Your Clinic Visit

Clinic Hours

For scheduled routine visits with doctors and other health care providers:
8 AM – 5 PM, Monday – Friday

Steps for a Clinic Visit

1. Check in at Registration

  • Please bring all the medicines your child is taking at home
  • Remember to arrive one hour before your appointment
  • Patients without central lines should go to the Anderson Lab for a blood draw before coming to the cilnic
  • Patients with central lines will have blood drawn by the clinic nurses after being seen in Vital Signs/Station #2.

2. Go to Vital Signs/Station #2 for Measurements

  • Height
  • Weight
  • Vital Signs
    • Temperature
    • Blood Pressure

3. Laboratory Tests

  • Lab tests are required before most clinic appointments
  • Results are available within approximately one hour

4. Clinic Appointment with Doctor/Health Care Provider

  • Review and explanation of lab results
  • Physical examination
  • Review and explanation of treatment plans
  • New/refill prescriptions are given
  • Treatments (including chemotherapy, spinal tap, and others) may be done in Day Hospital depending on the type/length of treatments

5. Follow-up Appointments

  • Made by Patient Assistant Liaison

6. Review Instructions

  • Home care instructions
  • Future appointments
  • Medicines
  • Treatments