For immediate release May 29, 2008
Contact: Emily Wofford Cobb
Office 775-784-6006
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School of Medicine holds monthly obstetrics clinics in Yerington
Clinics allow patients to receive routine obstetrical care
without traveling great distances
RENO, Nev.—Each month for the past eight years physicians from the University of Nevada School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine in Reno travel to Yerington to provide prenatal care to rural patients. The monthly clinics allow patients in the Yerington area to receive routine prenatal care without traveling great distances to visit a physician.
“It’s important for all expectant mothers to receive routine prenatal care,” says Catherine McCarthy, M.D., Yerington Obstetrics Clinic director and assistant professor of family and community medicine. “Currently, there are no physicians practicing obstetrics in Yerington, so this program offers prenatal care to patients who might otherwise have difficulty in obtaining or accessing care.”
Clinics are held the second Tuesday of each month from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the South Lyon Medical Center. Routine prenatal care, including ultrasounds, is provided at all clinics which are attended by at least one faculty physician and two resident physicians. Physicians may provide referrals to patients requiring specialized prenatal care and screening.
The school’s physicians, who see patients through University Health System, the clinical practice of the University of Nevada School of Medicine, deliver approximately 25 babies each year through the Yerington Obstetrics Clinic program. All babies are delivered at Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno.
The Yerington Obstetrics Clinic program is made possible through a grant from High Sierra Area Health Education Center, a division of the School of Medicine’s Center for Education Health Services Outreach.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 877-UHS-PHYS or 775-463-2348 ext. 1.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.