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The Women's Center at Riverside
The new Women's Center at Riverside offers comprehensive women's health services in one convenient location. Services in the new Women's Center include:
Who we are
The Women's Center, opened in June of 2008, began as the vision of passionate doctors who realized the need comprehensive center for women's health.
Now, thousands of hours of research and planning that has come to fruition in the form of an initiative that takes all of the excellent programs already available at Riverside and brings them together into one location within the hospital. A key feature in the design for the new Women's Center is patient convenience.
A number of the Riverside's Women's Health services were scattered across the hospital campus, making access difficult and confusing, and increasing the patient's anxiety and stress during times of physical discomfort. In the new Women's Center, all women's health subspecialty treatment areas are centralized, thus eliminating the frustration for patients and their families, of having to travel from one end of Riverside's large complex to the other.
The former entrance to the emergency department, ideal because of its proximity to Labor and Delivery, is now the dedicated entrance to the Women's Center. The Center houses:
Location
The first floor
At the Women's Center, patients enter through the dedicated entrance into a beautiful and comprehensive center. The corridor leading to the Information Area, features the offices for genetics counseling, massage therapy, lactation consulting, infant care services and the spacious Women's Boutique. The Maternal-Fetal Medicine facility, also situated on this floor, provides ample and convenient physician/patient rooms for outpatient services including rooms for:
- Ultrasound
- Fetal Monitoring
- Genetics counseling
- Private consultations
This central entrance also provides visitors easy access to:
- The Family Care Unit
- The High Risk Pregnancy Unit
- Enhanced Gynecological Services
- Ob/Gyn Community Care
The lower level
The Women's Center also houses the recently renovated Riverside Ob/Gyn Community Care, specializing in caring for the needs of women in our community. In addition, it provides an ideal facility for training future Ob/Gyn physicians.
Dr. Carl Krantz, MD, chairman of Ob/Gyn Residency Training Program at Riverside, explains that the training of Ob/Gyn physicians absolutely requires hands-on experience. Riverside is the ideal teaching facility for these future leaders since the hospital's excellent reputation ensures that 20 to 40 patients per day will seek care at its facilities.
For the 16 doctors who complete their four-year residency training at Riverside, this large number of patients allows them to handle more cases. This way the doctors gain first hand experience with the diagnosis and treatment of a wider range of women's health issues.
This facility was designed to provide more efficient accommodations for both patients and doctors. It includes:
- a welcoming patient reception area
- ten exam rooms
- 4 procedure rooms
- 4 triage rooms
- a conference room for the residency program
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Family and birth education
Are you excitedly preparing for the birth of your baby or just beginning to consider starting a family? We know how it is. You're standing on the brink of something really, really big and you've had absolutely no preparation!
Our Family and Birth Education programs can help smooth your transition into parenthood by giving you the knowledge and confidence you need for the successful delivery and care of that special little someone.
Pregnancy and infant care
Our class offerings will guide and support you through all aspects of pregnancy and childbirth.
Adoption and infertility
We understand that couples who are trying to adopt children or coping with infertility issues need special services too. If you're considering adoption, we invite you to join us to learn new infant care skills. After your baby or older child arrives, you may want to join us for parenting classes that fit your family needs.
Read class descriptions or schedule a class now.
Breastfeeding support services
If you've decided that breastfeeding is best for your baby but need a little help and reassurance, our lactation consultants are available to help you in person or answer your breastfeeding questions by phone or in our support group. We can also assist you with breast pump selection, nursing bras, and other necessary accessories. Call the Women's Center at (614) 566-5353 or 1-800-313-9711 for more information or a free brochure.
Visit the Women's Boutique located in the Women's Center at Riverside to shop for these and other items.
Pregnancy loss
If you've lost a baby through miscarriage, tubal pregnancy, infant death or similar tragedy, you are encouraged to join the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Group. You can talk through your feelings and find support and ways to heal.
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Breastfeeding program
Our breastfeeding program is designed to help you with any breastfeeding concern or need you may have before you deliver, while you're in the hospital and after you're home. Call the Women's Center at Riverside at (614) 566-5353 or 1-800-313-9711 to get information about consultations, free baby weigh station, breast pump rental or purchase, nursing bras or related breastfeeding equipment.
Visit the Women's Boutique, located in the Women's Center at Riverside, to shop for these items.
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Parenting program
The Women's Center professional staff listens to women. We understand the challenges involved in the transition to parenting as well as the ongoing challenges of raising happy, well-adjusted, responsible children. We believe men and women deserve to know themselves as capable, competent parents who, with information and support, will make the best decisions for themselves and their families. We have the only hospital-based parenting program in central Ohio, with parenting professionals who offer a wide array of educational and support services.
We offer classes for the first-time mother and support and discussion groups for parents of children that are a little older (toddler).
Parenting help-line
Parents tend to use the same parenting methods with their children that their own parents used with them. However, lifestyles and parenting methods have changed. Our Parenting Help Line puts a parenting professional who offers effective, knowledgeable information within easy reach-by phone-and is available for families who need immediate parenting answers or someone to listen. Just call us at (614) 566-5353 or 1-800-313-9711 to talk to a skilled professional.
Read class descriptions or schedule a class now.
Parent consultation
For those who have concerns about parenting children from infancy through adolescence, our parenting consultants are available to work with you individually. Whether you need information about discipline, sibling rivalry, eating or sleeping issues, peer pressure-anything-we are your resource. Just call us for an appointment.
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Massage therapy
Commit to relaxation and good health. Experience our one-hour or 30-minute massage for relaxation, specific therapeutic benefits, to relieve work stress and revive energy. Call (614) 566-5353 for more information or to schedule an appointment.
Visit the Women's Boutique located in the Women's Center at Riverside to shop for wellness items to help with stress reduction.
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