Case Study: Trusted Pregnancy Care Center

Case Title: The case title for my case brief is Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 490 (1987).

From the results, it is evident that the interventions were effective in increasing ANC coverage and improving other pregnancy related issues that emerged as a result of lack of or insufficient ANC. They addressed the common problems that affected the utilization of ANC, these included: maternal knowledge, accessibility to health care facilities and financial difficulties. Accordingly, as doctors and future practitioners, it is imperative that as we provide maternal and antenatal care, we structure the health care services we provide around the patient and cater to a patient's individual preferences, needs and concerns. We are advised to accommodate the patient as much as we can, which means providing them with care that is specific to them

“If a sweeping pestilence struck down as many women in a community as are taken in childbirth we would immediately be aroused,” claimed Beatrice E. Tucker, Director and Associate Obstetrician of The Chicago Maternity Center. Beatrice was determined to helped needed women, in a needed community, in Chicago. (Tucker, Beatrice E., and Harry B. Benaron, 1) The Chicago Maternity Center was founded in 1895, by Dr. Joseph DeLee. However, it was led and directed by Dr. Beatrice Tucker, accompanied by her partner Dr. Harry Benaron. The center was opened from 1932 until 1973. The center provided free obstetrical care for poor women while at the same time helping doctors train for the latest methods to as well provide safe delivery for these women (Simpson, 1). The center wasn’t such a famous hospital or clinic as the time. It also wasn’t located by means of a medical school, such as the University of Chicago. Instead, the Chicago Maternity Center was located at 1334 South Newberry Street, centered at Chicago’s West Side. The reason for this was because, when Beatrice Tucker became the Chicago Maternity Center’s leader, the community was trapped as a desperate poor immigrant working class (Simpson, 1). Therefore, the center had two purposes. The first, was to care for and treat poor women, in childbirth, right at their homes. Second, was to teach doctors, medical students, and nurses “the science and art of obstetrics” (Tucker, Beatrice E., and Harry B. Benaron, 1). Through these

Provide full antenatal care including the screening tests in the hospital, community and at home.

I chose to forgo using the premedical committee services available at my undergraduate institution for various reasons. Firstly, I felt that the benefits of using such services were lacking. I found that the only advantage of using the services was that it provided a ranking of my grade point average (GPA) compared to other pre-med applicants at Oregon State University who are applying in the same application cycle. Seeing as medical schools holistically evaluate all of their applicants and there is no way to accurately compare one school’s program to another, the benefit of a GPA ranking is dismal at best. Furthermore, I could achieve the same result requesting letters from specific recommenders who know me more personally and I could easily

The Hand of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center (HOH) is a pregnancy resource center located in the triangle area. HOH has two centers, one located in Fuquay Varina, NC and the other located in Raleigh, NC. The Raleigh location center is not called Hand of Hope but rather Your Choice Pregnancy Center. HOH truly gives the preborn a chance to live. Since HOH is a Christian based organization, the company believes that life starts at the moment of conception. Because of this, HOH uses the moment of each client finds out they are pregnant to truly assess the positive factors of choosing life for the child. HOH offers a variety of services to a woman and male experiencing the gift of life. These services include but do not limit to: free pregnancy screening and tests, ultrasounds, life

One day the editor of The Herald Tribune, Jim Bellows, requests Sheehy to speak with him in his office. He wanted her to know how he liked all the “gritty stuff in the middle of all the fluff,” and that she should “keep it up.” Due to Bellows’ all clear she was able to explore more news-based stories over fluff (Sheehy, 3-9). She had heard rumors on how New York City’s maternity clinics had a high risk of infant mortality, and with newfound freedom she launched an investigative piece on the issue. At the time of her piece she was heavily pregnant that allowed her the perfect cover into the clinics. The story unearthed how horrible the practices were on poor women at these free maternity clinics. After the story published clinics were cleaned

Thank you for allowing Rialto Family Health Services (RFHS) to join in the Mayors Challenge collaboration last week. Our organization was surprised to find no identifiable measures established in current social service programs to track veterans in San Bernardino County. As you know, without the ability to specifically track the veterans, they will remain included in the compiled statistics. RFHS believes this tracking method would significantly help many organizations and communities effectively decrease the 47% rate of veterans’ homelessness in many counties.

One important health disparity is the lack of prenatal care amongst women in socially disadvantaged populations. These predominately include women of minorities, women who have a low income, and the location these women live in. This health disparity is important to address because research has shown that women who receive prenatal care are more likely to conceive babies of a healthy birth weight and have low infant mortality rates than those women who do not receive this prenatal care ("Putting Women 's Health Disparities on the Map," 2009). Therefore, health disparities amongst women in need of prenatal care have lead to preventable infant mortalities amongst women in vulnerable populations. Three reasons why this health disparity is important to address include the following: health disparities in prenatal care lead to lack of access to prenatal care to women in vulnerable populations, there are increased adverse health outcomes for both the infant and mother, and there are excess medical expenses that could otherwise have been prevented. Because “prematurity is the leading cause of newborn death in the United States” (“Healthy Mothers and Healthy babies,” 2013), finding and developing a solution will be extremely beneficial and needs to begin with addressing prenatal care.

A young woman, pregnant, scared, and alone gives birth to a healthy baby. She has no idea what to do. How can she handle a newborn baby when she can’t even take care of herself? Depressing thoughts enter her mind, and she can’t think of anything but to do something she will regret later. She doesn’t realize her choices. This is what safe havens are for. Safe havens are usually located at hospitals, but depending on what state you reside in, they can also be at fire houses and police stations. The mother of the child can take the baby in and leave it… which isn’t the most attractive thing. Some say safe havens shouldn’t be an option, and that parents should take responsibility for what they have done, and suffer the consequences. It might not be a secure substitute, but think of what could happen if there wasn’t a choice of safe havens. Safe havens are effective at stopping parents from harming or abandoning their babies because of the lives they save, and the opportunities given to the families affected.

an amniocentesis. For some women, this is an option, for others, this is a must due to previous

For my cultural plunge, I decided to sit in at a birth mothers care group for women who decided to give their child or children up for adoption. This care group is one of many care groups held by Crisis Pregnancy Outreach. Crisis Pregnancy Outreach, or “CPO” is a nonprofit organization assisting women in crisis, such as those experiencing unplanned pregnancies. Their main mission is to help woman find alternate solutions to unplanned pregnancies that do not result in abortion.

The client, Aries is a 17-year-old, single, aboriginal female currently attending high school. She lives with her mother, and 4 older siblings; 2 brothers and 2 sisters. This is her first prenatal visit. She is currently 12 weeks pregnant, was not using contraception and did not

Christine Le, an accountant living in Flushing, New York, gave birth to a healthy baby “Nathan” on January 29th, 2010. She found out that she was pregnant with her first child when her period was late. She had the routine prenatal care starting at 12 weeks and delivered at 40 weeks in a hospital with the present of her husband, Robert, and the in-laws. To insure her baby was healthy, Christine underwent several prenatal diagnostic methods like amniocentesis to examine for genetic defects. Another method was ultrasound; its purpose is to assess fetal age, multiple pregnancies, size and shape of the fetus. Christine underwent numerous lab tests to ensure that there are no complications (Berk, pg.43). Lab tests like a complete blood count that screens

Any pregnant woman struggling with the decision of what to do about an unplanned pregnancy can experience many conflicting emotions. These decisions are no doubt life changing and the ultimate struggle is whether she is making the right or wrong