Welcome to Hampton Village Pediatrics!
A family-centered medical home is not a building, house, hospital, or home healthcare service, but rather an approach to providing comprehensive primary care.
In a family-centered medical home the pediatric care team works in partnership with a child and a child’s family to assure that all of the medical and non-medical needs of the patient are met.
Through this partnership, the pediatric care team can help the family/patient access, coordinate, and understand specialty care, educational services, out-of-home care, family support, and other public and private community services that are important for the overall health of the child and family.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) developed the medical home model for delivering primary care that is accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, and culturally effective for all children and youth, including children and youth with special health care needs. Dr. Melissa Whitson and the staff at Hampton Village Pediatrics are wholeheartedly in alignment with this pediatric care philosophy. We encourage diversity. Please call us at 314-351-2004 to set up an appointment should you believe we would be a good fit for your family.
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Lead and Children
AAP Commends CDC for Recognizing That for Children, There is No Safe Level of Lead Exposure. The Agency’s focus on preventing lead exposure is a strong step forward to protect children’s health. Washington, DC—The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) commends the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for supporting its Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention’s recommendations to redefine lead exposure
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This Is Your Brain On Sugar
The UCLA team zeroed in on high-fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive liquid six times sweeter than cane sugar, that is commonly added to processed foods, including soft drinks, condiments, applesauce and baby food. The average American consumes more than 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “We’re not talking about naturally occurring fructose in fruits, which
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It’s Elementary…
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. —Cezar Chavez So in St. Louis at the Missouri History Museum, just a few hours away from Springfield, MO, I wondered how many other students all across the
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