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• Forms & Registration
• How do I contact my doctor in an emergency?
• Privacy Policy
• Support Groups

If you have an HMO, you must:

1. Get a referral from your primary care physician before you call to make an appointment.
2. Make sure that your referral has not expired. Many are good for only 30 days, so check yours before you come to your appointment. If your referral has expired, call your primary care physician and explain your situation. In most cases, your primary care physician will provide a new or extended referral.
3. Bring the referral with you to the appointment. If you do not have a referral, or if the referral you have is expired, your HMO will not pay for your appointment.
4. If you have fee-for-service insurance or a PPO, you do not need a physician's referral to make an appointment.

How do I make an appointment?
For information about appointments or insurance requirements, please call the office of the physician you wish to visit.

Click here for contact numbers and directions

Forms and Registration

FOR PATIENTS OF THE HEARING AND BALANCE CENTER

• Patient General History
• Patient Hearing and Balance History
• Dizziness Handicap Inventory
• Tinnitus Handicap Inventory
• Audiology History
• Pediatric Intake
• Pediatric Patient Brocure
• Sleep Tape Instructions
• Sleep Study Instructions

How do I contact my doctor in an emergency?

In an emergency you may need to call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.

You may reach your doctor’s office during the weekday between 8AM and 5PM at his or her regular office number.

Hofheimer Hall (Drs. Karakla, Wadsworth, Sinacori) 757.446.5934
DePaul Hearing and Balance Center (Drs. Strasnick and Han) 757.889.6670
Virginia Beach Office (Drs. Moody Antonio and Derkay) 757-422-9300
CHKD Offices (Drs. Derkay, Darrow, Sinacori, Moody Antonio and Han) 757.668-9327

After regular office hours and on weekends call 757.889.6670 to reach the answering service and the doctor on call.

Privacy policy

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Support Groups

Dizzy Doers –Balance Retraining and Vestibular Exercise Support Group. BRAVE Program, 757-889-5201. Meets on the second Saturday of odd-numbered months (January, March, May, July, September, and November.

Tidewater Lost Chord Club - Patient support group dedicated to assisting laryngectomees, their families and the medical community in The Tidewater Area since 1956. A laryngectomee is a person who, usually, because of cancer, has had the larynx (voice box) surgically removed. Weekly meeting: Monday at 1 pm. at Tidewater Lost Cord Club, 4416 Expressway Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23452. (757) 493-7940. Point of contact: Helen Grathwohl

Smoking Cessation Resource Guide in The Tidewater Area may be obtained by contacting Sentara Community Health and Prevention Office at 1-800-736-8272 or http://www.sentara.com/community.