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We, the pediatricians and pediatric nurse practitioners of Pediatric Health Associates, take seriously our mission to care for children ’s health. We deeply value the relationships that we form over time with our patients and their families. We are honored to serve as primary care pediatricians for our communities by offering families guidance about normal growth and development of childhood and adolescence, emphasizing preventive care and health maintenance, and supporting and caring for children and their families through periods of acute or chronic illness, disability, or injury.We are dedicated to supporting, promoting, and protecting the health of all children, from birth through young adulthood, in every way that we can.Caring for the health of children takes place at many levels, from studying the biochemical pathways underlying disease on a molecular and cellular level, to addressing social determinants of health and understanding children and their distinct health issues in the broader contexts of the family, the community, the society, and the world. It is from this perspective that we, along with pediatricians from around the country, and as members and Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics, arespeaking out with deep concern against the practice of separating children from their families at the U.S. border, formalized as policy in May of this year by the Department of Homeland Security.While exact numbers are unknown,at least 2400 children have been separ...
Source: Pediatric Health Associates - Category: Pediatrics Source Type: news