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Welcome to Our Practice
Carmel Pediatrics is a speciality of medicine concerned with the physical as well as emotional care of children from birth through high school. Our office strives to provide our patients the gentlest care in a cheerful and helpful atmosphere.
Carmel Pediatrics is an independent pediatric doctor practice with hospital privileges at:
- Carmel St. Vincent Hospital
- IU Health North Hospital (Clarian North)
- Indianapolis St. Vincent
Our Philosophy
Each of the pediatricians of Carmel Pediatrics emphasizes and maintains continuity of care in providing our patients and families with medical care. Our practice utilizes many unique service offerings to preserve this ideal.
- We offer morning telephone time to talk directly with our patients.
- Each doctor sees his or her patients for all well child care.
- Illnesses requiring an office visit are always seen by your own doctor unless unavoidable.
- We only share call within our own office.
The CDC published "Ten Great Public Health Achievements--United States, 2001-2010 in the May 20th issue of MMWR.
The past decade has seen substantial declines in cases, hospitalizations, deaths, and healthcare costs associated with vaccine-preventable diseases. New vaccines (i.e., rotavirus, quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate, herpes zoster, pneumococcal conjugate, and human papillomavirus vaccines, as well as tetanus, diptheria, and accellular pertussis vaccine for adults and adolescents) were introduced, bringing to 17 the number of diseases targeted by U.S. immunization policy. A recent economic analysis indicated that vaccination of each U.S. birth cohort with the current childhood immunization schedule prevents approximately 42,000 deaths and 20 million cases of disease, with net savings of nearly $14 billion in direct costs and $69 billion in total societal costs.
The impact of two vaccines has been particularly striking. Following the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, an estimated 211,000 serious pnemococcal infections and 13,000 deaths were prevented during 2000-2008. routine rotavirus vaccination, implemented in 2006, now prevents an estimated 40,000-60,000 rotavirus hospitalization each year. Advances also were made in the use of older vaccines, with reported cases of hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and varicella at record lows by the end of the decade. Age-specific mortality (i.e., deaths per million population) from varicella for persons age <20 years, declined by 97% from 0.65 in the prevaccine period (1990-1994) to 0.02 during 2005-2007. Average age-adjusted mortality (deaths per million population) from hepatitis A also declined significantly, from 0.38 in the prevaccine period (1991-1995) to 0.26 during 2000-2004.