About Women's Health
Women, over the course of their lives, face a unique set of changes and challenges. From embracing the miracle of childbirth to guarding against the onset of certain conditions, women’s health is about more than just great medical care. MetroSouth Medical Center’s Women’s Wellness Center, the Family Birth Place and the Women’s Care Unit are designed to support women as they meet the demands of their busy lives.
- MetroSouth Medical Center delivers nearly 1,500 babies each year, and that number is growing each day.
- Babies 30 weeks and beyond and who weigh at least 1,000 grams can safely be delivered at MetroSouth Medical Center.
- We have highly skilled specialists for high-risk patients – including the only bilingual team of Maternal Fetal Medicine OB/GYN physicians in the Southland, and perhaps in the Chicago area.
- As a Level 2+ birthing center, the Family Birth Place is also equipped with a full team of board-certified high risk perinatologists, neonatologists, obstetricians, certified nurse midwives and nurses specializing in advanced fetal monitoring.
- The MetroSouth Medical Center program physicians are well prepared to treat pregnant women with the most routine pregnancies, to those women who find themselves delivering multiple babies or babies with genetic problem. MSMC specialists can also treat pregnant patients with significant co-morbidities, such as insulin resistant diabetes, hypertension and congestive heart failure.
- Four midwives deliver babies in the hospital every day
- MetroSouth Medical Center has a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist on staff.
- MetroSouth Medical Centeralso has a gynecologist that specializes in incontinence.
- All MetroSouth Medical Center obstetricians are dedicated to their patients, allowing you to develop a special rapport and relationship with the physician who will see you through your delivery.
To schedule an appointment with a physician in our Women's Health Program, call the Physician Referral Line at 708-489-7925. To read more tips from the MetroSouth Women's Health team about planning for pregnancy, click here.