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Families, Kids Welcome to Specialty and Urgent Care Center for Fun Activities
By Debra Stevens
Phoenix Children?s Specialty & Urgent Care? Northwest Valley Center
Phoenix Children?s Hospital
Phoenix Children?s Hospital is bringing care closer to home for Northwest Valley families with the opening of a new Phoenix Children?s Specialty and Urgent Care - Northwest Valley Center. Although the center is already open for patient visits, the community is invited to the official grand opening celebration of this new 6,000-square-foot Center on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 from 9 a.m. to noon.
The open house event will feature fun, educational and interactive stations for kids, tours of the center, and mini-clinics on child health and safety for parents. The most popular activity allows kids to get a cast put on their finger. All activities are free.
The center is located at 20325 North 51st Avenue in Phoenix, just north of Loop 101.
The $3 million center will serve as a complement to pediatric practices in the neighborhood by providing convenient pediatric specialty care by appointment during the week. Parents will love the convenience of after hours, walk-in urgent care. For a child with a high fever, ear infection, sprain, or suspected pneumonia, the center provides exceptional care in a convenience, family-friendly setting.
Specific hours of operation and times are as follows: The Center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. for appointments with specialists in endocrinology, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology, orthopedics, pulmonology and lab services. Pediatric urgent care services are available Monday through Friday from 5 p.m. until 11 p.m. Weekend hours are noon to 11 p.m. For questions, please call (623) 972-KIDS (5437) or visit our web site at Here.
Keeping Your Family Safe I have sat at my desk a lot lately reading the many stories of children who have drowned, been ran over by a loved one, kidnapped, and all those horrific, every mothers worst nightmare types of stories. I know many of us think when we read these stories what we could , or what the other ?family? should have done to try and keep their little ones safe from harm. From accidents in the home, outside of the home, and unfortunate things we just cannot predict there are still many ways for us to practice ?safety? in general with our families. Below you will find some great tips and websites that help cater to keeping our families safe not matter what the emergency event.
In the home Our little ones can be awesome escape artists if we're not careful. If you have experienced one of these precious little busy bundles of joy you will know exactly what I mean. However just because we might not have an actively wanting to escape little one, doesn't mean it will never happen. Plus taking the following steps can help keep out things we don't want harming our family as well.
Make a nightly checklist Lock all doors, and windows. Think back did you open anything today? Are all keys put away to all vehicles and how easy are they to access. Did your child see you put away anything hazardous or open anything that is possibly dangerous for them to access? Are pool gates shut, locked? Alarms on? Alarms on vehicles? What medications are currently in your household, do they have child proof containers?
Also consider having a special shelf or cupboard that has snacks and drinks for your child/children. This can help avoid any accidents by climbing cupboards to reach foods and drinks while parents are asleep. Try a house-hold rule to not leave the bedrooms unless to the bathroom before a certain time. We try this to a 7am time in our house with our children while when they were younger we had to go with the ?when the sun is up? rule? it might not exactly be the idealistic thing to do even on a weekend, getting up early it can still mean your child is being supervised and therefore less likely to get in harms way.
While this seems like a tiresome routine its all common sense and can all lead to some sort of disaster. While we cannot keep our children in a ?bubble? we can at least do what we can within our means to keep them as safe as possible.
When you left the house, did you have any of the children following you, are you positive you saw them go back into the home, or are in plain view away from the vehicle?
Has your child been caught trying to leave the home without your knowledge? Is your toddler becoming a little too brave when it comes to being outside? Many home improvement stores like Lowes, and Home Depot carry small alarms that can be attached to any door or window, when the door, or window opens the alarm then goes off therefore alerting you. Another great alarm of course to mention is to keep up top date on your smoke alarms, and carbon monoxide alarms.
Do you take the same way to school every day? Predators can use this to their advantage, if you have the possibility, try using a different route to school, home, and various locations you often visit. Teach your children even at an early age what stranger danger is, the earlier they learn can be crucial as we can never predict these situations . Even if you go to the grocery store every Thursday can be used to a predators advantage!
Monthly or quarterly photos Did you change your child's hairstyle? Did they get glasses or contacts? Change hair color? These things are all reasons to update your child's photo in case of an emergency. Write down any new scars or breaks that may have happened and so forth.
These are just a few in MANY things we as parents can do to keep our children safe in our home at any age! Visit these websites below that also may assist you and/or give you ideas on how to keep your family safe!.
Looking for a new hairstyle and would love some great ideas from the pros?
Check out these celebrity moms and the hairstyles they are sporting!
Gwyneth Paltrow with a shoulder length cut and style.
Angelina Jolie who is not afraid to spot the long locks wherever she goes! AND she has SIX kids!
Halle Berry recently decided to cut it short and sport this chic hairstyle!
Isla Fischer sporting a straight sleek hairstyle! One of the key elements to helping create such a sleek and sexy straight look is using a ceramic plated flat iron, which you can easily find at any Beauty Supply store, Wal Greens, Wal-Mart and even CVS, this is a must-have tool for anyone and a quick and easy way to create gorgeous straight sleek locks in just minutes! A plus for any mom!
As you can see even Katie Holmes has opted for a long bob hairstyle which is very easy to style and overall easy to manage!
Whatever hairstyle type you are looking for, short, long or medium length come check out Celeb Salon for hundreds of celebrity hairstyles and ideas at your fingertips!
