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Women’s Health Center
The Women's Health Center is a busy MacDonald Women’s Hospital-based clinic that provides patient care by resident physicians under the direct supervision of the Ob/Gyn faculty, certified nurse midwives, and a women’s health nurse practitioner who works in collaboration with the OB/Gyn faculty. There are more than 18,000 patient visits per year to this clinic. Patients attending the Women's Health Center present with a wide variety of conditions ranging from routine prenatal and well-woman care to high-risk pregnancy, complicated infertility, or oncologic difficulties
The residents throughout their four years have a stable core of individual patients assigned to them and are able to forge close continuous therapeutic relationships with their patients. The nurse midwives provide continuity over years of caring to a large number of women throughout lower-risk pregnancies, the postpartum period, and the reproductive years. The women’s health care practitioner also sees lower-risk women for pregnancy and reproductive issues and does a large volume of abnormal PAP followups and colposcopy care with collaborating physicians.
The Breast Center
The Breast Center is a state-of-the-art facility, staffed by a multidisciplinary team whose approach is to provide women with comprehensive, coordinated health care. Bringing together experts from Ireland Cancer Center and MacDonald Women’s Hospital, The Breast Center offers women comprehensive, sophisticated services that help detect and treat breast cancer.
Testing is done through an array of state-of-the-art technologies that include: mammography, computerized digital mammography, mammographic needle localization, mammographic, stereotactic core biopsy, ultrasound, fine needle aspiration, ABBI core biopsy, pathology (lab) services, and outside pathology review.
When the treatment path calls for interventional steps, The Breast Center offers surgical services, radiation therapy, adjuvant chemotherapy and hormonal therapy, breast reconstruction, participation in clinical trials, rehabilitation services, lymphedema services, and support every step of the way.
Fighting breast cancer requires more than medicine. Programs also focus on the patient’s emotional health and well-being. The Breast Center provides links for the patient to support groups, counseling, home care referrals, social work assistance, information on related services, and scheduling an appointment.
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