WOMEN’S HEALTH SERVICES

Mee Memorial Healthcare System offers a wide variety and breadth of women’s health services from our board-certified and fellowship trained Family Medicine providers. Our practitioners help women protect their overall health through care of common conditions that affect the female body such as menstruation, routine examinations, and prenatal care among many others.

Our practitioners are experienced in providing care to young teens as well as women of all ages.

We help provide access to services for uninsured women through many local and federal programs and will help patients register for these services.

Women’s Health Services We Offer

The following are some of the most common services we provide to our local community:

Prenatal and Post-Partum Care:

Our providers include Family practice doctors who can take care of the whole family in addition to women’s’ healthcare needs in family planning and pregnancy. They are fellowship trained specifically in obstetrics and offer a family centered approach to pregnancy care with a focus on the care of women, infants and children. We are able to help you decide on the right time to start or expand your family and are able to promote the best health for both mothers and their children.

• Family planning, counseling, and pregnancy testing
• Infertility concerns
• Prenatal care throughout all 40 weeks of pregnancy:
  • Labs, ultrasounds, pregnancy complications, and high risk pregnancy conditions
• Postpartum care after delivery
• In-office/bedside ultrasound capabilities
• Connection to genetic screening and counseling
• Management of pregnancy loss (spontaneous abortion or miscarriage) including diagnosis, follow up, medication or surgical management including D&C
• Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program (CPSP) - perinatal education program

While we do not currently offer labor and delivery or triage services, it is something that we hope to bring back. Our core providers of obstetrical care have privileges at hospitals in Salinas are often able to provide continuity inpatient care through delivery and postpartum.

Gynecology:

Our providers can evaluate a myriad of conditions and concerns including irregular or abnormal menstruation or abnormal uterine bleeding, pelvic pain, ovarian cysts, abnormal discharge or concerns about infection or sexually transmitted diseases.

Some of the most important to highlight are:

• Cervical cancer screening and management of abnormal pap smears
• Biopsy, excision and/or drainage of abnormal vulvar lesions, cysts etc.
• Colposcopy and biopsy
• Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP) or cryotherapy for abnormal cervical pathology
• Immunizations for HPV, also called “Human Papilloma Virus” which is a sexually transmitted disease and can lead to cervical cancer. Currently offered routinely to teens during well child care but often covered by insurance for women up until the age of 26.
• Menstruation concerns, abnormal or irregular bleeding
• Menopause evaluation and treatment

Birth Control and Family Planning:

• Birth control counseling with referral for any services we do not currently offer.
• Long acting reversible contraception such as intrauterine devices (IUD) or subdermal implants (Nexplanon)
• Immediate post-partum tubal ligation

Sexually Transmitted Disease/Infection (STD/STI)

We offer quick and discrete evaluation and treatment for many of these conditions including Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Herpes virus, Human Papilloma virus, syphilis, HIV, hepatitis, fungal infections and other urogenital infections. We also provide “partner” treatment when indicated.

Breast Health:

• Evaluation of abnormal lesions, masses, skin findings
• Breast cancer screening or follow up of abnormal testing with onsite Mammography and ultrasound imaging capabilities
• Peri-partum complications of breast feeding or lactation support

Urogynecology:

• Urinary incontinence
• Urinary tract infections
• Pelvic floor dysfunction including sizing for pessary or management of other urogenital organ prolapse