LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Your own home is now your ready room, because the Las Vegas valley’s first pediatric van is in service. It is marketed as the one pediatric-specific cellular van in Las Vegas by founder Dr. Robert Wilkinson, a pediatric emergency physician.
“I was in the ER, it was just right after COVID and I was frustrated with how long the wait times were,” Wilkinson mentioned. “The volumes we were seeing, a lot of kids that needed to be seen but not necessarily in the ER. You look around the valley, and we just don’t have a lot of options. We have a lot of amazing pediatricians; we just don’t have enough of them. If you call your pediatrician for a sick visit they may not have any room.”
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With three working vans, two docs together with Wilkinson and Dr. Emily Peterson, there are additionally seven nurse practitioners and several other technicians. They began seeing sufferers in 2024.
You can also make an appointment by calling or going surfing to the IncrediCare Pediatrics web site. The corporate additionally gives pressing care and a few main care providers.
“We have rapid testing for COVID, flu, RSV. We have suction devices, oxygen. We have breathing treatments. We have all the things to do stitches, abscess drainages,” Wilkinson mentioned. ” Right now, we take HPN, Sierra Health and Life and some UMR plans for primary care.”
Wilkinson mentioned he needed to make sure high quality service might be accessible and reasonably priced to anybody within the valley.
“We accept Medicaid, we take HPN Medicaid, BlueCross Blue Shield Medicaid and the thing I love is I can be up in the ridges assisting one of those families and then I can drive downtown or intercity and I can give the exact same care for those people,” he mentioned.
Victoria Martinez is a mum or dad and founding father of Sundown Montessori College. She is aware of how overwhelming it may be for folks when their baby has to overlook faculty once they’re sick.
“I would think our parents would be very excited to know there’s something like that can be available for them, like not missing work but being able to come to their house and getting that doctor’s note and making sure their kids are going to be safe and healthy,” she mentioned.
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Martinez mentioned that having extra healthcare and the flexibleness choices of a pediatric van will make all of the distinction.
“Taking my daughter to the pediatrician, just to get her in takes me two or three weeks. But if she needs to see someone, it’s good to have an option that comes to you,” Martinez mentioned.
The van runs from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days every week and the medical group sees between 20 and 30 sufferers a day.
Wilkinson mentioned the corporate is now engaged on getting moveable X-ray machines.
Incredicare is a nonprofit group. Wilkinson mentioned that if anybody locally is fascinated by serving to Incredicare’s aim of bringing high quality pediatric care within the valley, you’ll be able to name or e mail InCredicare Pediatrics.
