Tidewater Childrens Associates's Online Review Report Card

All the doctors are amazing here

Great nurses and doctors and front staff. It’s clean, professional, friendly and they work well together. They review charts and help you get the best situation for your child. I am really grateful I found this doctors office.

I feel like as of lately, the only good thing about this place is Doctor Karp. Maybe it is just me. But it feels rather ridiculous that if I call today and there are no appointments available then I cannot make an appointment for tomorrow. They tell me all I can do is call back after 7:45 in the morning if I want to schedule an appointment for tomorrow. Are all pediatric office policies that parents can not make an appointment for their child without calling the day of?? Anyone else with this problem at Tidewater Childrens Associates?

They are the worseeeeeee wait time’s extremely high I hate them

Be prepared to spend the day. Appointments never run on time even when it’s not busy.

My kids have gone here their whole lives. I haven’t had a bad experience yet. Wait times are minimal, staff is friendly, practitioners are knowledgeable and kind. But let me tell you about my most impressive experience! Recently, I took in a child who isn’t biologically mine and struggled with getting records to enroll them as a new patient, but Madison (front of office staff) was incredibly helpful. She went above and beyond to help me under our unusual circumstances and was always so pleasant, kind, and empathetic. The world needs more Madisons. This young woman deserves enormous recognition, I can only hope that the practice recognizes what an asset she truly is.

I have a severely disabled kid (19, developmentally maybe 2) her wheelchair broke but I need a prescription....that I can't get an appointment for until JULY! I can't carry her!!! She is 145 pounds.

Male doctor told me "the only way to get your child healthy is by vaccines" I laughed & said... "you cant be serious... i know you get paid everytime someone vaccinates their child. I can't believe you're really thinking im dumb enough to believe what is coming out of your mouth! A healthy body starts by eating a healthy balanced diet.... So please stop.. i cant believe you really just said that!" He looked shocked and said well vaccinations help so if you change your mind....." I cut him off and said I absolutely will NOT change my mind. I'm done here, im irritated. The nurses are great... but so far the male doctors are not!

Terrible terrible office! I will no longer be using any sort of pediatric care here. Huge red flag is when the doctor and I agreed on only 2 vaccines rather than 7 at his 2 month appointment. Yes 7 vaccines! The doctor agreed on the 2 and then nurse comes to administer the shot and I happen to ask her what vaccines is this?She tells me its the 7 different vaccines. If I hadn't caught that my baby would have gotten 7 shots in his little body at 2 months old. I don’t even like taking my child here because they want to constantly compare your child to arches on computers who knows if it’s based off new data, Breastfed, or formula fed babies. They stuff formula information down your throat. My baby shows all signs of getting enough milk including all the wet diapers, still gaining weight, and when I brought up the idea it could be reflux or lip tie he just order Pepcid to try and didn’t even check and see the lip tie when I made that concern. When I asked what to do he just said “I can just give you a ent referral.” It’s like a bad interview of how you’re feeding them. Terrible outdated advice. The Doctor here has no support for breast feeding and no recommendations for any sort of breast feeding support or Lactation Consultant. Don’t let your child come here if you care for their well-being, be their advocate!

Get ready to wait for atleast half an hour whether it is to make appointment or talk to nurse. Update: actually I waited for almost 1.5 hours to talk to nurse but no one received my call.