Overview
At Akron Children’s Urgent Care, our sole focus is kids and teens. Our urgent care pediatricians care for common illnesses and minor injuries, from strains and sprains to fevers and pains. We offer wound evaluation and stitches for simple cuts of the face, chin, arms, legs and scalp. Deep or long cuts can be assessed in urgent care, but patients may be referred to the emergency room if the wound is more complicated.
We offer weekday and weekend hours to meet the needs of busy families.
Locations/Contact Us
Akron Children's Hospital Urgent Care, Boston Heights
Boston Heights Health Center
328 East Hines Hill Road
Boston Heights, Ohio 44236
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Akron Children's Hospital Urgent Care, Mansfield
Akron Children's Health Center
1029 South Trimble Road
Mansfield, Ohio 44906
Fax: 419-522-0837
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Akron Children's Hospital Pediatric Urgent Care: Montrose, Medina, Akron
4125 Medina Road
Akron, Ohio 44333
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Akron Children's Hospital Pediatric Urgent Care, Warren
5000 East Market Street
Suite 29
Warren, Ohio 44484
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Our Doctors/Providers
Medical Director, Urgent Care; Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician
Shannon Andrish, MD
Pediatric Urgent Care Physician
Helai Ghani, MD
Pediatric Urgent Care Physician
William Goldman, DO
Site Director, Hudson Pediatric Urgent Care; Medical Director, Addiction Service Program
H. Steven Lawrence, MD
Pediatrician
Alison Matthews, MD, FAAP
Pediatric Urgent Care Physician
Carolyn Penrod, MD, FAAP
Pediatric Urgent Care Physician
James Rauchenstein, MD
Pediatric Urgent Care Physician
Aamne Shalabi, MD
Pediatrician
Samantha Siedlecki, MD
Pediatrician
Daniel Tabaka, DO, FAAP
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician
Wade Wilde, MD
Pediatric Urgent Care Physician
Urgent Care or Emergency Room?
These are general guidelines for conditions we treat in urgent care.
Cuts, scrapes and burns
- Wound evaluation and stitches for simple cuts of the face, chin, arms, legs and scalp
- Deep or long cuts can be assessed in urgent care, but patients may be referred to the emergency room if the wound is more complicated
Sunburn
- Burn with blister or loss of skin that is smaller than the size of a quarter
- Boil, the size of a dime or smaller
Head
- Common issues: runny nose, ear pain, pink eye, sore throat, allergy symptoms, a visible foreign body in the nose or ear
- Headache without nausea, vomiting or vision changes
- Worsening headache or migraine that doesn’t response to at-home care
Neck
- Swollen glands for less than 2 weeks
Chest
- Cough
- Croup with no trouble breathing
- Mild asthma attack. If you child has trouble breathing plus difficulty speaking, noisy breathing or pulling of rib/stomach muscles, go to the ER
Stomach
- Mild stomach pain, vomiting or diarrhea
- Swallowed metal object with no pain or difficulty breathing/swallowing
Urinary/Bladder
- Urinary infection with fever less than 103 degrees
- Sexually transmitted infection, male. Sexually transmitted infections in females, or gynecologic concerns, should be treated in the ER
Extremity
- Broken bone or sprain, no bleeding
- Pulled muscle
- Mild back pain, able to walk without numbness or tingling in legs
Skin
- Rashes
- Allergic reactions that result in a rash
Fever
- Babies older than 12 weeks with fever
- Kids with immune problems like sickle cell or cancer – or a fever lasting longer than 5 days – should go to the ER
*Some patients may be referred to the emergency room for a more advanced level of care.
