The physicians and nurse practitioners of Pediatric Health Care Associates (PHCA) have provided primary medical care to children and adolescents on the North Shore of Boston for over 40 years. We look forward to helping you keep your children healthy, safe, and happy. Our practice is able to offer the widest range of clinical services and appointment availability of any pediatric practice in the region without sacrificing the quality, family-centered care you and your child will receive at each of our offices.
PHCA is offering COVID-19 vaccine appointments in ALL of our offices to eligible patients, patients' families and friends 12 years of age and older. You do not need to be a registered family at PHCA to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in our office! Please call 978-818-6792 to book your appointment.
We continue to work hard to have a safe environment for you when you come in for your visit.
We have designated our Salem, Reading and Melrose offices as Well Child offices, for patients to keep up with their Well Child Visits, and for acute care of patients who do not have fever or respiratory symptoms.
We have divided our Peabody office to provide both Well Care and Acute Sick Care in distinct, separate areas of the office with separate entrances. Please use the main entrance for Acute Care, and our side entrance (around the left side of the building as you face it) for Well Care visits.
Our Lynn office will be seeing Well Care patients in the morning, and Acute Sick Care patients from the mid-afternoon on.
We encourage you to continue to be seen for your well visits, especially for infants in need of their routine immunizations and developmental check-ups. Appointments for acute visits will be screened by our staff and scheduled in the appropriate location. All visitors to each office location will be screened prior to entering the office.
To protect our patients who have yet to be eligible to be immunized for the COVID-19 vaccine, we prefer that whenever possible, only 1 parent or guardian accompany the scheduled patient to their visit. We are happy to welcome other family members to attend visits when they are fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.
We are utilizing online Virtual Visits for care for families who cannot come to the office or prefer to be evaluated remotely when this is clinically appropriate. As noted above, an active MyChart Patient Portal account is required for an online virtual visit. To help facilitate HIPAA compliant communications between PHCA and our patients, we strongly recommend that every family at PHCA have an active MyChart account. For assistance in activating a MyChart Account please call our office at 978-535-1110, option 8.
Unless your child clearly needs emergency care, please call us first. Let us help you decide how to best help your child. We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Marie McDermott is a registered nurse specializing in newborn care and certified by the International Board of Certified Lactation, and has been with our practice since 1999.
We are now offering Virtual Visits as an additional means of extending care to our patients. These visits will connect you to a PHCA clinician though a secure and confidential live-interactive video system.
PHCA is offering COVID-19 vaccine appointments in ALL of our offices to eligible patients, patients' families and friends 12 years of age and older. You do not need to be a registered family at PHCA to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in our office! Please call 978-818-6792 to book your appointment.
Congratulations to Dr. Scaramozza who was named 2021 Top Doctors by Boston Magazine!
The clinicians at PHCA know that families remain concerned about their health and safety when coming to a medical facility during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is important to stay current with your routine and preventative health care needs as well as to not delay evaluation of current symptoms that you may be experiencing. Please read and share the below letter to our patients and families explaining how PHCA has adapted to the current health care environment.
Download our Patient Letter
PHCA is now offering on-site rapid testing for COVID-19. The rapid COVID-19 PCR test is currently available only for symptomatic patients who are being evaluated in the office, or have had a virtual visit with a PHCA provider. We continue to offer send out testing for patients without symptoms who require surveillance testing. For more information about rapid COVID-19 testing at PHCA, click here.
Rapid COVID-19 testing is subject to the availability of testing supplies from the manufacturer. Our staff will let you know if this testing is available at the time of your visit.
The providers at PHCA strongly encourage our patients to get their flu vaccine this fall. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for social distancing, we will not be holding walk-in flu clinics. Appointments for flu vaccine will be required. Please call the office to schedule a flu clinic appointment. You can also schedule your flu clinic appointments through our online portal, MyChart. If you do not have an active MyChart account, please call our office at 978-535-1110, option 8 for assistance in creating your account. We recommend that every family at PHCA have an active MyChart account.
Dec 05, 2019
It saddens us to announce that one of the co-founders of Pediatric Health Care Associates P.C. is retiring. Doctor Richard Lipman has decided to open a new chapter in his life and begin his retirement...
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The providers at PHCA strongly encourage our patients to get their flu vaccine this fall. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for social distancing, we will not be holding walk-in flu clinics. Appointments for flu vaccine will be required.
Please call the office to schedule a flu clinic appointment. You can also schedule your flu clinic appointments through our online portal, MyChart. If you do not have an active MyChart account, please call our office at 978-535-1110, option 8 for assistance in creating your account. We recommend that every family at PHCA have an active MyChart account.
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