally, promote prevention and a healthy lifestyle based on scientific evidence. The physicians and staff strive to provide professional, compassionate, quality, up to date care while maintaining high ethical standards in a respectful and friendly environment. We enjoy caring for children from birth to young adults, we value the relationship with our families and aim to be accessible to them. We appreciate the trust that parents and grandparents place in us, and feel privileged to be part of their lives. Dolphin Pediatrics is committed to helping make a difference in the overall health and well-being of children and thus impact the global diverse community we live in.

Vaccine Policy at Dolphin Pediatrics

Dr. Suarez-Troccoli firmly believes

  • That our vaccines are a safe and effective way of preventing serious illnesses and save many lives. We have vaccinated all the children in our families
  • That all children and young adults should receive all of the recommended vaccines according to the schedule published by the American Academy of Pediatrics
  • That vaccines do not cause autism
  • That vaccinating children may be the single most important health promoting intervention we perform as health care providers and that parents can perform as caregivers
  • The recommended vaccines and the vaccine schedule are the result of years of scientific study and data collection from millions of children by thousands of our brightest scientists

Vaccine Policy and Comments (taken in part from Greenvale Pediatrics)

We live in a multicultural world where travel is accessible to all and there are people from all over the world around you, so we are not isolated. We recognize that there have always been, and always will be, questions about vaccinations but these mainly come from the fact that because vaccines have been so successful at eradicating disease, many parents don’t have the experience of having a relative or loved one that has had polio,diphtheria, bacterial meningitis, whooping cough, tetanus, or even chicken pox and thus do not believe they exist. This can lead to many people thinking they do not need to vaccinate their kids. When parents choose not to vaccinate their child they are taking advantage of millions of others who do vaccinate their children. The immunity provided by the large population of vaccinated children decreases the likelihood that the un-vaccinated child will contract these diseases. This sort of “herd immunity” only works as long as the majority of children are vaccinated. If immunization rates decrease there is greater chance for our children to become ill from vaccine preventable diseases.

We want to make our parents aware of these facts not to scare or coerce, but to emphasize the importance of vaccinating all of our children. We recognize that the decision may be a very emotional one for some parents. We will do everything we can to convince the parents, who trust us with their child’s health, that vaccinating according to the routine schedule is the right thing to do. We cannot provide everyone with a different vaccination schedule as there is no evidence that alternate vaccination schedules offer any advantage over the traditional AAP approved schedule and because our office, which is small in order to provide a closer relationship with your family, becomes chaotic with everyone getting vaccines at different times. So, without exception, our office does not offer alternative vaccination schedules.