Recommend your NWDC pediatrician who draws labs on-site and doesn't nickel and dime

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Anonymous wrote:We're currently with McKnight Pediatrics, which we chose because my OB recommended it before my first child was born and we live nearby. While we've always received excellent care for our children and like the newer practitioners, there are a few things about the practice that have led me to consider a switch.

- No on-site lab (have to schlep to Children's next door or elsewhere - not ideal when you're carting around a jaundiced newborn who needs frequent bili checks)
- Office is one of maybe 2 pediatric practices in a building that mostly caters to adults
- $25-$35 charge for school forms (cost depends on how quickly they're needed)
- Parking is $5 (or $8 if you have to piggyback to Children's for labs) and a total nightmare
- Office environment lacks warmth and is dated (not a huge deal, but throwing it in with my other gripes)

Thanks for your recommendations!

Avoid Foxhall Pediatrics. Used to be wonderful but now an awful and expensive experience. Personnel changes.

I couldn't disagree more! Foxhall Pediatrics is if anything more wonderful than ever. Dr. Sweeney and Dr. Daniel are both wonderful doctors, in all regards. They have an amazing manner with kids, are never hurried, have a great sense of humor, are thorough and cautious yet also pragmatic... And they're just fabulous people, from what I can tell. (One of them once opened the office up for us after hours so that we wouldn't have to go the ER in a situation in which it would have been really unpleasant.) The nurses are lovely too, as are the other members of the office staff. They are incredibly responsive, always get questions answered quickly, get us in when we need to be seen, take care of school forms with amazing efficiency, etc.

I don't know that they check all the OP's boxes (for example they don't draw blood on younger children, but you can def do that without going to Children's - one option being the Safeway on Bradley Boulevard), and for that matter I have no idea whether they're even accepting new patients--but if they are, I highly recommend them to people who are nearby and are looking for an old-fashioned feeling, personal, unhurried practice.

+ 1000 on how wonderful Foxhall Pediatrics is. I love the doctors and staff. They all know my kids well and they’ve bend over backwards to see my kids when they’re sick.

We’ve had to go to Children’s for blood draws and you do have to pay for parking (although we sometimes walk for well kid visits) so I wasn’t going to recommend for OP, but I’ll join PP in defending them!

These Foxhall defenders must work there. I can't tell you how many patients are searching for new peds. Good try with the over the top posts but we're sitting here laughing.

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Friendship Pediatrics. The interior is dated but otherwise a great practice

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Anonymous wrote:Spring Valley Pediatrics checks all your boxes, but they don't take insurance.

But they will submit the insurance forms for you - which for me is the big hassle. So I pay out of pocket for a visit, they submit forms and then I get a reimbursement from my insurance all without effort on my end. Most places that don't take insurance won't submit forms for you so this feels like a minor issue.

They definitely check all of the other boxes - lab onsite, no charge for school forms, open (I think - maybe they are closed 2 days total?) 365 days/ year, easy-ish 2 hour street parking, regular phone office hours so you can CALL your doctor vs. always lugging the kid in, super competent staff. I'm a fan.