Women’s Health Services at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women in Memphis

Baptist has been delivering babies for a century. We are dedicated to women’s health and wellness and delivering the best possible women’s health services:

• Our unique Beautiful Beginnings program provides parents with prenatal childbirth classes, virtual learning events, and postpartum support and classes
• MyChart provides in-depth medical history of visits, medications and test results with connectivity to their providers all at their fingertips
• High Risk Delivery care with Baptist’s Maternal Fetal Medicine experts, Jacques Samson, MD and Danielle Tate, MD
• Center of Excellence in Addiction Medicine for the management of substance abuse in maternity patients
• OBGYN Residency program
• Nurse Practitioners managing Maternal Fetal Triage Assessment rooms
• Certified obstetrical registered nurses
• Certified mother/baby nurses
• Certified car seat technicians
• Lactation consultants

Our maternity programs also include high-risk pregnancy services, labor and delivery services, a comfortable mother/baby unit, the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and a wide range of classes for birthing, breastfeeding and parenting.

At Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, we don't want any woman to experience breast cancer alone. That's why we developed this program, where women have access to all-female clinical staff and all-female radiologists, to make it easier to navigate the breast cancer process.

Most patients are introduced to the Comprehensive Breast Program at the time of their diagnosis through the Baptist Women's Health Center or at the recommendation of their physician, who is a member of the Comprehensive Breast Program network. The experienced staff at our women’s hospital is comprised of the following health care professionals:

• Network of breast cancer experts: Participating patients can be referred to any of the expert physicians in the network—giving them access to experts, second and third opinions and advanced treatment options.

• Breast Nurse Navigators: These registered nurses, with years of experience in cancer care, help patients gain access to local resources, services and support groups while also helping coordinate care with the office of each patient’s referring physician.

We are dedicated to improving women’s bone health for residents across the Mid-South. Baptist's Women's Health Center offers bone densitometry diagnostic screening services at the Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women. To schedule a bone density screening please call 901-227-PINK.  Your appointment will be scheduled in our renovated space at the Baptist Women’s Health Center - 55 Humphreys Blvd - Suite 17 - Memphis TN 38120.

At our women’s hospital, all of our patients go to the same floor after surgery, which allows all staff—physicians, nurses and more—to work as a team to make your stay the best.

• Gynecologic surgeries, including oncology
• Urogynecology surgeries and physical therapy
• Breast surgeries, including augmentation and reduction
• Abdominal surgeries
• Plastic surgeries
• General surgery: gall bladder, appendectomy, thyroid, and others

Discharge Instructions and Ongoing Care

At Baptist Women’s Hospital, we want to ensure your recovery continues smoothly after you go home. Following surgery, you will be provided personalized instructions for your medications, wound care, pain management, and, more importantly, when you should call your doctor to minimize complications during your recovery.

The Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women sees both men and women who are suffering with lymphedema, which is the swelling of a body part (usually an extremity) with lymph fluid following procedures or trauma related to lymph nodes. Lymphedema can occur following some breast procedures. We provide the following lymphedema care options:

• Complete decongestive therapy
• Noninvasive, manual lymph drainage
• Compression bandaging/garments
• Skin care
• Self-massage and exercises

Have questions about our lymphedema services? Contact us at 901-227-9694.