When it is about your child’s healthcare, pediatric well visits in Guntersville are the best preventative measures possible. The regular well visits serve to familiarize you with your child’s physical health to ensure that no unexpected development goes unchecked. They are also considered crucial so that all urgent or ongoing health concerns are addressed professionally as soon as possible. These visits can be timed to assess whether the young individuals are growing appropriately for their age and reaching all their developmental milestones or not. Our providers run physical exams with age-appropriate diagnostic screenings tools or thorough questionnaires and hearing and vision assessments according to requirements.
Thus, well visits improve the quality of life for children by ensuring that they are up to date in all recommended immunizations, are physically active, and in optimal internal condition for a healthy and happy childhood. What’s more? We are there with you at every step, even when it is about completing any health-related paperwork your children may need.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a perfectly timed schedule for well-child check-ups for the best time to catch developmental discrepancies. We have also compiled a list of things you can expect from these visits with your child. The chart below contains the information mentioned above. Please check out our parent resource tab for further details about immunization schedules for each visit.
| 1 MONTH | HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFRENCE MEASURED, PHYSICAL EXAM, NEWBORN SCREENING TEST (HEEL STICK) |
| 2 MONTHS | HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFRENCE MEASURED, PHYSIAL EXAM, IMMUNIZATIONS |
| 4 MONTHS | HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFRENCE MEASURED, PHYSIAL EXAM, IMMUNIZATIONS |
| 6 MONTHS | HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFRENCE MEASURED, PHYSIAL EXAM, IMMUNIZATIONS |
| 9 MONTHS | HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFRENCE MEASURED, PHYSICAL EXAM, ASQ DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING ASSESSMENT, CATCH-UP IMMUNIZATIONS IF NEEDED |
| 12 MONTHS | HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFRENCE MEASURED, PHYSIAL EXAM, IMMUNIZATIONS, LEAD AND HEMOGLOBIN LEVEL (FINGER STICK) |
| 15 MONTHS | HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFRENCE MEASURED, PHYSIAL EXAM, IMMUNIZATIONS |
| 18 MONTHS | HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFRENCE MEASURED, PHYSIAL EXAM, IMMUNIZATIONS, ASQ AND MCHAT DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING ASSESSMENTS |
| 2 YEARS | HEIGHT, WEIGHT AND HEAD CIRCUMFRENCE MEASURED, PHYSIAL EXAM, CATCH-UP IMMUNIZATIONS IF NEEDED, ASQ AND MCHAT DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING ASSESSMENTS, LEAD AND HEMOGLOBIN CHECK (FINGER STICK) |
| 3 YEARS | HEIGHT AND WEIGHT MEASURED, PHYSICAL EXAM, CATCH-UP IMMUNIZATIONS IF NEEDED |
| 4 YEARS | HEIGHT AND WEIGHT MEASURED, PHYSICAL EXAM, IMMUNIZATIONS, ASQ DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING ASSESSMENT |
| 5-10 YEARS | HEIGHT AND WEIGHT MEASURED, VISION AND HEARING SCREENING AS INDICATED, PHYSICAL EXAM, CATCH-UP IMMUNIZATIONS IF NEEDED |
| 11 YEARS | HEIGHT AND WEIGHT MEASURED, PHYSICAL EXAM, VISION AND HEARING SCREENING AS INDICATED, IMMUNIZATIONS |
| 12-15 YEARS | HEIGHT AND WEIGHT MEASURED, PHYSICAL EXAM, VISION AND HEARING SCREENING AS INDICATED, CATCH-UP IMMUNIZATIONS IF NEEDED |
| 16 YEARS | HEIGHT AND WEIGHT MEASURED, PHYSICAL EXAM, HEARING AND VISION SCREENING AS INDICATED, IMMUNIZATIONS |
| 17-18 YEARS | HEIGHT AND WEIGHT MEASURED, PHYSICAL EXAM, VISION AND HEARING SCREENING AS INDICATED, CATCH-UP IMMUNIZATIONS IF NEEDED |
| Monday | 8:30AM – 5:00PM |
| Tuesday | 8:30AM – 5:00PM |
| Wednesday | 8:30AM – 5:00PM |
| Thursday | 8:30AM – 5:00PM |
| Friday | 8:30AM – 5:00PM |
| Sat – Sun | Closed |
