Obstetrics & Gynecology
(OB-GYN)
Comprehensive Women’s Care Located Close to Home
MetroHealth Women's Health
Every Age. Every Stage.
Women’s health is important across your lifetime. Our compassionate providers know that and put you first with specialized women’s healthcare. That starts with your first appointment in your early teens to your annual OB-GYN visit and pregnancy care. It also includes care for menopause, pelvic floor issues and cancer. Whatever you come to see us for, we’ll listen to you and develop a care plan just for you. MetroHealth is an academic health center, which means we are home to specialty-trained providers and researchers developing innovative treatments for all of your women’s health concerns.
Well-Woman Exam
You should get a well-woman exam every year, starting at age 21.
Mammogram
You should get a mammogram every year, starting at age 40 for women of average risk. Women with a strong family history of breast cancer may start earlier.
Cervical Cancer
You should get a Pap test every three years for women of average risk between the ages of 21-65.
Schedule your yearly exam to discuss women’s health screenings.
Annual visits are important to your health
Well-woman visits are a yearly opportunity to talk about your overall health and any concerns or symptoms you’re experiencing. Even if you feel healthy, it’s a time when you can ask questions about your health as you move through the stages of your life.
Many women disregard pain and symptoms—thinking that what they’re feeling is normal or just something they have to live with. Well-woman visits help make sure you’re living your healthiest life. The visits focus on preventing common gynecological concerns, your plans for pregnancy, and early diagnosis of problems when they’re most treatable.
During your visit, we’ll ask about:
- Nutrition
- Exercise
- Breast self-exams
- Safe sex
- Mental health
- Reproductive history
- Birth control
- Vaccinations
Not every well-woman visit requires a pelvic exam. Every 3-5 years, your provider will recommend a Pap test to help detect cervical cancer.
If you’re pregnant, or planning to become pregnant, a healthy child starts with great prenatal care. The decisions you make now—with food, your lifestyle and your healthcare—can give your baby the best chance for a healthier life.
Lead Safe Awareness
Lead can cause problems with learning, behavior, and growth. Protecting children from lead is important for lifelong good health. MetroHealth has Community Health Workers to help prepare you and your home for your new baby! Watch this video to learn how to bring your new baby back to a lead-safe home.
Fertility Services
MetroHealth’s caring, supportive fertility team is focused on helping you achieve a successful pregnancy, in a warm, personal and friendly environment.
Most women experience menopause anywhere from 45 to 54 years old.
Menopause is normal, and each woman’s menopause experience is different. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle during this time of transition is essential for your health and can even prevent or lessen the impact.
Menopause symptoms are caused by reduced or changing estrogen production. It’s important to continue seeing your women’s health provider as you enter menopause, since loss of estrogen is associated with increased risk of heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease and osteoporosis.
MetroHealth providers can help with:
- Hot flashes
- Night sweats
- Trouble sleeping
- Fatigue
- Vaginal dryness
- Heart palpitations
- Mood changes
Live your best life.
At the MetroHealth Center for Advanced Gynecology, our specialists have years of experience helping women with pelvic pain and prolapse, incontinence, endometriosis, fibroids and more.
Many women experience these issues—but you don’t have to live with symptoms that limit your daily life.
To schedule an appointment, call 216‑778‑4444
Midwifery
MetroHealth has built a team of experienced, certified nurse-midwives to help women—and our community—have options for pregnancy, childbirth and well-woman care.
Training Tomorrow’s Women’s Healthcare Experts
MetroHealth’s standing as a teaching and research hospital gives you access to the latest in innovative treatments, and care from providers who are constantly honing their skills and knowledge. All MetroHealth physicians are faculty at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and are engaged in the latest research to bring advances in medicine to your care.
Be well.
Be SimplyWell.
Be SimplyWell is your new home for important healthcare information that helps you take simple steps toward better health.
It’s a collection of resources—developed by the MetroHealth providers you know and trust—designed to make you an informed partner in your healthcare journey.
For Referring Providers
- Acute Care Issues (Labor & Delivery)
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