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Unifour Pediatrics is a physician-owned primary care practice established to provide quality, comprehensive healthcare services to infants, children, adolescents and college-age youth ... your pediatric medical home.
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Coronavirus (COVID19) OFFICE UPDATE   Protected Environment in office       Televisits: Learn about these   Videos and Info about Coronavirus     Instructions,  Span instruc   Protecting your family at home          Instruction Video,  Another   WE ARE STILL OPEN for IN-OFFICE Sick, Well, Injured or Behavioral visits in a very protected OFFICE environment, with outside screening/check-in, no more waiting rooms - stay in your car until being called directly back to completely separate "well exam room" OR "sick exam room" areas. These AERIAL VIDEOS will explain all. PROTECTED OFFICE: There are separate well and sick entrances with separate staff to see our patients in each of these areas. Before office entry, we are taking temperatures and asking screening questions about patients (and those that accompany them) so that (1) no sick persons enter the "well" areas, and (2) no known/suspected coronavirus patients or family members enter either section. Clinical questions and details are often asked over the phone while the family stays in the car. WELL VISITS: We are still seeing Well Checks in completely separate areas: Newborn to 5 years: lower-level well child section,  (aerial video), 5 through 21 years: upper-level "well-child" section,  (aerial video) SICK VISITS OPTIONS: (1) Non-infectious sick, injured, and most behavioral patients are seen within the main upper office upstairs. (2) ALL Sick patients with possible infectious symptoms are seen upstairs in one of the two 20x30' fully-equipped walled-canopies clinics outside, located in the upper parking lot. Those with cough, fever, achiness, etc. are seen outside in this safe protected environment for our staff and for other patients. (3) Sick or exposed patients who are suspected of COVID-10 illness or have has close exposure are first seen by TeleHealth Visit, followed by a COVID-19 test sample obtained OUTSIDE under a small canopy in the far corner of the parking lot. (safely away from other patients and staff). TELEHEALTH VISITS: Yet another option are Unifour Pediatrics TeleVisits (like a secure real-time FaceTime bidirectional audio-video visit). CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT 828-328-1118. We are here for you! COVID-19 MASS VACCINATION CLINICS: Will occur in Summer? 2021. These will be administered on Saturday and Sunday afternoons in the walled canopies outside in the upper parking lot. These are ONLY for our Unifour Pediatric patients and not for others, and will NOT be available until Summer 2021 (estimated time when the government will authorize this with a EUA certification for the pediatric age group, and when we reach that point in the risk/age staged roll-out of the vaccines.

CONTACTING US AFTER HOURS: Key areas (pages) of this site will automatically change after the office closes, providing very specific information as to how to contact us at any time of the evening, night, weekend, or holiday.. Alternatively, you can always reach us using our main phone number!  Day or night, call our main number, (828) 328-1118,  to reach our staff, on-call provider, or triage service.

We are recognized and fully certified as a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) - Certification Level 3, the highest level currently available  through the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)
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We are also certified by Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) through the Blue Quality Physician Program (BQPP)), which focuses on Primary Care Management and rewards independent practices committed to providing high-quality outcomes, and low-cost, patient-centered care for BCBSNC members.

Unifour Pediatrics is the ONLY medical practice in Catawba County participating in both the Reach Out and Read and the Dolly Parton Imagination Library programs, delivering up to 73 high-quality books to each of our pediatric patients under 5. We believe in early-childhood literacy!


We also encourage children and their parents to get out of the house and visits parks and trail systems with their families, through these two programs. Get active! Its healthy and fun at the same time! 




The Kids in Parks program has established a network of trails designed to provide kids and families with fun outdoor activities. Through their TRACK Rx program, our providers are promoting this program and formally prescribing our patients to get active outdoors and reconnected to nature through this exciting program. For more information about the program, click this link



CALLING ALL PATIENTS!  Join our staff and patients in counting steps and get active!  We have divided into 2 teams and we are counting our steps daily and reporting them weekly.  We are accumulating the total (2000 steps = 1 mile) and moving our “person” across the map to race across the country!  Call our office and be placed on a team and start counting!  Send a message of your weekly steps through our patient portal and be a part of the fun! 

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