During NIAM, Smyrna Pediatrics encourages you to talk with our healthcare professionals to ensure that your child is up-to-date on recommended vaccines to protect your family from serious diseases.
Our providers are on-call for any urgent after-hours needs. Please call the on-call provider before going to the emergency room.
**Effective 8/23/21 - Due to the current COVID surge, it is NECESSARY for you to confirm your appointment by text or phone. If you are not confirmed by the day of your visit, we will cancel your appointment in order to accommodate the overwhelming number of sick patients who need to be seen. Thank you for your cooperation, understanding, and patience.
Rapid testing for COVID-19 is now available.
Flu vaccines are now available in our office. Call 615.625.7780 to schedule yours today!
We have staff members who speak Spanish
Smyrna Pediatrics is currently utilizing a curbside check-in protocol in order to engage in safe social distancing. Visit our blog for more details.
Led by Rachel Ricafort, MD, FAAP, the team at Smyrna Pediatrics provides comprehensive pediatric medicine to infants, children, and adolescents living in Rutherford County and the surrounding area of Smyrna.
At Smyrna Pediatrics, Dr. Ricafort and the team provide high-quality, personalized care to help all of their patients feel like family. The waiting room is large and welcoming and each of the examination rooms is child-friendly, which helps ease the anxiety of a medical visit.
Our office specializes in the care of children. Each specialist is board certified and maintains continuing education in their specialty in order to provide an integrative, traditional approach to patient care.
Dr. Ricafort dedicates time to spend with each child and works to provide the best medical care possible. The office atmosphere at Smyrna Pediatrics is calming and open, and our team answers questions thoughtfully, helping parents raise healthy, active, and confident children. Several of the office staff members are also fluent in Spanish.
The team offers a full suite of pediatric services, including diagnosing and treating asthma, general pediatrics, immunizations, newborn care, physicals, sick visits, treatment of urgent minor injuries, and well-child checkups. We also offer same-day and next-day appointments for sick visits in order to provide a better environment of care than an urgent care or emergency room facility.
At Smyrna Pediatrics, patients also have the option to work with certified nurse practitioners, as well as physician assistants. These professionals offer late hours Monday and Wednesday evenings until 7pm Central Standard Time.
Parents and children can also access weekend hours. Smyrna Pediatrics opens on Saturdays between 8am and 11am for well and sick children visits. Saturday hours are offered during the months of September to February. The office accepts most insurance plans.
Partner with the team at Smyrna Pediatrics by calling the office or clicking the online booking tool today.
Please call the office if you have any questions
Dr. Ricafort has been recognized as the Best Pediatrician by Nashville Scene and the Ruthies awards
During NIAM, Smyrna Pediatrics encourages you to talk with our healthcare professionals to ensure that your child is up-to-date on recommended vaccines to protect your family from serious diseases.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that everyone over 2 years old should wear a mask in school in order to reduce the transmission of coronavirus and protect those who aren't vaccinated. In this blog post, some common mask myths are addressed.
Information re: COVID-19 practices from our colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).