Women's Specialty Center

Services

The Women’s Specialty Center’s gynecologists and nurse practitioner serve the healthcare needs of 1women of all ages, whether they require specialty services or more general care.

Because a woman’s healthcare needs vary greatly throughout her lifetime, The Woman’s Specialty Center has developed a range of services that can be tailored to each woman’s individual requirements.

The Woman’s Specialty Center services include sexual dysfunction, urogynecology, and infertility counseling. State-of-the-art fertility treatment is available as a result of The Women’s Health Center’s partnership with the world-renowned Boston IVF Clinic. Many women seek assistance from healthcare providers at The Women's Health Center for symptoms associated with menopause.

Other services include:

• Adult, adolescent and pediatric gynecologic care
• Contraception
• Vaginal and uterine bleeding problems
• Breast cancer prevention and detection
• Pelvic and vulvar pain
• Male infertility
• Sexually-transmitted diseases
• Urinary incontinence (in conjunction with the CMMC Bladder Control Center)

Surgical treatments provided by the Women’s Specialty Center physicians include:

• Laparoscopic surgery (the use of small instruments to perform minimally-invasive surgery) for hysterectomy, tubal ligation, ovarian cyst removal, pelvic pain diagnosis, and infertility evaluation.

• Uterine balloon therapy for women with heavy, prolonged or painful periods who want an alternative to hysterectomy. This simple, 20-minute procedure has an 80 percent success rate.

• A diagnostic and surgical procedure called a hysteroscopy that allows the surgeon to see the uterus.

• Vaginally-, abdominally-, or laparoscopically-performed hysterectomies.

• Laser surgery for the treatment of precancerous lesions of the cervix and other conditions of the vulva.

• Tubal reversal surgery – a procedure that is 80 percent to 90 percent effective.

• TVT (tension-free vaginal tape): a minimally invasive procedure to correct urinary incontinence. The procedure is usually performed on an outpatient basis and most women recover in just two weeks.

• Pelvic organ prolapse surgery performed as an outpatient procedure or requiring just a one-night hospital stay.