Pediatric Physicians, PC

We’re very happy to welcome Maureen Nejedly, our new nurse practitioner! She’ll be joining our practice this week, seeing patients at our Windward office.

Maureen was born in New York and moved from Long Island in 1979 to Atlanta. She received her BSN from Brenau University and graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw University in 2001 with her MSN as a  Family Purse Practitioner. She has worked in Pediatrics at Kennestone Hospital, spent 12 years as a emergency room nurse at Children’s Health Care of Atlanta, Scottish Rite Hospital, and most recently in private practice in East Cobb. She lives in Woodstock with her husband.They have six children and 9 grandchildren. Maureen enjoys tennis, reading, travel, her family and is active in her church community as a grief counselor. She’ll be a great addition to our staff!

Have a safe and happy holiday! We’ll have special holiday hours this week. As always, our doctors are available after hours by phone for emergencies.

All office hours are by appointment only.

In addition, our Kids Time after hours clinics are open for walk-ins with no appointments necessary:

Here’s a post I wrote for Angie’s List about saving money on your prescription medicines– a few simple, quick tips for you and your family. Medicine doesn’t always have to cost a fortune!

Unfortunately, you do have to be careful with so-called “discount drug cards”– they’re usually just marketing tools designed to collect your personal information. One site that’s 100% legit is Needymeds.org, a genuine non-profit that does not collect personal info. They’ve got a discount drug card you can download for free, plus great links to just about every money-saving plan out there. Check it out!

We have two kinds of influenza vaccine available, the “mist” and the traditional injectable or “shot” vaccine. Both are safe and effective, and the supply we have for both of these is all preservative-free.

The mist is a cold-adapted, live vaccine for use from age 2-49 years. It shouldn’t be given to people with lung, heart, or immune disease.  The injectable vaccine can be given to anyone over 6 months of age.

People should not get a flu vaccine if they have a severe or life-threatening allergy to egg. Mild egg allergies are not a problem. Flu vaccines can be given safely to children or adults even while sick, as long as the illness isn’t severe.

The CDC recommends annual influenza vaccinations for everyone 6 months old and up. We know that communities with high vaccination rates have far less influenza disease. Protect yourself, your family, and your neighborhoods—get vaccinated!

 We’ve set up special evening clinics for influenza immunizations on Oct 29^th at Windward, and Oct 30^th at the Roswell office. These clinics are by appointment only—you must call ahead to get a slot—and will be for influenza vaccines only. Call now to make appointments for your children and yourselves, and get either the Flumist or traditional injected vaccine.

To help things go smoothly and quickly, remember that these clinics are only for these specific vaccines. There will be no doctor available. If you have medical questions or concerns, make a sick appointment during regular business hours.

If you can’t make it to one of these clinics, we have slots during the day for influenza vaccines as well. These are by appointment only.  We don’t like to keep people waiting, so all vaccine visits must be by appointment. We cannot accommodate walk-ins for vaccines.