The Vanderbilt Center for Women’s Health began serving patients at its new outpatient clinic at NorthCrest Medical Center in Springfield this week. The integrative Vanderbilt Center for Women’s Health at NorthCrest will provide gynecology, urogynecology, obstetrics, high-risk obstetrics and infertility services by physicians and certified nurse midwives.

Since January, Vanderbilt has been offering family-centered cesarean sections to give families the opportunity to view the birth of their baby, if they desire, as well the chance to hold and bond with the baby in the operating room shortly following birth. More than 170 families have taken advantage of the program and been able to have skin-to-skin contact with their newborn.

The Vanderbilt Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is pleased to announce the addition of a new faculty member: Dr. Jennifer Thompson! Dr. Thompson received her M.D. from the University of Toledo in 2007, performed her Residency at Beaumont Hospital, and has recently completed a Fellowship at Duke University Health System. She will be joining our Maternal Fetal Medicine division.