Preventive Care

Routine visits to your child’s doctor, as they become teenagers help to keep your child healthy. Each visit is an opportunity to check on your child’s growth and development. It’s also a chance to check in with your teen on their emotional well-being and to talk to them about risky behaviors such as tobacco, alcohol, or other drug use; pregnancy; sexual health; and violence. The quality scores below show how each doctor's office rated at providing this recommended care.

Getting preventive care on schedule helps women stay healthy by finding diseases early when treatment is easier and more successful. This includes recommended screenings for breast cancer, cervical cancer and Chlamydia. There are national standards for quality care that tell which groups of women should be getting certain types of preventive care tests and how often these tests should be done. Women should talk to their doctor about which tests they should be receiving.

Routine well child visits are important for the health of your child. These visits are not the same as visits to a doctor when your child is sick. At well child visits, doctors check your child's height, weight, hearing, and vision to see how your child is developing. Your child's doctor will also ask questions about how your child is eating and behaving, and provide important preventive care, such as immunizations (shots to protect against childhood diseases). Well child visits are an opportunity for you to discuss questions and concerns that you may not be able to talk about during your child's sick visits.