We are a mobile urgent care for sick kids in Charlotte, Raleigh, and northern Virginia!
04/08/2026
Never fails. You’ve got your day planned and then BAM. The unexpected fever and sore throat derails the day.
You call the pediatrician’s office to see what they have available. They can see him but it’s right when you’re supposed to be getting your other kids off the bus.
You hop online and go to www.pedshousecalls.com and self-book an appointment with Pediatric Housecalls instead. One of their doctors is coming to your house in an hour. Can run the Strep test right in your living room. Kiddo doesn’t even have to leave the couch. Which is good, because he’s starting to look more miserable by the minute.
The whole thing takes less than 20 minutes. And you didn’t have to leave your house. Prescription sent electronically to your pharmacy.
You question why you’ve never used Pediatric Housecalls until now. They take your insurance. They bring stickers. They are moms themselves. They save the day.
Game. Changer. A form of self-care for moms.
04/05/2026
Happy Easter from all of us at Pediatric Housecalls! 😁🐰🐣🌷
04/03/2026
Working moms, stay-at-home moms, moms of littles, moms of teens, moms who simply value their time (and sanity) as their most precious commodity…Pediatric Housecalls is the ultimate mom hack. No joining fees, no commitment, use the service once or as many time as you need. An urgent care for kids that comes to YOU. For real. You stay home. A doctor show up, rings your doorbell, and treats your kid right in your family room on the couch. In-network with insurance. Self-book appts online at www.pedshousecalls.com
04/01/2026
It’s April 1st but we aren’t fooling anyone! Three new IV fluids nurses means we have increased availability for in-home IV fluids for BOTH kids and adults. Self-book at ➡️ www.pedshousecalls.com
Life Just Got a Little Easier. No more waiting in germ-filled waiting rooms or rearranging of schedules. No Membership Fees.
03/25/2026
✅What we are: An at-home pediatric urgent care. You stay at home and we come to you!
❌What we are not: a bougie concierge practice with sky-high membership fees
We take insurance, there are no membership fees (you get to keep your regular pediatrician), and our convenience fee (the per-visit cash travel fee) is less than a copay in many instances.
✅Where we are: Charlotte, NC (& surrounding areas), Raleigh, NC (by hybrid virtual visit), and Northern Virginia (Loudoun and Fairfax counties), and more…coming soon. 😉
03/20/2026
Happy First Day of Spring! 🌷🤧😅
03/19/2026
That “quick” trip to the ER or hospital-owned Urgent Care Center? It’s not just the care you’re paying for. It’s the Facility Fee - a hospital charge that can add hundreds and even thousands to your bill.
Same ear infection.
Same Strep test.
Very different price tag, depending on where you go. It’s maddening. And quite frankly, unfair.
Despite the fact that Pediatric Housecalls provides what some would consider to be a “luxury” service (having a board-certified pediatrician or pediatric nurse practitioner come to your home to deliver care to your child), our costs are lower than hospital-owned brick-and-mortar facilities. Our contracted insurance rates for the same Strep test, the same ear check, are significantly more cost-effective when doing a side-by-side comparison. And since we are mobile, there is no facility fee. And our convenience fees? Nowhere near those inflated facility fees.
03/17/2026
No pinches happening to us today! May the luck of the Irish find you today and may the leprechauns behave! 🍀🌈
Share your St. Patrick’s Day outfits,
leprechaun traps, and naughty leprechaun shenanigans with us in the comments!
03/12/2026
Check out this article on Dr. Nina Niu, one of our rockstar pediatricians making house calls for Pediatric Housecalls in the northern Virginia area! ❤️
03/08/2026
It’s International Women’s Day! We may be biased but we sure do love our women-led team at Pediatric Housecalls, and you can bet that every single one of us was once just a little girl with big dreams! May the little girls with dreams of today become the next generation of women with vision, whatever those dreams and that vision may be! ✨
03/06/2026
Attention Raleigh/Triangle families! 🥰
03/05/2026
Teaching Thursday!
Q: Name that rash!
This patient was diagnosed with Influenza B two days ago. His influenza symptoms were fever, sore throat, congestion, and cough. Strep test was negative on the same day as the Flu test. He woke up this morning with this rash. What is it?
A: Gianotti-Crosti rash
☑️This is a fairly common rash in children that is triggered by a virus. (Influenza viruses can trigger it, but so can any number of other viruses like mono/Epstein-Barr virus, adenovirus, and many others)
☑️Caused by the body’s immune system, it is considered a form of delayed hypersensitivity reaction to the virus
☑️The typical pattern is a symmetric (on both sides of the body) rash on the extremities and buttocks that looks like *dramatic* red raised bumps, pustules, or vesicles.
☑️ It is not dangerous and it is not contagious, despite its appearance
☑️ There is no treatment for it, but it goes away on its own over the course of several weeks.
☑️ It is sometimes itchy, in which case topical cortisone creams and/or oral long-acting non-sedating antihistamines (Zyrtec, Xyzal, etc.) can help relieve the itch
☑️What’s up with the funky name? It’s named after two Italian doctors, Ferdinando Gianotti and Agostino Crosti who first described it back in 1955.
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We get one shot at this thing called life. As women, we often talk about finding that nirvana of personal and professional fulfillment, but it seems like most of our lives (heck, most of our days) are spent just trying to get from one end of the day to the other.
So often, our lives become covered up with carpools, making lunches, shuttling to dance class, and helping with homework. The idea of holding up a dream, studying it, working towards it, and bringing it to life can seem overwhelming and out of reach. In my 20’s my dream looked something like this: Go to medical school, study like a madman, earn top scores, become a pediatrician, and ride off into the sunset.
In my 30’s things changed (funny how meeting your soulmate and starting a family changes things!) and the dream began to look a little more like this: Survive sleepless nights with a newborn (eventually 3 times over), nurture them, protect them, be present for them, teach them, feed them, enrich them. Oh and there’s a husband that I’d like to spend a little bit of time with too!
So, you can see how, by mid-way through my 30’s, I was forced to come face to face with the idea that the original dream and the current dream didn’t gel with one another. Am I sounding familiar to anyone at all? Fast-forward to my favorite decade yet, my 40’s. (Although I am told that my 50’s will be even more wonderful and fulfilling!)
The idea of Pediatric Housecalls was born out of boldness, a sense of purpose, and the little bit of wisdom that finds its way back into your life during your 40’s. It was born out of a personal desire to create a way to practice medicine (the original “dream”), while being able to call the shots, be the boss of my own schedule, and still be the kind of wife and mother that had a starring role in dream #2.
It was born out of a desire to make life just a little bit easier for parents and kids. And while the idea, the brainstorming, and the planning all originated from these very personal dreams...a funny thing happened along the way to bringing Pediatric Housecalls to fruition. It began to resonate with other women. Women who had similar details buried in their own life’s dreams. Women who have so many gifts to offer the world but who maybe hadn’t yet found that blissful combination of things that add up to what some experts call “work-life balance.”
Before I knew it, the universe had brought a team of vibrant, smart, beautiful women into my life to become part of the Pediatric Housecalls team. And suddenly, what was once a tiny little personal dream, was now part of a bigger mission to empower women and the children they care for. I believe with all of my being that some of the world’s greatest healers, medical providers, and nurturers, are mothers themselves. And I also know that you will not find a more caring and dedicated group of women to care for your children.
I hope you’ll take the time to get to know us better, and I hope we have the privilege of making your life JUST a little bit easier.
