Little Spurs Pediatric Urgent Care to provide after-hours pediatric care for Children’s Hospital of San Antonio patients
In an effort to reduce emergency room visits and provide convenient locations for pediatric after hours care, Children’s Hospital of San Antonio has solidified agreements with Little Spurs Pediatric Urgent Care to provide after-hours care for San Antonio’s smallest patients.
“Parents need resources that connect their primary care pediatricians and specialists with urgent care centers for those minor emergencies that do not require an emergency room visit. By connecting all of our pediatricians, specialists, nurses and resources, our kids will get a continuum of care like never before,” said CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System CEO Pat Carrier. “From primary care, specialist care, urgent care and hospital care, we are aligning the best minds and hearts in pediatric medicine.”
Little Spurs Pediatric Urgent Care has four San Antonio locations, as well as a center in Schertz. All offices are equipped with x-ray and lab facilities, and treat illnesses and minor emergencies like ear/eye infections, UTI’s, lacerations and broken bones when the child’s pediatrician’s office is not available. The centers will serve primarily as after-hours care for Children’s Hospital of San Antonio patients, with the hospital providing specialist care at selected Little Spurs locations for easy access and communication with child’s primary pediatrician.
“Little Spurs has strategically built centers in locations that make it convenient for parents to get the medical care their kids need and avoid long waits in Emergency Rooms—whether it’s a sore throat, injury or follow up care from surgery,” said Thomas Spurgat, MD, Little Spurs Pediatric Urgent Care CEO. “Working with the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio provides the link to primary care and hospital care that we have been searching for—it’s integrative medicine at its finest.”
The agreement between Little Spurs and the Children’s Hospital of San Antonio fully embraces the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations that each child should have a medical home with a personal physician who knows them well and coordinates all of their care. Furthermore, the partnership supports seamless communication between care sites, and fulfills the commitment to provide quality, pediatric-focused care guided by pediatricians using evidence-based medicine principles of care. “We 100 percent agree with the AAP. It’s always been our goal to support San Antonio’s pediatricians—they are the link that keeps the care chain working together,” said Carrier.