After Hours Pediatrics offers timely treatment

After Hours Pediatrics is a fullservice acute care center providing pediatric medical care for children and youth up to age 18 on weekday evenings, weekends and most holidays.

Services include treatment of pediatric injuries, splinting, laceration repair, asthma treatment, pain management, lab tests and treatment of all pediatric illnesses, including ear infections, lung infections, rashes and high fevers.

The center has an onsite pharmacy which carries most commonly dispensed medications.

Advantages to choosing the center over an ER or hospital urgent care include the following:

+Typically, a child may be seen in less than an hour. The average wait time at the ER is about 4 to 6 hours and only slightly shorter at a hospital urgent care.

+Children are seen by a boardcertified pediatrician. At the ER or hospital urgent care, children are seen by doctors who generally treat adults.

+Young patients are in a childfriendly setting with other children. At a hospital urgent care or ER, a child will be among ill adults and exposed to traumatic scenes that may frighten them.

+Often, the cost of an ER or hospital urgent care visit is more than three times the cost of a visit to After Hours Pediatrics.

After Hours Pediatrics Inc. is at 2125 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd, Ste. B2, Thousand Oaks. For more information, call (805) 374-7874.