Hunter Family Center for Women’s Health Celebrates 5th Anniversary

19,000+ mammograms, 11,000+ births and 103,000+ total procedures performed

For five years, the Hunter Family Center for Women’s Health, which includes the Waud Family Maternity Center and the comprehensive services of the Posy Krehbiel Breast Care Center, has provided the latest in diagnostic screening, outpatient treatment, home-based services, therapy, classes and comfort for every stage of life.

Our nurse navigator program offers patients a uniquely personalized approach to their comfort and well-being, guiding them through every step of cancer testing, diagnosis, surgery and/or treatment regimen.

Since opening, the center has provided:

19,000+ mammograms
22,000+ total imaging procedures per year at Posy Krehbiel Breast Care Center
11,000+ births
More than 1,000 total Level II+ neonatal patients* treated in Special Care Nursery
103,000+ total procedures at Hunter Family Center for Women’s Health (2004–2008)

The Hunter Center features four digital mammogram rooms (including a larger detector with less radiation for larger breasted women), three ultrasound rooms, bone density room and stereotactic breast biopsy room.

Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital’s surgical subspecialists are trained and board certified in general surgery, surgical oncology, laparoscopic surgery, neurosurgery, oral/maxillofacial surgery, orthopedic surgery, pediatric orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, pelvic surgery and urogynecologic vascular surgery.

*Level II+ is a state certification that allows Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital to keep stable ventilated babies (instead of transferring them to Children’s Memorial Hospital) under collaborative management with Children’s Memorial Hospital pediatric hospitalists and Evanston (North Shore) Hospital neonatologists.

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