What Is Mobile Urgent Care for Kids?
A Parent Guide to a New Kind of Pediatric Care
Most parents in Colorado Springs are familiar with traditional clinics and urgent care centers. What many have not experienced is mobile urgent care. This type of care brings a pediatric-trained provider to your door, reducing stress, saving time, and helping children feel more comfortable during illness.
Little Big Care is the only pediatric-specific mobile urgent care in Colorado Springs. We created this guide to answer the questions families often ask when they first learn about this type of service.
The Simple Definition: Mobile Urgent Care Comes to You
Mobile urgent care provides medical evaluation and treatment where you need it - at your home, hotel, office, or vacation rental. Instead of traveling to a clinic, waiting in a lobby, or trying to keep a sick child calm in public, families stay in a familiar environment while the pediatrician travels to them.
For many parents, it feels like a modern version of a house call but with the tools, testing, treatments and expertise of an urgent care clinic.
What Mobile Urgent Care Treats
Mobile urgent care is designed for non-emergency medical needs that require timely attention.
Little Big Care treats many of the same conditions as a traditional urgent care, including:
Fever
Ear infections
Sore throat and strep throat
RSV, bronchiolitis, wheezing, flu, and other winter respiratory illnesses
Pink eye
Rashes and skin irritation
Vomiting and diarrhea
Minor injuries such as sprains or cuts
Cold and cough symptoms
Dehydration concerns
Parents often choose mobile care when they want a same-day evaluation without waiting rooms, unexpected charges, or exposure to other sick children.
What Happens During a Mobile Visit
A visit with Little Big Care looks simple, but behind the scenes, it is a highly coordinated pediatric evaluation. During your child’s appointment, our provider will:
Review symptoms and medical history, listening to your concerns
Perform a gentle but thorough pediatric exam
Check breathing and hydration
Run rapid tests for flu, strep, COVID, or urine when needed
Provide treatment or prescriptions when appropriate
Explain what parents should do & monitor for
Send a summary to your pediatrician
The goal is to give families clarity, comfort, and a safe plan for the future.
Why Parents Prefer Mobile Urgent Care
Families in Colorado Springs choose mobile urgent care for several important reasons.
Children stay calm in familiar spaces
Kids usually relax more easily at home than in a busy clinic. This helps the provider gather better information and perform a complete, accurate exam, while parents have less stress.
No exposure to other illnesses
Waiting rooms can be difficult for children during the sick season, with more germ exposure. Mobile urgent care reduces that risk.
Convenience for busy families
Parents do not need to pack up multiple kids, find childcare, or drive across town and waste time in a waiting room.
Ideal for travelers and visiting family
Colorado Springs receives many visitors year-round. Mobile urgent care allows out of town families to get help quickly without navigating unfamiliar clinics.
Pediatric-specific care
Your child is seen by someone trained specifically in pediatric medicine. This is especially important for infants, toddlers, and children with unique health needs.
When Mobile Urgent Care Is the Right Choice
Mobile urgent care is ideal for symptoms that are concerning but not life-threatening.
Parents often schedule a visit when symptoms begin unexpectedly during evenings, weekends, travel, or school breaks. Little Big Care pediatric urgent care is also ideal for same-day visits when it’s difficult to get into your regular office, and allows for less disruption to life.
It is also helpful when a child is too uncomfortable to leave the house or when families want clear answers without long delays.
When to Choose the ER Instead
ER is more appropriate for severe injury, obvious broken bone or large wound, difficulty breathing, severe abdominal pain, immediate need for imaging or bloodwork, fever in a newborn, or psychiatric crisis.
If your child is having life-threatening symptoms, call 911.
Mobile Urgent Care in Colorado Springs Can Make Illness Easier
Mobile pediatric care is still new for many families, but once parents try it, they often prefer it.
Little Big Care provides:
Pediatric-trained providers
Same-day availability
Flat and transparent pricing
Strep, flu, COVID, and urine testing included
Care where you need it, at your home, hotel, office, or rental
A calm and child-friendly experience, where parents are heard and visits are unrushed
If your child is sick today and you are unsure what to do, Book a Visit or call Little Big Care at (719) 435-9979. We will help you make the safest and most confident choice for your family.