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No walk-ins or appointments available today. We will resume normal operations tomorrow.
Thank you for your understanding.

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Please read below important information about influenza and the flu vaccinations that will be available this year for you, your children, and your family.

Who should get the flu vaccine?

With a few exceptions, the influenza vaccine is recommended for everyone over 6 months of age. At the bottom of this email are links to vaccine information sheets from the Center for Disease Control with further information about why it is recommended and the few individuals who should avoid receiving the vaccine.

How to get yourselves and your children immunized?

This Flu season, Kindercare Pediatrics will be offering flu vaccine clinics for all children and their first-degree relatives. Please note that the vaccine clinics will not be run as walk-in clinics. Appointments must be scheduled in advance. Please fill in this flu shot clinic form to make an appointment.

What types of vaccines are available?

There are two types of flu vaccines available in Canada: the conventional vaccine (needle-injected) and the nasal vaccine (sprayed in the nostrils). The safety profile and effectiveness of both vaccines seem to be equivalent for children and adults. As in the past, the Ontario Government will cover the cost of immunizing your child with either vaccine. It is your and/or your child’s choice which one to give.

Further Information

For further information about the two types of available flu vaccines check out these CDC Vaccine Information Handouts for the conventional vaccine and for the nasal vaccine. Here are a few other reliable information sources about the influenza vaccine:

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Kindercare Pediatrics is actively looking for a General Pediatrician to join our team.  We are a full-service outpatient pediatric health centre located in the heart of midtown Toronto. We offer a variety of stand-alone and multi-disciplinary programs including general pediatrics, subspecialty pediatrics, pediatric after hours urgent care, child/family psychology, lactation support, and pediatric allied health care.
Physicians at Kindercare Pediatrics receive full-service support including:

• Electronic medical records – we make robust use of the many features offered by Telus Practice Solutions.
• Nursing support for vitals, vaccines, urine caths, ECG, patient education, etc.
• Onsite access to an array of pediatric medical subspecialists. These include: dermatology, allergy/immunology, respirology, adolescent medicine, lactation medicine, endocrinology, rheumatology, neurology, medical nutrition, patient advocacy.
• Onsite allied health services: physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, dietician services, lactation consultant support, and child/family psychology.
• Onsite phlebotomy (coming this summer)
• Onsite Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) services – enables physicians to assess and treat housebound or remotely located patients by video conference. These services are insured by OHIP and include billing premiums. Physicians can do OTN assessments from home or in the office.  Patients can receive OTN services from their own homes or at a registered OTN site.
• 7 day-per-week onsite after-hours pediatric urgent care clinic – staffed exclusively by pediatricians.
• Radiology services in the building.
• Pharmacy in the building.

For more details, check out www.kindercarepediatrics.ca

If you are interested in this job and would like to consider joining the team, please feel free to contact us

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During well baby visits at Kindercare Pediatrics, you (the parent/caregiver) can expect to meet your baby’s doctor, discuss any concerns that may be on your mind, and review important learning points regarding your baby’s safety, health, nutrition, development, and other aspects of parenting. Your child’s doctor will also conduct a physical examination and address any points of concern arising from the visit. Prior to concluding the encounter, you and your doctor will determine if any vaccines are due for your child and one of our nurses will administer the recommended vaccines.

The routine baby care schedule and delivery of OHIP-insured vaccines are as follows:

• Newborn period (usually 2-3 days after delivery) – No routine vaccines offered
• Weight check (usually 1-3 days after the newborn visit) – No routine vaccines offered
• 1 month of age – No routine vaccines offered
• 2 months of age – DPTPH, pneumococcus, and rotavirus vaccines offered
• 4 months of age – DPTPH, pneumococcus, and rotavirus vaccines offered
• 6 months of age – DPTPH vaccine offered
• 9 months of age – No routine vaccines offered
• 12 months of age – MMT, Meningitis C, Pneumococcus vaccines offered
• 15 months of age – Varicella vaccine offered
• 18 months of age – DPTPH vaccine offered
• 24 months of age – No routine vaccines offered
• We recommend annual visits to the pediatrician after 2 years of age

Keep in mind that the above is not a comprehensive schedule; it only represents vaccines covered by OHIP, Ontario’s Health Insurance Plan.  In other words, Ontario parents are not charged any money for their children to receive these vaccines.

There are additional vaccines that are recommended by Health Canada but that are not insured by OHIP.  Parents are expected to cover the cost for non-OHIP-insured vaccines out-of-pocket although sometimes they are covered by extended health insurance policies.  These recommended but uncovered vaccines include: Meningitis ACYW vaccine (if given before grade 7), Meningitis B vaccine, Hepatitis A vaccine, Hepatitis B vaccine (if given before grade 7), HPV vaccine (if given before grade 7).

In an ideal world, children would receive all recommended infant/childhood vaccines.  To accommodate this, the physicians at Kindercare Pediatrics have developed a more comprehensive schedule that incorporates both insured and uninsured vaccines into routine primary care.  Please feel free to review this schedule by clicking here.

If you are concerned that your child(ren)’s vaccinations may not be up to date, please reach out to your primary care provider who will be able to help.

If your child is a patient at Kindercare Pediatrics, please contact us and we will do our best to help.

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Who should get the flu vaccine?

With a few exceptions, the influenza vaccine is recommended for everyone over 6 months of age. At the bottom of this email are links to vaccine information sheets from the Center for Disease Control with further information about why it is recommended and the few individuals who should avoid receiving the vaccine.

How to get yourselves and your children immunized?

This Flu season, Kindercare Pediatrics will be offering flu vaccine clinics for all children and their first-degree relatives. Please note that the vaccine clinics will not be run as walk-in clinics. Appointments must be scheduled in advance. Please fill in this flu shot clinic form to make an appointment.

What types of vaccines are available?

There are two types of flu vaccines available in Canada: the conventional vaccine (needle-injected) and the nasal vaccine (sprayed in the nostrils). The safety profile and effectiveness of both vaccines seem to be equivalent for children and adults. As in the past, the Ontario Government will cover the cost of immunizing your child with either vaccine. It is your and/or your child’s choice which one to give.

Further Information

For further information about the two types of available flu vaccines check out these CDC Vaccine Information Handouts for the conventional vaccine and for the nasal vaccine. Here are a few other reliable information sources about the influenza vaccine:

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Our first offering is a 6-week infant and toddler development workshop. This workshop will help parents to learn and understand the basics of infant and toddler development. Hosted at Smartiepants and led by Kindercare’s experts in nutrition, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and child/family psychology, each weekly workshop will include both formal teaching and informal question & answer sessions.

Workshop Dates, Topics and Experts:

Day 1 : Speech and Language Development – Sari Feldstein, Speech and Language Pathologist

Day 2: Feeding and Nutrition – Dr. Daniel Flanders, Pediatrician with specialized interest in nutrition

Day 3: Gross Motor Skills and Coordination – Hillary Abramsky, Physiotherpaist

Day 4: Fine Motor Skills and Activities of Daily Living – Megan Silverhart and Francine Persico, Occupational Therapists

Day 5: Healthy Attachment and Mental Health – Dr. Mirisse Foroughe, Family and Child Psychologist

Day 6: Summary and Integration – All health practitioners

Cost:

Full Program: $200

Each Individual Session: $50

Click Here for a summary of the Development Workshop Objectives and Discussion Topics

Click Here to Register

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Happy Canada Day to my new home. I’ve truly fallen in love with Canada. And it is so easy to do so. Compared with others it is friendly and open to outsiders and is mostly a global force for good.

But Canada also has issues. The one most relevant today is the history of terrible treatment of indigenous communities. I had the privilege to spend a month in Iqaluit a few years ago and I learned a lot about topics that I should have learned about sooner.

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Dr. Savlov will be offering primary care and consulting pediatric services effective July, 2017.  Please read below for more information about Dr. Savlov:

Dr. Deena Savlov received her medical degree at the University of Western Ontario where she was awarded a scholarship for being the most proficient graduate. She completed her pediatric residency at SickKids Hospital in Toronto after which she worked as a general pediatrician at North York General Hospital for 2 years and at SickKids Hospital for 5 years. She is also a Lecturer at the University of Toronto.

Deena’s academic interests are in quality improvement. She completed a certificate course in quality improvement & patient safety through the University of Toronto and has subsequently worked on a number of initiatives to improve patient safety and healthcare delivery.  Her work in this field has been presented at local, national and international conferences. She hopes to extend this expertise to improve care delivery to children in the community.

Deena also has clinical expertise in the care of children with medical complexity. During her years at SickKids Hospital, she provided longitudinal care to children with complex medical needs as well as otherwise healthy children.

In addition to her professional career, Deena is the proud and loving mother of 3 beautiful children. She is very excited to join the Kindercare team.

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