Vista Village Pediatrics

Dr. Amani it’s one of the best pediatrician in north county. Just took my son Braxson for his circumcision and since that day I wanted him to be his doctor as well for all my kids .
Very professional and well educated you can tell he has a passion for his job.
The staff is very helpful and very friendly.
Totally recommend this Dr. for your kids.

We have great experiences with Dr. Amani and his staff.
Dr. Amani has a great bedside manner. Always calm and collect, he is also very proper using the form of respect to address the person as Ms, Mr, Ma’am or Sir. You could ask questions and questions and he will answer all of them (I even listed them down.)
There may be times that we do wait 30 or even 1 hour to be seen but it’s not all the time, depends on how busy it can get, but that’s any Drs office.
I have called Dr Amani after hours, took a few hours to get a call back but they do call back (he does has his own family and life.) Even if he is out to the hospital the Nurse Practitioner calls back to answer my questions.
They even take kids that don’t have insurances and only charge $ 40. Bucks for a check up.
Dr. Amani also does circumcision for boys if the hospitals don’t do them (since it’s considered cosmetic surgery now.)
We have a great experience with this office it works well for our family.

Had a great experience with Dr Amani today. No bullshit, just a good Pediatrician.
It was my first visit taking my 4 month old daughter. The ladies at the front desk were nice and took care of all my paperwork with my MediCal HMO. Yes, the wait was long, but it was worth it. Dr Amani was very good at connecting with me and my baby. He actually took the time to talk to me and answered all my questions about my baby’s health. He didn’t just stare at the computer screen the whole time too. He actually made eye contact. I felt I could trust him — which it so important!
And it’s covered in my insurance! Oh, and it’s less than a mile away from my home.
So grateful!

I began seeing Dr. Amani with my 6 year old days after he was born. At the time we were receiving medi-​cal; to be able to see a private physician rather than sit for hours at a crowded clinic felt like luxury. I now have private insurance but continue to see Dr. Amani because he is so thorough and genuinely cares for all of his patients. They also have the option of contacting Dr. Amani for emergency consults by phone, and sadly with my oldest son’s severe asthma I’ve had to use it, he has called us back on weekends, holidays and sometimes in the wee hours of the night because well… you just don’t gamble with a kids ability to breathe.
I cant even begin to express the trust and confidence my family has in this office, sometimes the phone lines are a bit busy, but it’s worth it to keep calling and realistically a 30 minute wait at a physicians office is pretty standard especially knowing the attentiveness of the visit.
Dr Amani has been so proactive in teaching us how to manage my son’s asthma, recognizing the early signs of worsening symptoms, and knowing what triggers it. Because of this we have avoided the ER and hospitalizations many times. My family just loves all the people who make this office available.

Anytime my child is sick I have to take the entire day off or get the last appt of the day & we still wait 30mins in the waiting room and an hour in the check up room. They dont take in consideration anybodys time. The staff is the worse EVER! They’re always talking & anytime I call the phones are turned off because it goes to voicemail. Its so inconvenient. They must think people don’t work and can answer their phone calls on their time. I dont recommend it to anyone! I made the mistake of staying with that office for over a year.

My daughter has only been a patient here for a couple of months, and we will not be returning after today.
Every time we’ve scheduled an appointment we’ve been made to wait in excess of 30 minutes to even be seen by a nurse. We live about 3 minutes away, so I’ve called before heading over to see if we’d be seen on time, or if I should wait to come in. I understand that this can happen at any doctors office, but does it usually happen every time? And after I’ve called to confirm that I’d be seen on time?
A few weeks ago my daughter suddenly stopped eating well and I called in to see if I should bring her in. They said they’d have a nurse call me back that same day, but I never received a call. I had to call and follow up with them the next day.
This week my daughter was sick and we made an appointment for her to be seen a couple of days ago. I give them credit for seeing us on short notice, but again, my husband waited for 30+ minutes to be seen even with an appointment.
He took her in today for a followup. After waiting with our sick, naked baby in a freezing cold exam room for 30 minutes, he warned the front desk that he’d be leaving in 2 minutes if she wasn’t seen. 10 minutes later she still hadn’t been seen and he informed the front desk that he would not be returning, as they obviously cared more about stacking appointments than caring for our daughter.
We never actually met Dr. Amani. The nurse we saw 3 visits ago was great! But unfortunately this office is not a good fit for my family.

You can’t make everyone happy and more people then not are almost impossible to please and over react over real petty stuff. This doctors office is GREAT, the staff is GREAT, the building is GREAT, there isn’t a thing to complain about. Does the office run behind «sometimes»?? Of course… Is there such thing as a doc office that doesn’t? And these complaints about people seeing a nurse not the doc, ITS NOT ANYTHING NEW THAT NURSES DO ALL THE WORK AND THE DOC DOES THE LEAST, I mean come on now people… This is also a doc who wont throw meds at your kid to easily & quickly to get you out of the way or to mask the issue. A doc who gives meds fast is a lazy doc. I am EXTREMELY picky as I have had more medical issues on my own then most will ever go through in a life time, and I can say with full confidence this office is GREAT