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We are devoted to providing the full range of gynecologic and obstetrical services.
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Obstetrical care

Specializing in prenatal care

These services focus specifically on the care and treatment of women before and during their pregnancy, at childbirth and during the period of recuperation following childbirth:

  • Family planning and pre-pregnancy visits
  • Prenatal Visits & Ultrasounds
  • Preconception counseling
  • Birthing options
  • Prenatal care and testing
  • Perinatal care and support
  • Labor and delivery care
  • Postpartum care
  • Male infant circumcision
  • High Risk pregnancies including blood disorders, obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes
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Our OB/GYNs provide comprehensive care personalized to fit your unique needs.

Gynecological care

  • General gynecologic care
  • Contraception counseling and procedures
  • GYN surgery and procedures
  • Minimally invasive surgery
  • Infertility evaluation, testing and treatment
  • Menopause management
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minimally invasive surgery can treat and correct conditions such as:

  • Chronic pelvic pain
  • Uterine fibroids
  • Abnormal uterine bleeding
  • Endometriosis
  • Cervical abnormalities
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Minimally invasive surgery

In the past, open surgical hysterectomies resulted in hospital stays of several days, pain, a lengthy recovery time and a large abdominal scar. Now, minimally invasive surgical techniques result in hysterectomies that eliminate many of the disadvantages of traditional open surgical procedures.

Minimally invasive hysterectomies using laparoscopic techniques are unlike open surgeries because they are performed through one or more small incisions. These procedures may also allow more women, who may not be candidates for open surgery, have a hysterectomy.

Laparoscopic surgical procedures used in minimally invasive hysterectomies:

  • use fiber optics (laparoscope) and a miniature television camera along with specialized instruments are inserted into very small incisions in the navel and abdomen or through the vagina
  • may be exploratory while others are used to remove appropriate reproductive organs
  • may utilize robotic devices like the da Vinci Surgical System that permits surgeons to perform with extremely high precision, vision and a level of control unavailable with standard laparoscopic procedures.

Approaches and treatments depend upon factors such as obesity, prior abdominal surgery, scar tissue and other medical considerations.

Types of minimally invasive laparoscopic procedures

Laparoscopically Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy (LAVH)

Surgeons use special laparoscopic instruments to remove the uterus and, if necessary, the fallopian tubes and ovaries. By operating through the vagina, the cervix is separated from the top of the vagina permitting the uterus and the cervix to be removed through the vaginal opening.

Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy (LSH)

The LSH procedure is done to remove the upper two thirds of the uterus using laparoscopic instruments inserted through small incisions in the abdomen. By leaving the cervix intact and attached to the upper vagina, this procedure helps to provide better post-operative vaginal support and eliminates the need for the vagina to heal. Using specials instruments, the uterus is then removed through the small incisions in the abdomen.

Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy (TLH)

Using similar incisions to a Laparoscopic Supracervical Hysterectomy, a TLH involves removing both the cervix and the uterus. Unlike a Laparoscopic Assisted Vaginal Hysterectomy, a very limited portion of the TLH procedure is done through the vagina.

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