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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.
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.
Pregnancy Tests
If you think you might be pregnant, visit our free pregnancy testing locations at main campus or Ohio City. No appointment necessary.
Choosing a Provider
MetroHealth gives you options for the pregnancy care you want: a certified nurse-midwife, an obstetrician or a family medicine provider for low-risk pregnancy care, or a maternal/fetal medicine provider for high-risk pregnancies.
Pregnancy Resources
MetroHealth offers a robust series of childbirth education classes, breastfeeding support and classes for family members. It’s an added benefit of being a MetroHealth patient!
Birthing Center
When you’re having a baby, you want the most comfortable environment for you, your family and your friends to welcome your baby to the world. You’ll get just that—and more!—at the new MetroHealth Birthing Center.
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.
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:
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Hot flashes
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Night sweats
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Trouble sleeping
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Fatigue
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Vaginal dryness
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Heart palpitations
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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
Urogynecology
Urogynecology focuses on treating incontinence and pelvic floor disorders. With non-surgical and minimally invasive surgical options, we can relieve symptoms like bladder leakage, pain, urgency and pressure, so you don’t have to continue living with them.
Gynecologic Cancers
For gynecologic cancers—cancers that start in the female reproductive organs—it is important to contact your OB-GYN if you have symptoms like menopausal bleeding, abnormal menstruation, abdominal, pelvic or back pain, and changes to urination.
Minimally Invasive Surgery
Our specialty-trained gynecologic surgeons use minimally invasive procedures to treat complex conditions like pelvic masses, fibroids, pelvic pain and endometriosis. Ask your provider for a referral to explore if surgery is an option, get a second opinion, or discuss treatment that allows future pregnancies.
Reproductive Endocrinology and Fertility
If you’ve struggled to get pregnant—or you’re single or in a same-sex relationship—MetroHealth can help you become a parent. From treating infertility to protecting the fertility of cancer patients, our physicians are dedicated to helping you become parents.
Comprehensive Sexual Health Center
At MetroHealth, we help women—and men—address issues with sexual function. Whether that’s pain with sex, trouble with arousal, achieving orgasm, or another problem, we’re here to help.
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.
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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.
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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.
