Brave Care offers safe COVID-19 testing for kids and families, with results in about 15 minutes.

Visits are available same day, and can be booked in advance.  Most insurance is accepted.

Brave Care provides high-quality, affordable care in modern, clean, kid-friendly spaces. With our exceptional Care Team, 24/7 nurse line, remote care guidance, and easy-to-use tools, families get the care they deserve whenever they need it.

Exceptional pediatric care  your little ones deserve.

Same-day appointments, open  nights and weekends.

A nurturing Care Team of expert pediatric medical professionals.

A seamless, modern experience— online and offline.

Seriously amazing! They are so good with kids and even care about the parents who come in. We have been many times from fever, ear infections, flu shot. It’s great to have a place nearby that you can walk-in in a moments notice to ease your mom nerves or get care for your children! xoxo

Beyond easy to make an appointment and to be seen when you want to. The office is almost relaxing, not medical/hospital feeling at all. Staff is wonderful as well!

“such great care I quit my job and joined”

My 4yo daughter had a bad cut on her face and needed stitches. Despite both of us being a bit scared and in pain…  we got such great care I quit my job and joined as the CEO to make sure every kid/parent has the chance to experience what an amazing care experience should be like.

“from start to finish was easy peasy”

Everything from start to finish was easy peasy. Very happy with our choice to take our daughter to Brave Care. The entire team was great! Thank you!

We know how busy a parent’s life is, so we make it easy & simple to get excellent pediatric care 7 days a week...  because you can’t take a day off,  neither will we.

We provide thorough, exceptional care that is better than the Emergency Room without the scary experience for kids.  On-site: X-Rays, Pharmacy, Rapid Testing, and more.

The ER will cost 10x more than a visit with us... 

We know how busy a parent’s life is, so we make it easy & simple to get excellent pediatric care 7 days a week... because you can’t take a day off, neither will we.

Never worry alone.  
We’re here 24hrs a day.

Just answer a few questions and we can help you determine if a condition should be treated at home or if you need a visit with our expert care team.

Need help calculating the right dosage for your child?  Our smart chart will help you find the right dose for common over the counter medications.

Our expert pediatric nurses are here whenever you need them. They can help you understand when to seek medical care for your child, provide basic medical advice, and direct you to the best place for your child to get care.

Not sure what’s going on with your little one?

Finding answers shouldn’t be hard.  
We make it easy.

Ready to join us for primary care?
Download the app to get started.

Modern primary and urgent care that combines a comfortable environment for your little ones with world-class care options.

Excellent pediatric primary and urgent care.  From our clinics to your home—we care everywhere.

Our goal at Brave Care is to help every child reach their full potential. Our amazing clinic staff work day in and day out to provide the best care experience for our Brave Care families with patience, sound judgement, and incredible kindness. I'm a member of our product team, comprised of product managers, designers, researchers, and engineers who are all working to support our clinic team. We're responsible for developing new features and tools for our staff, patients, and their families.

No matter what team they sit on, each Brave Care employee is charged with living up to our values, some of which include "deeply empathize," "make every interaction count," and "advocate for others." And where the product team is concerned, a key way to live up to those values is to think about making products as inclusive and accessible as we can.

Fortunately, it's no longer a controversial statement to say that products should be built with accessibility in mind as an initial requirement and not as an afterthought. There are a number of helpful people and organizations who have focused on creating open source guides and sharing resources to meet any person working on a digital product (be it a product manager, designer, or engineer) where they are on the journey to creating accessible products. At the bottom of this post, I've included a collection of resources that I've found helpful.

At Brave Care, we’ve utilized many of those resources to ensure that accessibility remains top-of-mind. Here are a few recent examples:

1. Cindy, our Senior Manager of Brand, introduced new, higher contrast colors to our design system that meet the 4.5:1 ratio as required by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Here’s what Cindy had to say about the process:

“Designing a brand for kids and families, we wanted a colorful brand language that was attention-grabbing and loved by both our primary audiences: the kiddos we serve and their caregivers. We went with a vibrant and sophisticated palette of bright accent colors and their pastel counterparts. After applying the colors to digital design (web and products), we quickly realized we needed to reevaluate the bright teal we’d selected for our buttons to be accessible for populations with vision impairments. 

We set out to meet, or exceed WCAG 2.0 AA color contrast levels, which means color contrast needs to be a minimum of 4.5:1 ratio. Our teal button with white text was 2.44:1, far below the minimum (womp, womp). After reevaluating, we created a UI-specific teal color that now exceeds the minimum at 4.72:1. We also introduced a darker secondary color for use on pastel-colored backgrounds.

We aim to serve any family who needs care for their kiddos. That means our designs and colors should be accessible to ALL.”

2. As part of our design system implementation efforts, Ryan, our Senior Software Engineer, made sure that the text component in our check-in app was built with internationalization in mind. In this context, internationalization means a way of writing software that can be adapted to various languages and regions without requiring major engineering changes. All of the text used in the check-in app is currently translated into two languages (English and Spanish). At the beginning of every visit, each family has the opportunity to choose their preferred language before filling out the questions listed in the check-in app. We also offer translation services available for people who’d prefer another language. In the future, we’ll be adding support for more languages—and because the internationalization framework is already in place, our engineering team won’t have to be heavily involved once we translate the text.

3. We seek to use inclusive language in our check-in app and online scheduling forms. For example, we know each family has a unique composition, so we use the term “caregiver” to describe an individual who’s accompanying a patient to an appointment. From there, they’re given an opportunity to explain their relationship to the patient, again using inclusive language. Similarly, we know that it can be uncomfortable, especially for nonbinary and trans individuals, to be faced with another form that asks for their sex assigned at birth. We collect that information for insurance purposes, so we note that in the form to explain why it’s a required field. For similar reasons, we also ask for the name a patient goes by, and their pronouns with a dropdown that includes an option for a free form text field.

4. Noah, our Head of Product & Design, was tasked with coding new HTML email templates and made sure to research accessibility standards for that medium. It’s a challenge to get emails to both look consistent and be accessible in all sorts of different email clients. For example, the way the iPhone Mail app renders an email is not the same as the way Microsoft Office on a Windows desktop does. And usually there’s an influx of tables required to make layouts consistent across the wide variety of ways people read email. Many of these texts do not contain content and instead are required for structure, so it’s important to instruct screen readers to skip over them. We include images in our emails, so it was necessary to provide alternative text that describes the imagery so context is not lost for people using a screen reader or for those who have images turned off as a system preference.

There’s always more improvements we can make to ensure we’re building accessible products. Here’s an outline of what we’re aiming to accomplish, and if you have any suggestions, please reach out to our Product Team at: design+product@bravecare.com.

Write and publish an accessibility statement.

Ensure each new design system component meets accessibility guidelines and where possible, write unit tests to confirm.

Create a formalized checklist for each member of the product team, so that new features start with accessibility in mind and are audited as such.

Explore how automated testing can help catch common errors and implement it.

Share more resources with teammates and celebrate their wins.

Conduct user research across a wide audience, including people with cognitive disabilities and who use assistive devices.

The A11Y Project (a11y stands for accessibility) 

No mouse days and Marcy Sutton's course on front-end masters 

Animations as a progressive enhancement 

The most useful accessibility testing tools and techniques 

Brave Care blog post: Advocating for accessibility.

Fortunately, it's no longer a controversial statement to say that products should be built with accessibility in mind as an initial requirement—and not as an afterthought. 

How we’re creating inclusive and accessible products for ALL families

I’m not one to brag, but dang does my team deserve recognition for all that they’ve done in the past year. I am incredibly proud of our team and how everyone maintained their high quality of work, professionalism, care and joy in such a no good awful year.  From our front line medical workers who are always there for our kids in hard times to the entire product & operations teams that build the tools driving the future of pediatric care... as much as I'm excited for the future, I'm deeply appreciative of who we are today.

When COVID hit last year and we were all under the strictest shelter-in-place guidelines, we responded quickly to build digital tools to help parents get the help they needed from home. We launched Telehealth visits and got licensed in 14 states… and we were one of, or if not THE, first of any company to release an online COVID symptom checker… we launched ours March 2nd 2020. We also scaled our rapid COVID testing capabilities and have provided a comfortable place for thousands of kids to get their COVID tests.

In a year with a pandemic, a recession, riots, fires, ice storms... all that I've seen the team at Brave Care do leaves me humbled and impressed.

Learning the limits of telehealth in pediatrics

What we confirmed during the past year is that Telehealth is a very useful service to provide to parents who are concerned about their child’s health and want good information, but Telehealth can not replace an in-clinic visit in most pediatric care situations. Adults want/need very different healthcare solutions for themselves vs what they want for their kids. Most adults take a very reactive approach to their own health, basically only going in when there is a severe injury, otherwise choosing to suck it up and weather what’s ailing them.  I’m an example of this lax approach to my own care, vs the proactive way I take care of my kid’s health.

A lot of that attitude comes from how hard it is to really know how serious an injury or illness is with a child. I can tell you that I have an ache in my upper neck that radiates down behind my scapula… my 9 year old would just say her neck / head hurts. My 3 year old is just going to cry. Where Telehealth requires precision in language to explain exactly what is hurting where & when in order for a provider to remotely diagnose… in young children that is very hard, and in kids under 3 it’s basically impossible.  We’ve found that for a majority of our 10,000 urgent care visits, most had to have been treated in an in-person setting as we provided a shot, stitches, x-rays, lab tests, breathing treatments, etc. Things that there is nowhere near an in-home dongle taking care of it.

Expanding access to exceptional care for kids

We opened our second clinic last fall in Portland and are very proud of the kind of clinic we opened for families. We put the child and their caregiver at the center of our experience design, to build a clinic that is bright, comfortable, clean and modern.  We deliver the most complete pediatric care experience for parents which means that along with primary and urgent care, we also have x-ray, labs & pharmacy on-site… and our clinics are open 10am-10pm 365 days a year. Our expert pediatric nurses answer our phones 24/7 so you never have to worry alone. Since starting Brave Care 2 years ago, I have seen our medical staff 23 times not as their CEO, but as a worried parent with a sick or hurt child. I know first hand how powerful it can be to deliver care that is thoughtful, efficient and empathetic in those scary times. 

We also built a beautiful mobile clinic that serves as an extension to our physical clinics, reaching parents at home for their first newborn visits or for at-home vaccinations where a child is often most stressed out. Our mobile clinic is also capable of rapid COVID testing and has allowed us to bring flu-clinics to communities.

When I first partnered with Dr. Corey Fish, a lot of us had questions about how we scale our high ratings and glowing reviews as we added more providers and opened more clinics. I'm very proud that we've been able to hire nearly a dozen providers and still maintain the same quality as when he was our sole provider giving his thoughtful care to every patient.

The quality of care we provide is one of our highest priorities. We now have over 300 5-Star reviews and our NPS score across 800 parent surveys is at an incredible 92. Other companies brag about NPS scores in the 70s… We recently got a 7 score with the comment "They were very helpful thank you” … even our bad reviews are another company's good review. We maintained this quality of care going from 1,000 patient visits to 10,000 patients... I'm confident we can do it again going from 10k to 100k.

Health-tech that creates more personal care

Along with navigating our own startup thru a 100 year event, on the tech side we shipped the work of a couple other startups.  In order to deliver care in the most efficient way, while still delivering a personal experience, we have to build our technology stack from the ground up. From booking an appointment online, to checking in for your visit, how our medical staff tracks your child’s patient history, to our mobile app allowing you to chat with us at 2am… It shouldn’t matter if you come in for a scheduled well visit, an unplanned emergency on a weekend, or call our phone number late at night… we’re building a complete ecosystem so you always feel like we know you and your child… and you don’t have to reach the one person at a typical clinic who does.

Our iPad check-in removes the pencil and paper from our waiting rooms… you’ll have to find an eraser somewhere else for your kid to lose up their nose. In a lot of cases you can just walk right in and complete the check-in in one of our visit rooms, making it much easier to take care of your child vs waiting in the reception with other sick or injured kids. Now with our mobile app, a parent can check in one-handed right from their own phone.

Why would we invest in building our own full-stack tech experience for our clinics? Because we just shipped an improvement that will save us $500k this year and our patients hundreds of hours of their lives.

We had our product team sit with our clinic staff to see how long it takes to check a patient in… registering patient/caregiver info, gathering insurance & payment info, etc. Because the legacy way of checking patients in is innocent, we built a streamlined intake flow for our medical staff which shaves about 4min off every single visit. At 4min savings that’s 65k minutes this year. If we used that time to see more patients we could make an additional $500k in revenue… or use it to give our patients more time. This was one small improvement in a platform that we continue to build as the best experience for clinical staff to use.

We started with an idea for the most complete pediatric care experience and worked through incredibly difficult challenges over the past year, but we’ve validated our assumptions about how we scale incredible high quality of care across multiple clinics, leveraging great technology to create the most efficient and delightful tools for our medical staff and the parents of our patients.

Now I’m very excited to kick off our national expansion in pursuit of our goal to be the national partner for parents and their child’s health. Our mission is to help every child reach their potential, and good health is at the foundation of them being able to do that. We’re not building concierge medicine for affluent families… we’re delivering the same high quality, personal touch and access to any family because a child deserves the best care regardless of their parent's financial resources.

This year we're expanding our Portland, OR home market with a 3rd clinic out in Beaverton near the Nike headquarters, opening multiple clinics in Austin, TX and opening into North Carolina as well. We have several next markets on our short list of family friendly, growing and in need of Brave Cares that we will expand into next year. We’ll soon get to a dozen clinics and continue on to hundreds of clinics because getting sick or injured is actually a healthy part of a child’s development… we just want to make sure they come away with their confidence to continue becoming their best selves.

I’m genuinely very happy about our lead investor Jeff Rinehart at City Light joining Brave Care to help us push on this next phase of our journey. They are an impact oriented fund that is perfectly aligned with our commitment to build a great company while doing good. Together we built an impact pro forma that will help us stay accountable to making sure we create more equitable, empathetic and inclusive care for all kids and every kind of family.

Our $10M Series A was led by City Light with additional support from existing investors like Founders' Co-op, Refactor, Fifty Years and Indicator Ventures… and we welcomed several new values aligned investors like AV8, Gaingels, Interplay and Learn Capital.

This investment secures the next phase of our growth, but we’re also exploring other non-dilutive forms of funding that will allow us to drastically ratchet up our expansion as we acquire existing pediatric practices and plug in the Brave Care infrastructure… immediately creating a more robust service offering while being more profitable & efficient.

With all that we were able to do in a terribly, difficult year… I’m excited to see what we can do in a more reasonably normal year… and in the good years to come.

The journey of 2020 and all the places we're going in 2021 and beyond...

I started Brave Care with a commitment to making sure kids get the best medical care and the chance to reach their potential. Each and every provider at Brave Care has been selected by me personally to help us continue our mission. I know you’ll be just as impressed by their knowledge and compassion as I am. They’ve all received top degrees and certifications and below are some of the attributes that I personally appreciate about each provider.

We’re honored to continue to take the best care of your little ones, and as we open additional clinics in the Portland area and expand to new states, it will always be one of our highest priorities to hire pediatric providers that give your child the highest quality, most comfortable and happiest care. 

Here's what I love about these incredible people...


Kelly has been with Brave Care since she left training. In the time she has been with us, it's clear that she has an incredible talent for pediatric care. Even when she was brand new, she picked up on some very subtle but serious illnesses that even seasoned providers could miss. Kelly is super friendly and ALWAYS smiling.

Due to her training as an  Air Force flight nurse, Hayley knows how to keep calm under pressure. She’s incredibly thoughtful and always knows just the right questions to  ask parents.

Chelsea has been practicing as  long as I have. She possesses a   depth and breadth of knowledge, she’s efficient, friendly and amazingly skilled with procedures such as stitches or fracture care.

Marcus is our newest provider  but quickly becoming loved by patients and coworkers alike.   He’s a great example of what   we look for in a provider, and has already skillfully managed several highly complicated cases.

Like myself, Whitney moved from a rural practice where she practiced completely and totally independently and was the first and last line of the defense for kids' health. Whitney is funny, engaging, and friendly.


Danielle is so thoughtful! She takes time to process and think through all information in order to help you make the best decisions for your child’s health. She has a great sense of humor that adults and kids alike appreciate.

Sarah is a newer addition to Brave Care but built a practice for herself near Tualatin before joining. She’s so well-liked and amazing at her job that she has patients who drive over an hour to see her. Also, she’s our resident Pokemon expert (she holds our Brave Care Poke gyms—who wants to battle?)

Joanna has a wealth of experience as a pediatrician.   She’s compassionate, kind, an excellent listener and extremely patient. Dr. Z routinely goes above and beyond for every single one   of her patients.

I care so much about investing in the best pediatric providers because they give your children the most thoughtful care. Our mission is to help your child reach their potential, and that starts with the foundation of good health. 

Along with the most available hours for in-person care, at Brave Care you get the benefit of having access to our entire care team who will give your child personalized and empathetic care. You don't need to know "if your pediatrician can see you today," at Brave Care we can see you any day you need us.

Modern primary and urgent care for kids

Brave Care offers safe COVID-19 testing for kids and families, with results in about 15 minutes.

Exceptional pediatric care  your little ones deserve.

Same-day appointments, open  nights and weekends.

A nurturing Care Team of expert pediatric medical professionals.

A seamless, modern experience— online and offline.

“Seriously amazing!”

By your side from birth to graduation.

The ER will cost 10x more than a visit with us...

Never worry alone.  
We’re here 24hrs a day.

2 convenient Portland locations

Finding answers shouldn’t be hard.  
We make it easy.

The latest from Brave Care

How we’re creating inclusive and accessible products for ALL families

Announcing our $10M Series A funding

Meet our growing team of providers

Ready to join us for primary care?
Download the app to get started.

Modern primary and urgent care for kids

Brave Care offers safe COVID-19 testing for kids and families, with results in about 15 minutes.

Exceptional pediatric care your little ones deserve.

Same-day appointments, open nights and weekends.

A nurturing Care Team of expert pediatric medical professionals.

A seamless, modern experience— online and offline.

“Seriously amazing!”

By your side from birth to graduation.

The ER will cost 10x more than a visit with us...

Never worry alone. We’re here 24hrs a day.

2 convenient Portland locations

Finding answers shouldn’t be hard. We make it easy.

The latest from Brave Care

How we’re creating inclusive and accessible products for ALL families

Announcing our $10M Series A funding

Meet our growing team of providers

Ready to join us for primary care?Download the app to get started.

Exceptional pediatric care  your little ones deserve.

Same-day appointments, open  nights and weekends.

A seamless, modern experience— online and offline.

Never worry alone.  
We’re here 24hrs a day.

Finding answers shouldn’t be hard.  
We make it easy.

Ready to join us for primary care?
Download the app to get started.