Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati Web Site Focuses on Women with High-Risk Pregnancies

Released on = July 28, 2005, 7:03 am

Press Release Author = Amy Caruso

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = Women with high-risk pregnancies could benefit from a new Web site recently launched by the Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati. The Web site will also offer medical professionals, who like women with high risk pregnancies, could stand to benefit from having readily available new research advances on the Web site posted at www.fetalcarecenter.org.

Press Release Body = CINCINNATI – Women with high-risk pregnancies could benefit from a new Web site recently launched by the Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati at http://www.fetalcarecenter.org.

The Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati provides the world’s leading experts in maternal-fetal care, fetal and pediatric surgery and pediatric subspecialty care for women with high-risk pregnancies.

“Our center, which is a collaboration among several well-respected hospitals, is the only fetal center affiliated with a top ten children’s hospital, a top five university pediatric training program, two Level III maternity hospitals and three Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units,” said Timothy Crombleholme, MD, FACS, FAAP, fetal surgeon and director of the Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati.

All visitors to the new Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati Web site can view in-depth information on fetal conditions, abnormalities, diagnoses, fetal surgery treatments and specialists.

For women with high-risk pregnancies, the site provides a 24-hour secured page to request an appointment at https://secure.fetalcarecenter.org/appointments.htm. The site also supplies information regarding travel preparations and interpreter services. For medical professionals, it helps with the patient referral process as well by providing numbers for emergency transfers, non-urgent cases and consultations.

The Web site will also offer medical professionals, who like women with high risk pregnancies, could benefit from having readily available, new research advances. In addition, it helps medical professionals with the patient referral process as well by providing numbers for emergency transfers, non-urgent cases and consultations.

The Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati is a collaboration among Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Good Samaritan Hospital and The University Hospital, making it the only comprehensive fetal care program of its kind in the Midwest. Maternal-fetal medicine specialists William Polzin, MD, and Luis R. Saldana-Gautier, MD, join Dr. Crombleholme in managing the center.

“The Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati’s unique maternal and pediatric hospital collaborative allows us to provide the best, full-spectrum fetal therapy and
maternal-fetal care, which results in healthier babies,” says Crombleholme. “In a single day, patients receive a complete evaluation, including a recommended course of action given by world-renowned fetal surgeons and specialists.”

For more information about the Fetal Care Center of Cincinnati, please call 1-888-338-2559 (1-888-FETAL59), or send email to info@fetalcarecenter.org.

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Related Links
Fetal Conditions and Diagnoses: http://www.fetalcarecenter.org/medicine/therapies/
Fetal Surgery Procedures: http://www.fetalcarecenter.org/medicine/fetal-surgery/
Fetal Specialists: http://www.fetalcarecenter.org/team/
Fetal Care Services: http://www.fetalcarecenter.org/services/
Information for Referring Physicians: http://www.fetalcarecenter.org/physicians/
Information for Patients: http://www.fetalcarecenter.org/patients/
Fetal and Maternal Research and Education: http://www.fetalcarecenter.org/research/

Web Site = http://www.fetalcarecenter.org

Contact Details = amy.caruso@cchmc.org
513-636-5637 (PH)
513-736-0363 (PAGE)