Today at RCAM

RCAM is on a typical weekend schedule Our RCAM On Call Pediatric Provider will see patients in our Duraleigh Office on Saturday and Sunday. There are no ‘walk-ins’ - all visits are by appointment only - if you have a newborn or a sick child and need to be seen in our office on Saturday or Sunday, keep reading. When developmentally appropriate, patients 3 years and up and their family are asked to wear a mask if having any of the following symptoms: fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, or congestion. Like a typical weekend, we will be having our typical Newborn Clinic and Sick Child Clinic. Saturday and Sunday Duraleigh office: OPEN for weekend hours Brier Creek office: closed All calls before 9:00 AM and after 10:00 AM will go to our after hours phone nurse triage service. From 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM, all calls will go directly to our office. Two ways to make an appointment: Call for an appointment: All calls before 9:00 AM and after 10:00 AM will go to our after hours phone nurse triage service. That is the only time you can call and make an appointment on a weekend. Online scheduling: Appointments open up for online scheduling on the day of the appointment (Saturday appointments are opened up on Saturday, Sunday appointment on Sunday). Here is the link where you can schedule an online appointment . After 10:00 AM, calls will go directly to our after hours phone nurse triage service. The On Call Pediatrician will see patients in our office from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. On Call Saturday and seeing patients in our Duraleigh office: Rick Gessner, MD, MD and Michael Goley, CPNP On Call Sunday and seeing patients in our Duraleigh office: Rick Gessner, MD If you have a Newborn or a Sick Child who needs Assessment Weekend appointments are prioritized for for newborns and sick children. Well care is scheduled for weekday appointments. From 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM, all calls will go directly to our office. Our Saturday and Sunday clinics will be scheduled from those calls. If you think your child may need to be seen in our office, call as soon after 9:00 AM as you can because we have limited appointments and those times tend to get scheduled quickly. Online scheduling for the weekends is for newborns and sick children for same day appointments only. After Hours Calls In general, all after hours calls - calls received outside of regular business hours - are handled by our after hours phone nurse triage service. This service is for urgent questions about a newborn or a sick child only. This service is backed up by our On-Call Pediatrician.

It is a typical weekday at RCAM Flu, RSV Antibody, and COVID Vaccine information for the Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 seasons updated here Office hours for Friday: 8: 00 AM to 12:30 PM - Open for our morning session at both Duraleigh and Brier Creek offices 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM - Front Office catchup break (we are unable to take calls during that time) 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM - Open for our afternoon session at both Duraleigh and Brier Creek offices If you need to reach our office... We want you to get in touch with us. At 8:00 AM we begin taking phone calls directly from our office . You may call our office directly You may send a non-urgent message through our Patient Portal (our portal is a convenient way to send and receive messages to and from our office - let us know if you are interested) If you have a medical form for school, camp, athletics, or other and your child has had a well visit / physical in the last year , we can take care of that - you may send it to the following email: forms@raleighchildren.com From 5:00 PM until tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 9:00 AM , phone calls go directly to our Nurse Phone Triage service. If you have a sick child... We want to help. Nurse phone triage is available 24 hours a day for RCAM families who call our general office phone number (919-781-7490). During office hours , our RCAM phone nurse is available for general questions. For urgent concerns that occur after hours and can't wait until our office opens, our after hours phone nurse triage is available at that same number. The patient portal is another way to ask a question, but please don't use the portal for an urgent, time-sensitive message . There are resources for general pediatric medical questions available on our website: medication dosages , symptom checker , and medical library . You can always call and schedule an appointment. We have same-day, open appointment times available everyday when we open our office each morning . Online scheduling is available . We continue to tweak this evolving option that offers a variety of appointment types. If you have a newborn... Congratulations! We enjoy helping our families who are in that gloriously challenging time of life. Call to see one of providers for your newborn follow-up appointment . I f you would like to meet with our lactation consultan t, mention that when you make your appointment. Here is more information about our lactation services . Today's Line Up:

It is a typical weekday at RCAM Flu, RSV Antibody, and COVID Vaccine information for the Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 seasons updated here Office hours for Thursday: 8: 00 AM to 12:30 PM - Open for our morning session at both Duraleigh and Brier Creek offices 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM - Front Office catchup break (we are unable to take calls during that time) 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM - Open for our afternoon session at both Duraleigh and Brier Creek offices If you need to reach our office... We want you to get in touch with us. At 8:00 AM we begin taking phone calls directly from our office . You may call our office directly You may send a non-urgent message through our Patient Portal (our portal is a convenient way to send and receive messages to and from our office - let us know if you are interested) If you have a medical form for school, camp, athletics, or other and your child has had a well visit / physical in the last year , we can take care of that - you may send it to the following email: forms@raleighchildren.com From 5:00 PM until tomorrow (Friday) morning at 8:00 AM , phone calls go directly to our Nurse Phone Triage service. If you have a sick child... We want to help. Nurse phone triage is available 24 hours a day for RCAM families who call our general office phone number (919-781-7490). During office hours , our RCAM phone nurse is available for general questions. For urgent concerns that occur after hours and can't wait until our office opens, our after hours phone nurse triage is available at that same number. The patient portal is another way to ask a question, but please don't use the portal for an urgent, time-sensitive message . There are resources for general pediatric medical questions available on our website: medication dosages , symptom checker , and medical library . You can always call and schedule an appointment. We have same-day, open appointment times available everyday when we open our office each morning . Online scheduling is available . We continue to tweak this evolving option that offers a variety of appointment types. If you have a newborn... Congratulations! We enjoy helping our families who are in that gloriously challenging time of life. Call to see one of providers for your newborn follow-up appointment . I f you would like to meet with our lactation consultan t, mention that when you make your appointment. Here is more information about our lactation services . Today's Line Up:

It is a typical weekday at RCAM Flu, RSV Antibody, and COVID Vaccine information for the Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 seasons updated here Office hours for Wednesday: 8: 00 AM to 12:30 PM - Open for our morning session at both Duraleigh and Brier Creek offices 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM - Front Office catchup break (we are unable to take calls during that time) 1:30 PM to 5:00 PM - Open for our afternoon session at both Duraleigh and Brier Creek offices If you need to reach our office... We want you to get in touch with us. At 8:00 AM we begin taking phone calls directly from our office . You may call our office directly You may send a non-urgent message through our Patient Portal (our portal is a convenient way to send and receive messages to and from our office - let us know if you are interested) If you have a medical form for school, camp, athletics, or other and your child has had a well visit / physical in the last year , we can take care of that - you may send it to the following email: forms@raleighchildren.com From 5:00 PM until tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 8:00 AM , phone calls go directly to our Nurse Phone Triage service. If you have a sick child... We want to help. Nurse phone triage is available 24 hours a day for RCAM families who call our general office phone number (919-781-7490). During office hours , our RCAM phone nurse is available for general questions. For urgent concerns that occur after hours and can't wait until our office opens, our after hours phone nurse triage is available at that same number. The patient portal is another way to ask a question, but please don't use the portal for an urgent, time-sensitive message . There are resources for general pediatric medical questions available on our website: medication dosages , symptom checker , and medical library . You can always call and schedule an appointment. We have same-day, open appointment times available everyday when we open our office each morning . Online scheduling is available. We continue to tweak this evolving option that offers a variety of appointment types. If you have a newborn... Congratulations! We enjoy helping our families who are in that gloriously challenging time of life. Call to see one of providers for your newborn follow-up appointment . I f you would like to meet with our lactation consultan t, mention that when you make your appointment. Here is more information about our lactation services . Today's Line Up:

Updated 10/03/2025

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"Dr. Bob" Still a Big Part of Who We Try To Be at RCAM

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February 25, 2020 -This Friday, February 28, 2020 will mark the end of a grand era at Ralei gh Children & Adolescents Medicine. After 42 years, RCAM office manager Debbie Maness is retiring to become the ultimate grandmother. She Started as a Nurse; She Became our Office Manager Debbie came to us as a nurse in 1978 from the Rex Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. At that time, our office was known as “Fleming, Edwards, and Goldman” – our three founding pediatricians who could also be known as the “Mount Rushmore of RCAM”. After working at RCAM for about 10 years as a nurse, Dr. Fleming approached her about taking on a then newly created position: office manager. I am sure that when she agreed to take that position, she could not have possibly imagined the volume of challenges that would come her way. There was always something new, and that new charge always fell in some form on the office manager. Debbie successfully led RCAM over 4 decades as the practice of medicine changed dramatically. Throughout that time, she kept us on task, and she kept a good spirit. “Debbie Maness Week” RCAM therefore declares February 24 through 28 to be “Debbie Maness Week” and for it to be a time to celebrate Debbie’s 42 years of dedication, skill, and attitude. 1-Monday, February 24th – “Wear Your College Allegiance Day” Debbie loves the N.C. State Wolfpack – for better and for worse. She always pulls for her team, and-on Monday-we wore our college allegiance to work in her honor.