UNM Pediatric Urgent Care

Apr 2023

Generally, I have liked the care my 2.5 year old has gotten up to this point with her pediatrician. We came in to Pediatric Urgent Care concerned about a UTI 2 weeks prior to Christmas. In the 2 weeks that followed, there were several errors that led us to an 8 hour ER visit on Christmas which could have been avoided. We should been informed 2 or 3 days earlier with the lab results after they were reviewed and were not. I could see that they had been reviewed in MyChart. Urgent Care should have called us back/returned our voicemail when we called on that Thursday. We then called UNM’s nurse advice line on Friday while daughter had gotten worse and got the wrong information...read full review

Mar 2023

Absolutely the best urgent care for children in Albuquerque. The wait can be long, but the doctors are very thorough and you can rest assured that your child's health is in excellent hands here. Our children have been misdiagnosed at other pediatric care urgent care clinics, which is really frustrating to have their illness continue with the wrong diagnosis. UNM takes longer because they do an excellent job making sure they give the best care for each child.

May 2021

Our son was treated here after the initial evaluation was confirmed of a broken femur. The hospital had a team in and providing a treatment plan rather quickly. They explained that due to the severity of the break, they would have to conduct surgery to reconnect the bone. They gave two options beginning with the hope of less invasive, flexi-nails, which would provide the needed implant to allow healing but less likely to impact the long term growth of the femur. The second option provided was not as child growth friendly, plates and screws. The team advised they would have to wait on conducting the surgery until morning, with an outlook to release the following evening....read full review