Hartman Pediatrics

01/24/2026

Friendly reminder that our office utilizes pre check-in through the patient portal for your visits. this cold and flu season has been quite significant resulting in increase in sick visits to the office. We are unfortunately experiencing lines at the check in desk at times due to the increase in visits. Using pre check-in to update your information and add insurance cards before the visit speeds up the in person check in, getting your child to a room faster and in turn decreasing your time spent waiting. Please add your insurance cards in pre check-in by clicking on edit by the insurance name. You can expire old insurance and add new insurance as well. Also remember your insurance card is your form of payment for your healthcare and we need a copy of all cards every visit. The easiest way to do this is in the pre check-in. Please do not add a separate portal message with your insurance cards unless you forgot to add them in pre check-in. This makes it more difficult to know when you get here if we have your card or not. If you did not provide a card in pre check-in the front desk will ask you for the copy in person. This is her job. Please be kind. It is necessary to have a copy of the card every time you come, just like you have to present your debit or credit card every time you go to the grocery store or your library card every time you check out books even if you were just there. Thank you!

01/21/2026

We all want to be able to help our kiddos feel better when they are sick and over the counter cough/cold medicines can seem like the right choice. Unfortunately, some of these products can actually harm our young children. It’s best to stick with fluids, saline spray, humidifiers and honey for those over 1.

01/13/2026

Fever for 3-4 days can be normal for children fighting common viral infections. For pediatricians, once we hear the fever has been present for more than 5 days, our thought process changes. This is why we always ask very specific questions at your visits…details matter.

01/10/2026

At Hartman Pediatrics, we believe in science. We follow evidence based guidelines to provide the best care to your children. With recent political influence resulting in non-evidence based changes to the CDC vaccine recommendations, we want you to know we will be following the American Academy of Pediatrics to guide our future recommendations. As such, we will continue to recommend all children are fully vaccinated on time. We are committed to keeping our patients healthy and vaccines are our most powerful tool to do this.

01/01/2026

Happy New Year! We hope that 2026 brings health to all of our patients!

As a reminder, the office is closed New Year’s Day.

12/22/2025

😆🤦‍♀️ what’s the weirdest / funniest excuse your child has given for a bedtime curtain call?

Hang in there, team!

Thanks

12/21/2025

Loving this today! “Rebranding” is definitely the best parenting back at any age. Try it!

12/16/2025

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We had a surprise elf stop by to decorate this weekend and the office looks great!🎄
As we approach the holidays next week, I wanted to post our holiday hours. Several of our staff members will be taking some time off to spend with family during the next 2 weeks, so while there are fewer total appointments, we are still open every day minus Christmas day and New Year’s day. Remember to check out our self scheduling for sick visits!

December 24th - open 8-12 for sick visits only
December 25th - closed
December 26th - normal hours 8-5
December 31st - normal hours 8-5
January 1st - closed
January 2nd normal hours 8-5

12/15/2025

Tips for the busy weeks ahead!

12/14/2025

ACIP has recommended vaccinating during pregnancy with inactivated influenza vaccine since 1997. Studies have shown that pregnant people are at increased risk for complications, hospitalization, and even death from influenza because of the increased physiologic strain of pregnancy on their heart, lungs, and immune system. Vaccination can occur in any trimester, including the first.

Infants younger than 6 months old are at high risk of influenza-related complications, but influenza vaccine is not recommended for them because the immune response to influenza vaccination is limited before 6 months of age. Vaccinating during pregnancy provides maternal antibodies to the fetus which helps protect infants against influenza during the first 6 months of life until they can get vaccinated at age 6 months. Vaccinating pregnant people protects them, their unborn babies, and their babies after birth.

You’ll find this answer, as well as other influenza vaccine Q&As, here: www.immunize.org/ask-experts/topic/influenza.

12/10/2025

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