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The Hirsch Pediatrics After-Hours Resources…
If you have a life-threatening emergency, please dial 911 or proceed
immediately to the nearest emergency room. The emergency room
will contact Dr. Hirsch after you arrive.
For other urgent but non-life
threatening medical questions that arise after-hours or when the
office is closed for lunch, please call the main office number for
instructions on how to contact Dr. Hirsch directly. In the unlikely
event that 20 - 30 minutes have elapsed and you have not received
a response, please call back to have Dr. Hirsch paged again.
Please be advised
that although Dr. Hirsch is always available to his current patients
for after-hours emergencies, he is unable to manage or treat the
parents of patients as well as children who are patients of other
pediatric practices.
For non-emergent questions
or concerns, you may leave an after-hours phone message or send
an e-mail that will be responded to the next business day. Messages
expressing more urgent needs will be responded to first, thus allowing
your child to be seen at one of the earliest morning appointments.
Also, messages left during the lunch hour will be returned when
the office reopens after lunch.
If your child has an emergency
after office hours and we feel it would be unsafe to wait until
the next business day for an office visit, we will refer you to
a local urgent care center or emergency room.
Below, please find the
hours and contact information for the most commonly used urgent
care center and emergency rooms.
Righttime Care
Center - Gaithersburg in Muddy Branch Square Shopping Center
(Located 2.5 miles
(5 minutes) from Hirsch Pediatrics
Righttime
Care Center
- Rockville Pike
(Located
6 miles (11 minutes) from Hirsch Pediatrics
**You must call Righttime
Care Center at 888-808-6483 ahead of time to schedule
an appointment—they are no longer accepting walk-in appointments.
You may call
as early as 8 am to schedule an appointment.**
Open every day (including holidays and weekends) from 11
am - midnight
Righttime Care Center
is usually less expensive and faster than hospital emergency rooms
and will also see adults. They are well suited to handle most non-life
threatening situations and are ideal for situations like ear infections,
sore throats, rashes, and fever in children over 2 months of age.
Note: I would recommend a hospital emergency room
for more involved problems, including fever in children less than
2 months of age, difficulty breathing, and loss-of-consciousness.
Shady
Grove Adventist
Hospital (SGAH) Emergency Room
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9901 Medical Center
Drive
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* Located 1 mile (under
5 minutes) from Hirsch Pediatrics.
SGAH has a full service
separate pediatric emergency room staffed by pediatricians.
If your child needs to be admitted to the hospital, SGAH has a dedicated
pediatric department and pediatric intensive care unit.
Shady Grove
Adventist Emergency
Center at Germantown
* Located across from
the Germantown Town Center, 8 miles (about 10 minutes) from Hirsch
Pediatrics.
The Shady Grove Adventist
Emergency Center at Germantown is a free-standing emergency room.
Unlike the main ER attached to SGAH, the Germantown location does
not offer a separate pediatric emergency room or inpatient services.
However, it is well suited to most after-hours pediatric needs.
Suburban
Hospital Emergency Room
* Located 9.5 miles
(about 15 minutes) from Hirsch Pediatrics.
Suburban Hospital has
a separate, small, full service pediatric emergency room that is
staffed by pediatricians. If your child needs to be admitted to
the hospital, Suburban Hospital has a small pediatric department
located within the emergency room.
Montgomery General
Hospital Emergency Room
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18101 Prince Phillip Drive
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Olney, MD 20832
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301-774-8919
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* Located 10.5 miles
(about 24 minutes) from Hirsch Pediatrics.
Montgomery General Hospital
has a separate, small, full service pediatric emergency room that
is staffed by pediatricians. If your child needs to be admitted
to the hospital, Montgomery General Hospital has a small pediatric
department located within the emergency room.
Holy
Cross Hospital
(HCH) Emergency Room
* Located 13.3 miles (about 18
minutes) from Hirsch Pediatrics.
HCH has a separate full
service pediatric emergency room that is staffed by pediatricians.
If your child needs to be admitted to the hospital, HCH has a dedicated
pediatric department.
Children’s
National Medical Center (CNMC) Emergency Room
* Located 18.1 miles
(about 35 minutes without traffic) from Hirsch Pediatrics.
CNMC is one of the leading
children’s hospitals in the country. With the availability
of experts in virtually every pediatric subspecialty, CNMC is well-suited
to handle the most complex and unusual conditions.
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