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Unifour Pediatrics
... and Welcome to our web site! ** COVID-19 Vaccine & Your Extended Family ** PRINT ** COVID-19 Vaccine & Your Extended Family ** VIEW ![]() Click on a head to go to specific clinician (above or in right margin)/em> 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. .
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() - CALL (828) 328-1118 (Susan Huffman CMPE, Practice Administrator) or (FAX) 328-1119. ![]() ![]() - limited need for use of crowded hospital ER & urgent care facilities. - extensive after-hours coverage via telephone & via WE/holiday urgent care (sick children can usually be seen in the office 364 days/yr when weather and staffing permits). ![]() - Our Board Certified Pediatricians: - David M. Millsaps, MD FAAP (lead pediatrician of Unifour Pediatrics), - Brooke Lawrence Hata, MD FAAP (currently on extended leave), - Richard Rheinbolt, MD FAAP, - Barbara Colosimo, MD FAAP, and - William E. Elliott, MD FAAP. - Our Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioners: - Sommer C. Clark, MSN CPNP, Karen T. Leasure, MSN CPNP, - Lauren J. McFarland, MSN CPNP, Evina L. Nonato MSN CPNP, - Nancy A. Witcher, MSN CPNP. and Ashley Cooper MSN CPNP. ![]() well children ONLY under 4 years age (and for immunocompromised children) with a separate entrance, waiting rooms, exam rooms and staff. Those 4 years and above are seen in the upper level, with separate waiting and exam rooms for sick and well. ![]() ![]() - for urgent problems call at 8AM WEs/holidays or before 4:00PM WDs. ![]() - Providing access to us online, with all sorts of helpful information. can also send you diagnosis specific patient education PDFs and videos. Questionnaires are also available about our pediatric practice. From a computer, you can print out documents for family members. ![]() - Providing access to us online, with all sorts of helpful information. We can also send you diagnosis-specific patient education PDFs and videos. Download our Healow and Healow for Kids apps. ![]() - by Dr. David Millsaps, Dr. Richard Rheinbolt, Dr. Barbara Colosimo, and Dr. William Elliott, as well as Sommer Clark CPNP, Karen Leasure CPNP, Lauren McFarland CPNP, Nancy Witcher CPNP, Evina Nonato CPNP, and Ashley Cooper CPNP. Pediatric Help Line provides coverage (usually after 9PM). ![]() - For full-term nursery: Dr. Millsaps, Dr. Rheinbolt, and Dr. Colosimo, and Dr. Elliott, - For NICU and pediatric unit hospital admissions: we utilizing pediatric hospitalists/neonatologists. - Catawba has well-run and well-staffed pediatric unit, full well-run nursery and NICU ... with numerous awards for high quality of patient care, caring nurses who are well trained and knowledgeable, and a hospital and staff that scores well on patient satisfaction surveys, etc. ![]() - Most tests results are available before you leave the office. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ages through two excellent programs: (1) Reach Out and Read program, where age-appropriate books are provided to children 6 months through 5 years at each well checkup (we are the ONLY pediatric office in the county participating in this program, and (2) Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program, where age-appropriate books are mailed monthly to each of our patient's homes (birth through 5 years). If started at birth, this currently means 73 high-quality books free for your child. We truly believe in the importance of early childhood literacy! ![]() programs to get kids out and active on trails and parks. Access these helpful programs that will show you great parks to go to in the area, showing, for instance, details about 55+ parking in this county alone. See our Unifour Pediatrics Outdoors Activities and Fun page, or click: ParkRxAmerica.org/hickory (for example, Baker Mountain Park, River Bend Park, Lyle Creek Greenway, Glenn Hilton Park, South Mountains State Park, and many many others. Or see ParkRxAmerica.org/boone or those in the nearly mountains. Or see KidsInParks.com (for more distant parks). ![]() ![]() 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! ![]() ![]() Financial Success in Life ... for our child: With the economic problems of our country, we realize that many existing government entitlement programs and "safety nets" will likely become a thing of the past. We are partnering with other organizations to help maximize the future success of our children. As future young adults who are heading off into life, we want to promote self- empowerment in the following ways: ► stress the goals of educational success and the joy of learning, ► enthusiastic quest for knowledge and personal improvement, ► promote future financial success, independence, and self-reliance, ► encourage healthy role models and standards of behavior (see below), ► develop strong principles, character, honesty, ethics, and morals, ► encourage realistic goals in life, perseverance, and strong work ethic, ► grow up to fully understand that "we must all live within our means", ► learn early that budgeting is important - excess spending, borrowing, or lack of forethought have both financial and personal consequences (whether in an individual, family, business, city, or government), ► learn early that "drifting through life" with few goals or direction usually results in poverty and fewer career options, ► learn early that early pregnancy, drugs, and alcohol complicate matters, usually resulting in poverty and fewer career options, ► As you consider further children, be sure that you can responsibly provide for them financially, and via your of time, love, and nurturing, ► become "contributing members of society", and not just "takers", ► nurture the desire to care for others, and for community participation, ► foster genuine desire for volunteerism, charity, and helping others, ► help develop healthy self-esteem, faith, excitement, and joy for life, ► avoid envy, a defeatist attitude, or a "victim" mentality, ► avoid patterns of blaming others, rather than accepting personal responsibility incorrect decisions made in life, ► develop true respect for other individuals of all races/backgrounds, ► foster a love of our community and of our country, ► Parents are the main source of modeling behavior (see below), ► Quality parenting is IMPORTANT! Children Learn What They Live, by Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D. ► If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn. ► If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. ► If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. ► If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves. ► If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy. ► If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy. ► If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty. ► If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence. ► If children live with tolerance, they learn patience. ► If children live with praise, they learn appreciation. ► If children live with acceptance, they learn to love. ► If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves. ► If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal. ► If children live with sharing, they learn generosity. ► If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness. ► If children live with fairness, they learn justice. ► If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect. ► If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them. ► If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live. Copyright © 1972 by Dorothy Law Nolte
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![]() ![]() Richard Rheinbolt MD FAAP ![]() Barbara Colosimo MD FAAP ![]() William Elliott MD FAAP Board Certif. Pediatricians: ![]() Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics ![]() and our Pediatric Nurse Practitioners ![]() ![]() Sommer C. Clark, CPNP ![]() Karen Leasure, CPNP ![]() Lauren McFarland, CPNP ![]() Evina Nonato, CPNP ![]() Nancy Witcher, CPNP ![]() Ashley Cooper CPNP Mission: Unifour Pediatrics is a physician-owned primary care pediatric practice established to provide quality comprehensive healthcare services to infants, children, adolescents & college-age youth. |