Ongoing Care

WellStar offers long-standing, community-based pediatricians who are close to home and trained to:

• Help you determine healthy lifestyles for your child and useful ways to role model your choices
• Offer advice to prevent illness and injuries
• Provide early and appropriate care of acute illness to prevent its progression
• Treat life-threatening childhood conditions requiring intensive care
• Guide you in anticipating your child’s needs from newborn to adulthood

Pediatric Emergency and Immediate Care Center

Certified nurses with pediatric advanced life support certification work with WellStar’s board-certified emergency services physicians in the Pediatric EDs at WellStar Cobb and Kennestone hospitals. The Pediatric Emergency Department at WellStar Kennestone Hospital is open seven days a week, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. The Pediatric ED at WellStar Cobb Hospital is open seven days a week, 24 hours a day.