Our Practice
Our Mission
Our Services
Our Services
Pediatrics at Cherry Creek strives to be a medical home to all our patients from birth to young adulthood. We provide comprehensive medical care, including well visits, immunizations, parenting advice, minor trauma care, screening for behavioral health problems. We also provide our patients with integrated care coordination of their behavioral health, occupational therapy and/or speech therapy. For the convenience of our patients, we provide point-of-service phlebotomy and specimen gathering services and will work with the appropriate insurance-approved labs.
Our Services
Our Services
Our Services
Pediatrics at Cherry Creek provides a wide variety of comprehensive services to our patients from birth to age 22. These services include:
- Physicals
- ADHD evaluation and treatment
- Convenient in-office blood draws
- On-site lab testing for strep throat, influenza, urinalysis, hemoglobin and blood glucose
- Minor in-office procedures, such as wart removal, skin irritation, minor laceration repairs, foreign body removal
- Routine vision screening
- Vaccinations
We also offer on-call physician/nurse access evenings and on weekends (24/7). Triage staff is available during office hours to answer your questions.
Our Provider and Staff
Elisabeth Staerz M.D.
Elisabeth Staerz M.D.
Elisabeth Staerz M.D.
Dr. Elisabeth Staerz is a board-certified pediatrician and the owner of the practice. She was born in Germany and was trained at the Eberhard-Karls Medical School in Tuebingen and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She graduated in 1982 and became a board certified internist in Germany in 1989. She completed a residency in pediatrics at Th
Dr. Elisabeth Staerz is a board-certified pediatrician and the owner of the practice. She was born in Germany and was trained at the Eberhard-Karls Medical School in Tuebingen and Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She graduated in 1982 and became a board certified internist in Germany in 1989. She completed a residency in pediatrics at The Children's Hospital in Denver in 1992, and worked for the Children's Hospital after-hours system until 1999 when she joined Pediatrics at Cherry Creek. She has owned the practice since 2000.
Staff
Elisabeth Staerz M.D.
Elisabeth Staerz M.D.
Clinical Staff
Ethel Aguilar, Medical Assistant & Vaccine Coordinator
Melanie Quezada, Medical Assistant & Front Desk Administrator
Erin Myers, Medical Assistant & Referral Coordinator
Your Child's Health, Our Priority
Developmental Screening
Developmental Screening
Because your child's first 5 years of life are so important, we want to help you provide the best start for your child. For every well-child visit between 2 months and 5 years, we have parents complete the Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ-3), This tool helps identify any possible development concerns. You will be asked to answer questions about some things your child can and cannot do. The questionnaire includes asking about your child's communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal social skills. We ask that you complete the ASQ questionnaire at least 24-hours prior and not more than two weeks before your child's scheduled well child visit.
When Your Child Is Sick
Developmental Screening
If your child is experiencing a life-threatening emergency, CALL 9-1-1.
If you think your child needs urgent care*:
First, call our office and speak to the medical assistant. If it is after-hours, your call will be forwarded to our After Hours Nurse Line.
You may also contact Children's Hospital's free ParentSmart Healthline™ at (720) 777-0123 for advice. They can recommend appropriate care and direct you to an open facility, if needed.
PACC has a physician available 24 hours a day. After hours and on weekends, we always have a doctor on call that you can reach through our telephone answering service. Call our main number (303) 377-9663 to reach the answering service. They may connect you to the doctor on call or to the after-hours nurse triage line at Children’s Hospital Colorado
Well Child Visits
Well-child visits are an integral part of keeping your kids healthy and track their growth and development. They allow our providers to get to know you and your child, monitor any health or developmental concerns, answer your questions, and give you feedback and advice.
We use the following well-child schedule for in-office visits
- 10-14 days old
- 1 month (optional)
- 2 months
- 4 months
- 6 months
- 9 months
- 12 months
- 15 months
- 18 months
- 2 years old
- 2 1/2 years old
- 3 years old
- Every year thereafter
For older children and teenagers, well visits are required every 12 months if you need a provider signature on any forms – such as school health forms, camp forms, or sports forms.
Follow-up visits are also required every 3 months if your child is taking any on-going prescription medication from our office. These visits may be virtual visits at the discretion of the prescribing physician.
Immunizations
Colorado Immunization Information System
Immunizations were developed to protect against serious infectious diseases that are difficult or impossible to treat. The development of our currently available vaccines made it possible to prevent numerous debilitating and often fatal diseases in children and adults. Providing these vaccines to all of our population has kept our children and wider community healthy.
The CDC recommended vaccine schedule addresses the specific needs of people living in the United States. Other countries have developed different vaccine schedules to address different infectious and socioeconomic needs. We recommend the CDC vaccine schedule to our parents and patients as it provides the best protection for people living in the US.
Vaccines are powerful biological weapons in the fight to keep us all healthy. They have been tested extensively and have been proven to effective and safe. All medications have possible side effects, as do vaccines. We will discuss all vaccines/vaccine compounds, their effects and potential side effects with you before administering them to you or your child.
There are circumstances when we have to modify the CDC schedule. Examples are immune compromised children or their family member (no live vaccines), severe illness when the vaccine was supposed to be administered, previous allergic reactions to vaccines or their components.
We will set time aside to discuss vaccines before a planned visit, either in person or over the phone if you as a parent or patient have concerns.
FYI: Colorado Senate Bill 20-163 allows parents to decline immunizations based upon a religious belief whose teachings are opposed to immunizations or a personal belief that is opposed to immunizations. a person who wants to claim a non-medical exemption for an immunization can do so by submitting to the school either:
1) A certificate of completion of the online education module; or
2) A certificate of non-medical exemption
Insurances
Colorado Immunization Information System
Colorado Immunization Information System
We accept the following insurances.
Aetna
Anthem/Blue Cross
CHP+
CIGNA (Open Access Plus only)
Humana
Medicaid
United HealthCare
**It is your responsibility to understand the limitations and benefits of your insurance plan. We are not responsible if your insurance denies your claim due to network participation or grace period restrictions.
Please note: We do not accept PHCS, FirstHealth, Cofinity, Kaiser, Denver Health Medical Plan and Tricare. We also do not accept any medical cost-sharing plans (eg MediShare).
If we are unable to confirm your coverage at the time of service, you will be asked to pay for the visit in full.
Colorado Immunization Information System
Colorado Immunization Information System
Colorado Immunization Information System
Colorado Immunization Information System (CIIS) is a confidential, population-based, computerized system that collects and consolidates vaccination data for Coloradans of all ages from a variety of sources.
CIIS helps healthcare providers, schools, childcare centers, universities, and individuals keep track of the shots that they and/or their children have received.
CIIS is a program within the Colorado Immunization Section at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). CIIS is a lifelong immunization record tracking system under the Colorado Immunization Registry Act of 2007.
Learn more information on the CIIS program website. You may also print a copy of your child's immunization record at https://ciis.state.co.us/public/Application/PublicPortal
To exclude yours or your child’s information from CIIS, visit the CIIS opt-out procedures web page to opt out of the registry. You will also find information on how to rescind a prior opt out.