How to Use Our Web Site
We have three main reasons for creating this web site: to introduce you to our practices; to define how we practice; and finally to impart as much information as we can for as many conditions as possible and to demonstrate a pathway to follow through the internet when the information we have is only rudimentary.
The Home page describes the purpose of the site, lists our physicians as links so that you can click on any of their names and reach their practice site, and gives an overview through the navigation bar of the kind of information we hope to impart.
The About Us link provides a brief history of the formation of Healthcare South and a brief description of our mission. It also mentions our corporate office in Pembroke where most of the billing and other administrative functions take place.
The Practices link directs you to all of our pediatric and family practice sites. Clicking on any of the sites will bring you to the site-specific home page with a listing of each of the providers, our pictures, a picture of our building, addresses, phone numbers, hours of operation and directions. The site page may also have some site-specific news such as the availability of flu shots or special links that are valuable for the practice.
The Forms link provides various forms such as the patient registration form or record release form that may be downloaded, filled out and mailed or carried to the office to facilitate your visit.
The Index link provides an alphabetical listing of the contents of the site with links to each of the pages.
The Contact Us link provides a method to send us messages about your concerns or questions about the site.
The Health Information link provides access to a number of our programs and general information regarding diseases and medications. There are a number of articles written by Dr. Jim Mitterando that have been published in the Patriot Ledger; most of these pertain to general medicine topics.
The Parent Resources link is mainly for parents. There are full discussions of disease that are very common like allergy and asthma and there are also links with many topics with explanations or discussions that come directly from the American Academy of Pediatrics. There are links for newborns through teens.
The Patient Information link describes the patient's bill of rights, the health insurances that we contract with, our and your responsibilities with these insurances, a description of how we run our practices with regard to well, sick, urgent and emergent phone calls or office visits, our after hours phone triage, our referral policy and our expectations of our specialist colleagues, our chaperone policy, and our unaccompanied minor policy. We have found over the years that it is very important to define carefully what we are offering and what we view our and your responsibilities to be. Please read all the links on this page carefully.
Finally, we have included our disclaimer and terms of use agreement.
