Click Here -> Update 9/19/2025 Re: RSV Vaccine Information
**Updated: 11/14/2025 PANA VACCINATION POLICY**
To our current and prospective patients,
We are very grateful for our community here at Pediatric Associates of North Atlanta. It gives us great pride and joy to be able to bring premier, evidence-based care to our patients and to watch them grow and thrive. As part of this evidence-based care, we adhere to the vaccine guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). We feel it is important to follow these recommendations as part of our practice. Our goal is to keep our patients healthy through adequate immunization practice and to protect them against preventable infections with their serious consequences.
We have made the decision to no longer accept new families to our practice who choose not to vaccinate their children at all. We do not want to offend anyone, but rather to treat our existing patients in a safe and evidence-based way.
We do not recommend alternate vaccine schedules because delaying vaccines can increase the chance of contracting a preventable infection. Alternate vaccine schedules also do not have scientific studies backing them, which means that we cannot know if they are equally as effective as the vaccine schedule set out by AAP.
We will continue to work with families who choose to delay vaccines, as long as we feel it is reasonable.
The link to the AAP guidelines for vaccinations is attached below for your reference. We also feel that our role as pediatricians is to have discussions regarding vaccine efficacy and safety, so we encourage you to ask us questions if you have them.
How Do Vaccines Work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8fewK2Vxes
Our practice believes that all children should receive the recommended vaccines according to the guidelines provided by the AAP. Vaccines are safe and effective in preventing diseases and health complications in children and young adults. Regular vaccinations help children ward off infections and are one of the safest and best methods of disease prevention.
Here is our office's current vaccine schedule.
Delaying vaccines puts your child and the children they come in contact with at risk for severe infections. We need to insure that our office and waiting room are safe for our patients. We strongly discourage delaying vaccines, as there is no evidence that delaying them makes them safer, and it leaves children unprotected for a greater period of time.
There is a great deal of science behind the recommended vaccine schedule. The success of immunizing for many years has allowed many people to worry less about the diseases and now worry about the vaccines instead. The risk of these vaccine-preventable diseases is far greater than unproven concerns about their safety. Your doctor will be happy to discuss any concerns that you may have. For more information, please visit:
Vaccine Safety: The Facts A brief fact sheet on vaccines from the AAP