Pediatric and Adolescent Care

Does you kiddo get a terrible cold in the spring? Poor little thing, may have seasonal allergies. And we can help with that! We are here to help our patients feel more comfortable all year long. At Northern Light Allergy and Immunology, we offer testing to uncover the source of environmental and food allergies.

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Our pediatric behavioral health services are based in scientific evidence. They are family and youth focused and designed to make a life-long difference for your child. 

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​Raish Peavey Haskell Children’s Cancer and Treatment Center specializes in the care of newborns to age 25 with hematologic and oncologic concerns. We have a strong commitment to family centered care, which includes clear communication with referring providers.

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Our pediatric cardiology team routinely provides cardiac consultation and diagnostic cardiac imaging for children throughout our region who need evaluation for potential congenital or acquired heart disease.

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A cleft lip and palate can be a distressing condition for a child and her family to deal with, but at Northern Light Health we’re here for you.

Coordinated, collaborative and customized care

Patients of all ages—from prenatal to adolescent—will receive care from a team of experts on cleft lip, cleft palate and other craniofacial disorders.

Wide ranging expertise

Families will have access to the following specialists: audiologist, ear/nose/throat specialist, geneticist, genetics counselor, nurse, oral surgeon, orthodontist, pediatric dentist, pediatrician, plastic surgeon, prosthodonist speech/language pathologist, and social worker/clinical coordinator.

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If your child has an illness or injury that results in an unstable or critical condition, a hospital-based pediatric critical care specialist can be called on to provide the special care that your infant, child, or adolescent needs.

Our pediatric critical care specialist, also called a pediatric intensivist, care for critically ill children who originate at any of numerous smaller hospitals around the state. Children who are critically ill generally require meticulous monitoring in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Our pediatric intensivists coordinate their care with a specialized team of nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and other pediatric health care specialists. They use  specialized medicines and/or treatments, many of which can only be offered in a PICU.

Pediatric critical care conditions treated and services available at Northern Light Health:

• Diagnosis of children who have unstable or life-threatening conditions, including those with previously undiagnosed diseases

• Thorough monitoring, medication, and treatment of children in the Pediatric ICU (PICU)

• Supervision of children on ventilators (“breathing machines”)

• Medical treatment for children with severe heart and lung disease

• Placement of special catheters in the blood vessels and heart

• Management of medications and treatments for children with brain trauma

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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic disease primarily affecting the lungs and pancreas.  At Northern Light Healthcare, a multidisciplinary team will develop a personalized plan to help each patient receive the highest quality of care to manage CF.

Your CF treatment team will be composed of physicians, nurses, a social worker, a registered dietician, a pulmonary function technologist, a registered respiratory therapist, and a child life specialist. 

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Pediatric Dermatology puts kids first, to help them feel comfortable in their skin.

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Our Pediatric Endocrinology team includes pediatric endocrinologists, a diabetes physician assistant, diabetes/endocrine educators, and registered dietitians. 

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Our pediatric otolaryngologists specialize in the ear, nose, and throats of your little ones. Those returning sore throats or earaches that never seem to go away need special attention. We are here to help you.

Pediatric Ear, Nose, and Throat Care services we provide include: 

• Pediatric adenoidectomy
• Pediatric and adult ear surgery
• Pediatric ear, nose, and throat
• Pediatric tonsillectomy

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Our pediatric forensic team offers evaluations for infants, children, and adolescents who may have experienced physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or neglect.

This service is collaboration between Northern Light Health staff and the staff from Spurwink Child Abuse Program. Many who are seen receive a medical/forensic evaluation which includes an interview of the parent or guardian and an examination of the child by the program physician. The evaluation results in a medical diagnosis pertaining to the question of abuse and recommendations for further evaluation and treatment. 

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Our pediatric gastroenterology team provides diagnostic, therapeutic, and consultative care for disorders of the digestive system.

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When your child is sick and needs to be admitted to the hospital, they are going to be cared for by a pediatric hospitalist. A pediatric hospitalist is a physician whose expertise lies in the care of sick children who are admitted to the hospital.

Over the last 10-20 years, it has become increasingly clear that in order to take excellent care of children in the hospital, the providers caring for these children need to possess a specialized set of skills; skills focused solely on the inpatient management of pediatric illnesses, which are distinct from those skills that allow us to take excellent care of children in the outpatient/clinic setting. So when your child is admitted to a pediatric inpatient unit, you know that a physician who specializes exclusively in the management of hospitalized children will care for them. 

Some of the common conditions that we treat with pediatric hospital care include:

• Respiratory Illnesses (Asthma, Bronchiolitis, Pneumonia)
• Hyperbilirubinemia
• Infant Fever
• Abscesses/Cellulitis
• Gastroenteritis/Dehydration
• Diabetes
• Seizure Disorders
• Failure to Thrive/Poor Weight Gain

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We think of ourselves as “medical detectives” evaluating children with symptoms that are atypical, recurrent, or unexplained to give you answers when you need them most.

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Pediatric Neurology cares for children from infancy to adolescence with all forms of neurologic disorders.

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Pediatric neuropsychological evaluation helps build a profile of a child’s functioning in areas such as memory, attention, perception, coordination, language, and personality. Children referred for a neuropsychological evaluation typically are experiencing problems such as: difficulty with learning, attention and behavior; a disease or developmental problem affecting the brain; or a brain injury from an accident, birth trauma, or other physical stress.

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We have the only pediatric orthopedic center north of Boston that dedicates its entire practice to the diagnosis, non-surgical, and surgical treatment of all types of bone, joint, and muscle disorders in children and adolescents.

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Our pediatric care practices deliver excellent well-child sick care for people up to age 18, with an emphasis on community pediatrics and personalized care.

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Spina bifida is a birth defect where there is incomplete closing of the backbone and membranes around the spinal cord. Our multidisciplinary team at Northern Light Health provides consultations to you and helps tailor treatment to the specific needs of each child or adult patient with spina bifida.

A team of experts to personalize treatment for you

Your team is comprised of a urologist, an orthopedic surgeon, a developmental pediatrician, a registered nurse, a physical therapist, and a certified orthotist/prosthetist. 

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We understand that it is can be a stressful time for families when their child needs surgery. Our pediatric surgeons care for children of all ages, from newborns to adolescents, with the special expertise necessary to treat these young people whose bodies are still growing.

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If your baby needs extra care, the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center offers highly specialized care and advanced technology with personalized attention and a compassionate touch. 

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