Comprehensive women’s health & OB/GYN services in Athens, Texas
At UT Health Athens, we provide comprehensive women’s health services delivered with compassion and expertise. Our providers are attentive and specially trained to provide various services, including routine well-woman exams, menopause and hormone therapy, and obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) services. We also offer a wide range of maternity services for patients who are pregnant, from the time of conception through delivery and the period following delivery (postpartum). Whether you’re in need of a Pap smear or seeking prenatal care, our women’s health specialists are committed to offering the high-quality, personalized women’s health care you deserve.
Our women’s health services
We make getting women’s healthcare easy and convenient with the obstetrics-gynecology clinic, the gynecology clinic, the UT Health Athens Family Birthplace and the UT Health Breast Center in Athens and Cedar Creek Lake.
Women’s clinics provide wellness and specialty services.
Our obstetrics-gynecology clinics in Athens offer the following services:
- Birth control
- Clinical breast exams
- Delivery at the UT Health Family Birthplace in Athens
- Gynecological care
- Lab tests
- Language translation services
- Laparoscopic surgery
- Menopause and hormone therapy
- Pap smears
- Physical exams
- Pregnancy screenings including glucose challenge and glucose tolerance; first trimester, mid-trimester and third trimester ultrasounds; group B strep culture
- Prenatal care
The UT Health East Texas Physicians obstetrics-gynecology clinics in Athens are located next to the hospital at 115 Medical Circle, Suite 103. Call for an appointment at 903-676-5553 or 903-677-8453. Medicaid, Medicare and most insurance plans are accepted.
UT Health Family Birthplace in Athens
Our specially trained doctors and nurses treat every birth as a special delivery at Henderson County’s only hospital with maternity services. Our policy of continuous care is designed to make your delivery as smooth and comfortable as possible. Nine/delivery/recovery/postpartum suites, eight postpartum rooms, a Level I nursery, special classes and education help set the UT Health Family Birthplace in Athens apart.
For more information, click here or call 903-676-2117.
Breast health services
Mammography has helped reduce breast cancer deaths by 40 percent since 1990. That’s because annual mammograms can detect cancer early, when it’s most treatable.
- 3D Mammography or digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) allows the radiologist to see through the breast tissue better than the traditional 2D mammogram. This technology allows images to be divided up into multiple layers, allowing the radiologist to review one layer at a time, reducing the tissue overlap effect. This helps the radiologist find smaller cancers that may be harder to find at an earlier stage.
- The patient experience for 3D mammography is very similar to that of 2D. Each breast is still compressed in two different positions, but the difference is in what the machine does. 3D mammography is offered at all UT Health East Texas HOPE Breast Care Centers across the region, as well as on our mobile mammography unit, which travels to communities across East Texas.
- We also offer breast ultrasounds, which are used to confirm the presence or absence of a mass in dense or fibrous tissue. These can often obscure problems. Breast ultrasounds are a painless method that use high-frequency soundwaves to scan and create an image of the breast tissue in question.
- In addition, we provide genetic testing to verify if you are at increased risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer due to family history.
For more information or to make an appointment, please call 903-531-8000.
