Pediatric Urgent Care: A Case Study

HOPEWELL JUNCTION, N.Y. — Some people look at children and see brats. Annie Miranda, MD, PhD, medical director of Express Pediatrics: Walk in Urgent Care for Children, on the other hand, has almost endless enthusiasm for children and is motivated by them.

There is a feeling of humor and happiness that is renewed by each child’s raw emotional presence...,” Miranda said. “It’s impossible not to be affected by a child’s smile.”

Miranda has a PhD is in biopsychology and was director of the North Central Bronx Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department for 10 years before moving upstate to open her own practice. Express Pediatrics opened in September and is located an hour-and-a-half south of Albany and an hour-and-a-half north of New York City. The clinic provides urgent care to children from newborns to 19 years old.

“I looked around for a pediatric ER up here locally and found that it didn’t exist yet,” Miranda said. “The ideal thing seemed to be to put it together myself. It was a time of life for me that taking a big risk felt possible, and I began collecting information to see if I could do it.

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