Primary Care in Rochester and Kasson

Child/Adolescent Schedule

The recommended healthcare preventive needs are constantly changing. Now a preventive care, or well-child, visit is recommended at least yearly. Although your personal health could impact these recommendations, the schedules below can help recommend the services that should be considered based upon your child's age. Get more information about vaccine and preventable disease complications.

Well-child visits can be schedules through the patient portal. Read more about scheduling well-child checkups.

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Age	Vaccine	Appointment Type
All > age 6 months	COVID-19 vaccination series	Vaccination only
Each year all > age 6 months	Influenza (Flu) (seasonal)	Vaccination only
< 8 months	Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) (seasonal)	Vaccination only
Newborn	HepB	At the hospital
3-5 days		Encounter
2 weeks - 1 month		Encounter Optional
2 months	PCV, RV5, DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB	Encounter
4 months	PCV, RV5, DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB	Encounter
6 months	PCV, RV5, DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB	Encounter/Alternative Option
9 months		Encounter
12 months	HepA, MMR, VAR	Encounter/Alternative Option
15 months	PCV, DTaP-IPV/Hib	Encounter
18 months		Encounter/Alternative Option
2 years	HepA	Encounter
30 months		Encounter
3 years		Encounter
4 years	DTaP-IPV, MMR, VAR	Encounter
5 years		Encounter
6 years		Encounter
7 years		Encounter/Alternative Option
8 years		Encounter
9 years	HPV (2 doses 6 months apart)	Encounter/Alternative Option
10 years		Encounter
11 years	MCV4, Tdap	Encounter
12 years		Encounter
13 years		Encounter
14 years		Encounter
15 years		Encounter
16 years	MCV4, MenB (optional 2 doses one month apart)	Encounter
17 years		Encounter
18 years		Encounter
19 years		Encounter
20 years		Encounter
21 years	Tdap booster every 10 years	Encounter

Definitions

• Encounter: Well-child visit face-to-face with a healthcare provider and care team.
• Encounter Optional: Provider, care team member and parent decide together at time of 3-5 days well-visit whether the newborn needs a visit at 2 or 4 weeks of age.
• Alternative Option: Health promotion visit can be a face-to-face encounter with a healthcare team member (for example, a nurse well-visit), or an alternative non-face-to-face visit as recommended by the healthcare team (for example, a developmental screening only at 18 months).

Abbreviations

• DTaP: Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular Pertussis vaccine (pediatric form)
• DTaP-IPV: Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular Pertussis vaccine-Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine (Quadracel)
• DTaP-IPV/Hib: Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular Pertussis vaccine-Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine/Haemophilus influenzae Type B vaccine (Pentacel)
• DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB: Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis-Inactivated Poliovirus-Haemophilus influenzae type B-Hepatitis B vaccine (Vaxelis)
• HepA: Hepatitis A vaccine (minimum spacing 6 months between doses)
• HepB: Hepatitis B vaccine
• HPV: Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (2 doses 6 months apart for immunocompetent patients who get the first dose before 15 years of age; otherwise 3 doses at 0, 2 and 6 months)
• IPV: Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine
• MCV4: Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine (quadrivalent)
• *MenB: Meningococcal B vaccine (optional) 16 to 23 years of age; (Bexsero - 2 doses at least 1 month apart)
• MMR: Measles-Mumps-Rubella vaccine
• MMRV: Measles-Mumps-Rubella-Varicella vaccine (give MMR and VAR instead if before age 4 or after age 12 years)
• PCV: Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine
• RV5: Rotavirus (pentavalent) vaccine (first dose no later than 14 weeks, 6 days of age and last dose no later than 8 months, 0 days of age).
• Tdap: Tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine (adolescent-adult form)
• VAR: Varicella zoster vaccine (chicken pox)