At the Women’s Medicine Collaborative, we offer specialty services for
non-pregnant and pregnant women. Our all-woman staff provides our
patients with comfort and privacy, as well as unparalleled expertise and
experience.
Our specialty services include:
- Pulmonary Medicine Consultation
We provide pulmonary consultation and pulmonary
function testing.
- Asthma Management Program
Staffed by a board-certified pulmonologist, a nurse
practitioner who is a certified asthma educator, a
respiratory therapist who is also a certified asthma educator,
and an obstetric internist, our program offers comprehensive
asthma management.
- Pulmonary Diseases in Pregnancy
In collaboration with the patient’s referring
obstetrician, midwife, obstetric internist or other health care
provider, a coordinated plan of care is developed for
pregnant women with acute and chronic pulmonary disorders. .
- Infectious Diseases Consultation
The Women’s Medicine Collaborative offers consultative services
for pregnant and non-pregnant women with infectious diseases
such as MRSA, tuberculosis, shingles, staph infection, and HIV..
- Women's Cancer Survivorship
Program
From the day a diagnosis of cancer is made, survivorship
begins.
The "I Am”: Women’s Cancer Survivorship Program looks beyond a
cancer diagnosis and treatment, and focuses on an integrative
approach to address a woman’s individual physical and
psychosocial needs. A comprehensive evaluation and plan of care
will include a cancer treatment summary, nutrition guidelines,
exercise recommendations, stress management strategies, genetic
susceptibility assessment, sexuality and reproductive concerns,
and coping with the physical and emotional needs of women
survivors. Recommendations for cancer surveillance and health
maintenance, addressing the effects of treatment and regaining
physical and emotional well-being, are the cornerstones of this
program.
Our team of caring, experienced providers understands that women
with cancer are more than their diagnosis. We appreciate and
value who you are. When we speak to our patients, they tell us:
“I am a mother.” “I
am a wife.” “I am
a grandmother.” We recognize you as a person
living with cancer and offer individualized life care
plans to optimize well-being, assist in disease prevention, and
enhance quality of life.
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- Lifestyle
Medicine Center
Lifestyle
medicine is the evidence-based practice of assisting individuals and families
to adopt and sustain behaviors that can improve health and quality of life. Lifestyle medicine
focuses on physical
activity, nutrition, substance use and stress management.
At
the Women’s Medicine Collaborative we believe that caring for a patient is more
than writing a prescription or ordering a test. We care for the whole person. We
offer a comprehensive lifestyle medicine evaluation. After
assessing past medical history, family history and lifestyle habits, our
lifestyle medicine team works with the patient to identify those areas that the
patient would like to improve.
Working
together, we set health enhancing goals, such as increasing physical activity,
adding more fruits and vegetables to the patient's diet, or reducing stress. The
lifestyle medicine team designs an action plan, which includes identifying
resources to support new behavior change goals.
Common
resources include exercise classes, stress management workshops, massage therapy,
acupuncture, yoga and nutrition counseling. These services may be available at
the Lifestyle Medicine Center, within the Lifespan health system, or in the
community.
Treatment for Gastrointestinal Disorders:
- GI Disorders in Pregnancy Clinic
We treat excessive nausea and vomiting (hyperemesis),
inflammatory bowel disease, hepatitis, and other
gastrointestinal disorders in pregnancy.
- Perinatal Hepatitis Program
We provide care for patients with hepatitis B and C through
pregnancy and offer counseling and appropriate medical therapy.
- Fecal Transplantation
We offer fecal transplantation for patients with recurrent C.
difficile disease.
To learn more about our specialty services or to
schedule an appointment call 401-793-5700.