Welcome to Conejo Children's Medical Group

The staff of Conejo Children's Medical Group welcomes you to our practice. Our medical staff includes five pediatricians who provide personalized health care to infants, children and young adults with experience in all aspects of pediatric care. Our staff is dedicated to providing care with the old-fashioned medical ethic, "putting the needs of the patient first". Each member of our staff is proud to extend personalized care to you and your family as we look forward to following your children through to young adulthood!

Announcements

COVID-19 Information

Please visit vcemergency.org for the latest information regarding local activity and testing sites

Here are our current precautions:

-If you think your child has symptoms or has been exposed to a known case of Coronavirus/COVID 19, please contact us by phone for further instructions or notify the staff of your concern when scheduling an appointment.

-Patients with mild respiratory symptoms who do not fall into high risk groups should not be routinely tested for Covid-19. They should be cared for at home as you normally would for a mild illness. In addition, ill persons should isolate at home until there is no fever without the use of fever reducing medications and there has been improvement in respiratory symptoms (cough, shortness of breath) for 3 days, AND it has been at least 7 days since the symptoms first appeared.

-Broadscale testing for novel coronavirus is not currently recommended our local community. We are able to swab for COVID19 in our office, but would only recommend patient with significant symptoms like high fever, cough, rash, severe abdominal pain. Results may take up to one week.

-Antibody testing for exposure or previous infection is available from commercial labs via a blood draw. There currently is no recommendation about who should be tested. The tests have not been officially FDA approved and the results are not reliable for giving advice about whether or not a person is immune.

-Local Emergency Rooms and Urgent Cares are also using specific criteria to guide testing. We do not recommend going there unless your child is having difficulty breathing or is very ill.

-To limit patient to patient interactions within the office, we are scheduling well child checks primarily in the morning, and seeing ill patients in the afternoon in another suite in our building. Upon arrival for a well visit, both the patient and parent/guardian will be temperature screened prior to entering the office. Should a temperature of 100.4 or higher be detected, the office visit will take place in the separate suite or may be rescheduled.

-Please call to notify us when you arrive for you appointment, but please wait in the car. We will call you when a room is available or direct you a temporary outdoor exam room, if indicated. Please wear a mask or facecovering when you enter the office.

-Please limit visitors to our office, especially grandparents who are high risk. We request 1 adult and 1 child, if feasible.

-We are also offering virtual visits via the above healow app.

Thank you for your understanding,

Conejo Children's Medical Group

Telemedicine Visits now Available!

Conejo Children’s Medical Group is excited to announce that we are now offering TeleVisits, a more convenient appointment option, which allows patients to have a visit with their medical provider from the comfort of their home or office. To schedule a TeleVisit with our office, call our office at (805) 499-5525. (Please note that in the event of an emergency you should not use TeleVisits, but call 911 to seek immediate medical help.) You can book a TeleVisits appointment for most visits. Please note this is a billable service. Due to the unique circumstances created by COVID 19, your health insurance should cover the cost of the visit, but you may be still responsible for copay costs. Ensure you are enabled for our Patient Portal and know your username and password when your appointment is booked.

We still recommend in person appointments for annual check ups, especially for young children and those visits where vaccines are due.

Please feel free to call our office if you have any questions or concerns.

Conejo Children’s Medical Group

Dr. Pachorek, Dr. Rubin, Dr. Vallance, Dr. Melman and Dr. Seidenberg

Healow App Televisit Guide

Step by step instructions to upload the app and start a Televisit from your mobile device

New...online statement payment option

Good news...you can now pay your balance online through our patient portal. Please call the office if you need to be set up on the portal or need your login credentials reset.

Need a form completed?

Did you know your child's Annual Physical Exam can be applied to sports and camp forms if it was within the last year?

If your child hasn't had a checkup in the last year, call us or request an appointment through our patient portal TODAY.

We are now an affiliated provider

with the

CHLA Health Network!

We are so excited to be a part of this premier network dedicated exclusively to pediatric care! Together in collaboration with the Network and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, we are committed to delivering innovative and seemless healthcare for you and your family.

www.CHLA.org/HealthNetwork

CCMG has the latest vaccines!

Meningitis B vaccine is available. We recommend it for ages 16 and above, but especially those entering or in college.

HPV 9 is the latest version of the HPV vaccine. We recommend it for ages 12 and above.

Make sure your child is protected; call us to schedule an appointment.

Ear Piercing

Due to current recommendations to defer elective office procedures as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, we have put our ear piercing services on hold. We hope to offer this service again in the near future.

Patient Portal

Have you visited our Patient Portal? It is a great way to manage your child's health even when the office is closed. Call us for your secure password to log in. You can send us messages, request refills and appointments, pay your statment balance and download medical records (including vaccinations) anytime of the day or night!