Regional Women’s Services & Pediatrics

RMCHP Services

• Pregnancy Tests

  We offer urine pregnancy testing. Our pregnancy tests can detect a positive result in just 7-10 days after conception.

• Family Planning

  Family planning services help individuals determine the number and spacing of their children. Family planning promotes positive birth outcomes and healthy families. The RMCHP offers a variety of family planning related medical, educational and counseling services.

  Family Planning services offered by the RMCHP include the following:

  • Comprehensive health assessment for both males and females, including medical history and physical examination
  • Routine and problem-related medical follow-up visits
  • Contraceptive supply visits
  • Laboratory testing, including Pap smears, sexually transmitted infections (STI) tests, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) tests, urine tests, and screening for diabetes and anemia
  • Treatments of STIs and common genitourinary infections
  • Preconception counseling to support healthy outcomes of future pregnancies
  • Pregnancy testing
  • Provision of FDA-approved contraception methods
• Prenatal Care

   

  The goal of prenatal care in the Regional Women’s Services and Pediatrics is a healthy baby, a healthy mother and a healthy family. We encourage our patients and their families to participate in planning for the birth of their child. Birth Planning has been shown to be instrumental in fostering healthy family relationships and establishing bonds between the baby, mother, spouse/significant other, and other family members.

  Pregnancy Tests

  We offer urine pregnancy testing. Our pregnancy tests can detect a positive result in just 7-10 days after conception

  Prenatal care at UTMB Regional Women’s Services and Pediatrics clinics includes the following services:

  • Comprehensive health history
  • Physical Exam
  • Screening for diabetes, sexually transmitted infection, high blood pressure and other medical problems
  • Lab Work
  • Prescriptions
  • Ultrasound
  • Prenatal Education
  • Consultation with a specialist if needed
  • Delivery at UTMB
  • Follow up care of mother and infant after birth

  Why Should I Have My Baby At UTMB?

  1. You will be considered a UTMB patient throughout your entire pregnancy. Even though there may be a hospital more conveniently located to your home, UTMB is ready and waiting to take care of you.
  2. Bilingual staff is available 24 hours a day/ 7days a week.
  3. UTMB has highly qualified; specialized physicians, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to meet your needs for anesthesia. Epidurals are available around the clock.
  4. Certified nurse midwives are available to care for women with normal pregnancies.
  5. Highly trained specialists and specialized equipment are always, immediately available at UTMB, should you or your baby experience complications.
  6. At UTMB, tubal ligation is available to you the same day or the day after you deliver your baby. This service is not offered at all hospitals.
  7. Follow-up appointments are made for you and your baby BEFORE you leave the hospital.
  8. You are not a "drop-in" patient at UTMB Regional Women’s Services and Pediatrics; you are OUR patient throughout your pregnancy. We WANT to take care of you at UTMB.

   

• Certified Nurse Midwives

  Certified nurse midwives (CNMs) have been providing women’s health care and gynecological services through the UTMB Health’s Regional Women’s Services and Pediatrics for over 20 years. While nurse midwives are well known for working along-side women desiring natural or low intervention approaches to pregnancy and delivery, they are also skilled at providing a wide range of obstetric, gynecologic, and family planning services using a patient-centered approach to care. UTMB Health certified nurse midwives have the ability to perform lab work, order ultrasounds, provide pain relief in labor, prescribe contraception, and treat minor gynecological issues. Our nurse midwives understand that women have a choice in their care and work hard to provide both clinic and delivery services in a respectful and meaningful way to all the women we serve.

  Each certified nurse midwife is a Texas licensed advanced practice nurse with graduate level training in women’s health and obstetrical care. While some midwives work at home or a birth center, the UTMB nurse midwives provide care at our Regional Women’s Services and Pediatrics clinics and deliver babies at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston. This arrangement allows the nurse midwives to work closely with obstetricians, gynecologists, maternal fetal medicine specialists, pediatricians, and neonatologists to ensure patients have access to the highest level of care if necessary.

  Certified nurse midwives at UTMB Health are located in our clinics in Pasadena, Texas City, Dickinson, Beaumont, and Galveston. To schedule an appointment at a location convenient for you, please call our Galveston clinic at (409) 747-4952.

  For specific questions or more information about our midwifery services, please e-mail: midwife@utmb.edu.

• Dysplasia

  Regional Women’s Services and Pediatrics offers services for screening and treatment of cervical dysplasia. 

  Dysplasia is a term used to describe the appearance of abnormal cells on the cervix. These abnormal cells are normally first detected by a pap smear. Familiar to most women, Pap smear tests are normally a part of the annual well-woman visit.

  While dysplasia is not cancer it can develop into cancer of the cervix. Cervical dysplasia does not cause symptoms, and varies in severity; therefore regular screening and early diagnosis are essential to prevent cancer. There are many ways to treat dysplasia, depending on a variety of factors, such as its severity, age of the patient and the presence of any other problems. Regional Women’s Services and Pediatrics provides pap smear testing, and if necessary, diagnosis and treatment of dysplasia.