The staff were nice, just incompetent. Having recently moved to Las Vegas, my wife and I thought that a pediatric clinic associated with a University would be a good place to take our child for a checkup. We were wrong and here's why:
1.) We scheduled our appointment for 3:20. They later asked us to be there by 2:50. We showed up at 2:40 and waited until 4:00 to be seen.
2). The nurse who weighed and checked the height of our child didn't do it correctly. Aside from the fact that our child was weighed in a glorified closet, his clothes and shoes weren't removed to attain a proper weight / height. The nurse also used an adult height and weight scale though our child is too young for such a scale.
3). We were seen by a graduate student instead of a doctor, and were unsatisfied with his diagnosis and care. He lacked many tricks to calm children down that more experienced pediatricians have. He also lacked the foresight to ask us for help (we did jump in). Consequently, I have reason to believe that he didn't properly check our child's ears, etc. We came in for a wellness check to discuss our childs speech (which is a tad behind) and for a checkup which our previous pediatrician suggested. There is absolutely nothing wrong with our child's hearing, yet the doctor insisted we get a second appointment with an audiologist when we were much more interested in talking to a speech therapist. When he left the room, we left the appointment early due to our frustration.
4). They treated the appointment like an 18 month checkup (they state this) though my child is closer to 24 months. We already had an 18 month checkup with our previous pediatrician (who told us to we ought to come back in for a 22 month checkup - which is why we were there). What that means is that we paid for something that our child had already been seen for.
5). We were quoted one price over the phone, charged another price at the counter, and billed a third price later by mail. Thankfully, after calling billing and complaining about our terrible experience, the final tally was substantially reduced.
As I mentioned above, the staff were very pleasant, including our nurse and the doctor we visited. However, I wouldn't recommend UNLV Pediatrics to my worst enemy given our service experience.