Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine

Teen Health Center

A Team Approach to Teen Health

The Teen Health Center offers a well-coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of medical, social, emotional, sexual, educational, and nutritional concerns of adolescents and young adults. The center cares for patients 12 through 21 years and will also see children younger than 12 if they have started puberty or if they have gender identity concerns. Individualized care is provided to adolescents and their families by a team of health professionals representing medicine, nursing, social work, psychology, and nutrition.

Primary Care

All teens need to have a primary care provider who takes care of annual or sports physicals, helps out if the teen gets an acute illness, makes sure that immunizations are up to date, and provides health promotion and support to the teen and family regarding the normal developmental milestones of adolescence.

As part of our primary care services, we cater to individuals graduating from the pediatric system to the adult system, as well as services to support teenagers and young adults who have intellectual or physical disabilities.

Primary healthcare services are available at the Cincinnati Children’s Burnet Campus and in the community through our Mobile Care Center.

Teen Health at the Mobile Care Center

The Cincinnati Children’s Mobile Care Center is an innovative offering that travels to both local and regional communities to help bring some of our specialized services closer to families who need them. Teen Health Center providers on the Mobile Care Center are experienced in caring for a broad spectrum of teen health issues, as well as primary care concerns. Patients between the ages of 12 - 21 are eligible for care and visits will be billed and covered the same as an office visit.

Conditions that our team can address in the mobile care clinic include:

• Regular checkups
• Asthma
• Acne
• Mood disorders
• Menstrual concerns
• Contraception
• Bloodwork
• Strep/flu screen
• Sports physicals
• Work permits
• Vaccines

The Teen Health Mobile Care Center is available at:

North College Hill (at North College Hill Middle School)
Parking area behind school near the football field
8801 Cheviot Road, Cincinnati, OH45251
Second Wednesday of every month, 9 am – 3 pm

Beginning in September 2026, the Teen Health Mobile Care Center will be located in Colerain Township and available at:

Colerain High School
1624 Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, OH 45239
For visits in September and November

Northwest High School
10761 Pippin Road, Cincinnati, OH 45231
For visits in October and December

Please contact us for appointments or questions about your care.

Learn more about the Mobile Care Center's Services and Locations.

Adolescent Mental and Behavioral Health Care

Adolescent Mental and Behavioral Health Care services are provided for adolescents who receive healthcare at the Teen Health Center. Integrated psychologists and social workers provide mental and behavioral health assessments and treatment.

If your teenager is having a hard time learning in school, Teen Health Center providers can help to determine the cause of school performance problems. The first goal is to make sure there are not any health-related problems that are interfering with the teen’s ability to learn. Health-related problems include substance use, depression, family conflicts and somatic complaints such as headaches, stomach aches, chest pain and fatigue. Once these issues are better understood, the healthcare team might refer the teenager for a comprehensive educational evaluation. Teenagers may also be referred to a psychologist or an educational specialist at Cincinnati Children’s or in the community for cognitive and academic achievement testing. These tests will assist in determining if the teenager has a learning disability or ADHD or global learning difficulties that interfere with academic performance.

Contact and Referrals

New patients can contact the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine online or by phone to schedule an appointment with the Teen Health Center. You will be asked to provide basic demographic and insurance information.

If a community healthcare provider refers your teenager to the Teen Health Center, an authorization from the teen’s health insurance may be needed. The referring healthcare provider most often requests that authorization from the health insurance.