ANNOUNCEMENTS

Legacy Pediatrics welcomes Kate Shand,
PA-C, to the practice! 

We will be continuing our Saturday walk-in hours from 9am - 10am for the rest of the month of May, 2013.  Then we will be closed on Saturdays for the summer and reopen in the fall.  As always, we are open Monday-Friday from 8am - 9am for walk ins throughout the entire year.

Our ear immunity study has completed 5 years now and we thought it would be a good idea to share with you what we have found. 

Over 500 children are enrolled in the study and some children have completely finished. We have done over 6000 nose washes and nose cultures and throat cultures and blood samples. 300 children developed an ear infection where an ear tap was needed. We have had no complications.

We have found that by providing individualized care to the children in the study we have reduced the frequency of ear infections and the need for ear tubes significantly.

We found that 5.9% of children in the study individualized care group compared to 14.4% in children cared for at Legacy but not in the study, and 27.3% in community experienced frequent ear infections. 2.4% in the study individualized care group compared to 6.3% in children cared for at Legacy but not in the study, and 14.8% in community received ear tube surgery. US cost savings if the study individualized care approach were generally applied were calculated to be about $3 billion annually. 

We concluded: The study individualized care ear tap and treatment strategy significantly reduces the occurrence of repeated ear infections, the need for ear tube surgery and could be cost-effective.

We hope you find this information useful and will consider encouraging other parents to join our important study.

Legacy Pediatrics is committed to providing the children we care for the best innovative, cutting edge medicine available. Our clinicians are nationally renowned for their work in advancing childhood care and treatment. We offer a full range of services from evaluation and management of newborns, healthy and sick children to the assessment and monitoring of childhood development. We're centrally located, adjacent to a laboratory and pharmacy in the same complex with easy parking. We're at 1815 S. Clinton Avenue in Brighton, just across the street from McQuaid High School.