Welcome to The Children's Clinic. Our two pediatric clinics in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area are staffed by 22 board certified pediatricians who have dedicated themselves to providing quality health care to children of all ages from infancy through adolescence. We are committed to the attainment of optimal physical, mental and social health for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults. To this end, we dedicate our efforts. Our History
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Please Welcome Dr. Pereira
We are excited to have Dr. Natasha Pereira join The Children’s Clinic. Dr. Pereira will be working every Monday, Tuesday 9:00 – 5:30, and Thursday & Friday 9:00 – 12 noon at the Peterkort clinic.
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Clinic flu shot update as of January 20, 2010
(Flu clinic site is updated daily. Changes made as appropriate)
Seasonal Flu Vaccine: We will not be receiving any more Seasonal Flu Vaccine. We ordered a larger than usual amount of seasonal flu vaccine this year, but demand has been very high.
H1N1 Vaccine: Please call now to schedule your appointment, you do not need to wait for us to call you. We continue to make calls from the H1N1 list. Our supply of H1N1 vaccine is better, so you may call to schedule the first dose or booster dose for your child. If you are on the H1N1 list or were told that you would be called to schedule a booster, please call now to schedule your appointment.
We also want to let you know that the physicians of The Children's Clinic do recommend H1N1 vaccine even if your child had flu-like illness unless special laboratory testing was positive for H1N1 influenza. Only About 40% of people who have recently had a flu-like illness actually had H1N1 influenza when testing was done.
Even though we are currently seeing less H1N1 illness in our community, experts caution that a second wave of this illness could occur. For this reason we do recommend vaccine for children who haven’t had it yet.
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Symptoms of seasonal flu and novel H1N1 flu include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people also may have vomiting and diarrhea.
For a prerecorded update on the H1N1 flu please call 503-535-6943 for Peterkort & 503-783-5294 for Tualatin.
Contact us if your child has any of the following symptoms.
- Fast breathing or trouble breathing
- Bluish or gray skin color
- Not drinking enough fluids
- Severe of persistent vomiting
- Not waking up or not interacting
- Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held
- Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
- Has other conditions (like heart or lung disease, diabetes, or asthma) and develops flu-like symptoms, including a fever and/or cough.
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