Learn how Rochester Regional Health is helping parents, kids, and expectant mothers access services while quarantined during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Whether it's a stuffy nose, cut on their knee, or anything in between, part of a child's development is picking up bumps and bruises along the way.
Rochester Regional Health is utilizing telemedicine services to continue to see patients during the COVID-19 outbreak to ensure your child receives the care they need.
Telemedicine is available through the MyCare app, as well as through Facetime, Skype, Doximity and Doxy.me. Telemedicine gives patients and providers many benefits:
MyCare is a HIPPA-compliant app that offers personalized and secure online access to portions of your medical records at all of our hospitals and physician offices. MyCare allows patients to:
To book a telemedicine appointment, please call your pediatrician’s office.
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Well visits and vaccinations are an essential part of assessing a child’s growth and development and ensuring health. Rochester Regional Health is continuing to see patients for well visits and vaccinations in office.
In an effort to keep our young patients safe at all times, Rochester Regional Health is grouping well and sick patients by time of day, as well as utilizing alternate entrances and car side visits when appropriate.
Patients are being roomed immediately upon arrival, and we are following all CDC guidelines for cleaning, disinfecting, and masking at all locations for well visits, sick visits, and immunizations.
While parents are trying to catch up to new guidelines and terms like shelter in place, stay at home, quarantine, and self-isolation, some kids are struggling to understand their unique situation.
Adam Weis, MD, Pediatrician at Rochester Regional Health, says it’s important to talk to your children about COVID-19 and explain what some of these terms mean.
Dr. Weis says children who suffer from anxiety and need behavioral health support often haven’t developed the coping skills necessary to deal with stressful situations or big changes in their lives.
To help parents and guardians of children who need behavioral health support, Rochester Regional Health’s Behavioral Health Clinics are accepting new patients and doing intakes via telephone, video, and in-person with strict disinfecting, masking, and social-distancing policies.
We continue to operate all levels of care, including:
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Routine prenatal and postpartum check-ups can now be held over the phone or by video conference. When in-person visits are required, we will do our best to consolidate multiple tests into one appointment. You’ll still be able to bring one support person with you for your ultrasound.
We are now offering online courses in place of in-person classes, so you can still get all the information you need prior to delivery. These classes can be completed in the comfort of your own home and on your own schedule.
View and register for our available online classes
Hospitals are still the safest place to check on your little one with an ultrasound and deliver your baby! Our team is taking every precaution to keep you and your baby safe from COVID-19 and to ensure mom and baby are well cared for and comfortable. Ultrasounds are still being offered with one non-symptomatic support person.
We invite all new and expectant mothers to join our virtual Baby Café where we provide breastfeeding support, education, and guidance from lactation professionals! This free service is available to any pregnant woman or breastfeeding mother in the community at any stage in their breastfeeding journey.
View the Baby Café Schedule
When you arrive, you and your support person will be screened for COVID-19, and you will both remain in your room during your stay.
We are currently allowing one support person to accompany mothers in labor and delivery. If your support person is feeling ill or has been exposed to a COVID-positive person in the community, he or she will not be allowed to enter the hospital. Your support person will also have his or her temperature taken twice each day and be required to answer COVID screening questions during your hospital stay. We encourage you to have someone else in mind who can fill in if your primary support person becomes ill before your delivery. Video chat may also be available for those who wish to be there virtually.
All of the team members caring for you and your baby during your delivery and recovery will be wearing masks and face shields to ensure everyone’s safety.
If possible, you will be discharged early from the hospital. For vaginal births, you could leave as early as day 1. Those who give birth by cesarean could leave on day 2.
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