Clarksville collaborate to provide OB-GYN hospitalist care

Courtesy of Tennova Healthcare
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Expectant women in Clarksville, Montgomery County and the surrounding area will soon benefit from around-the-clock, enhanced medical care during their labor and delivery through a collaboration between Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville to establish an OB-GYN hospitalist program. 

Set to launch in mid-September, the on-site program will provide oversight of expectant patients’ obstetric care until their obstetrician arrives to assume their care. The program will also support any OB-GYN emergencies seen within the emergency department at the Clarksville hospital. Clinical providers serving as OB-GYN hospitalists will be based within Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville’s Family Birth Center and will be solely dedicated to providing this care. 

Expectant women in Clarksville, Montgomery County and the surrounding area will soon benefit from around-the-clock care.
Expectant women in Clarksville, Montgomery County and the surrounding area will soon benefit from around-the-clock care.

Six to eight board-certified obstetrician/gynecologists from VUMC will serve as OB-GYN hospitalists at Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville, and the team will be led by William McIntosh, MD, a Clarksville obstetrician/gynecologist with more than three decades of experience in caring for women in Montgomery County and the surrounding area.

“For years, families in Montgomery County, upper Middle Tennessee and South Central Kentucky have trusted and relied upon the excellent labor and delivery services provided by the clinical teams at Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville,” said C. Wright Pinson, MBA, MD, Deputy CEO and Chief Health System Officer for VUMC. “The new OB-GYN hospitalist program will enhance that coverage and provide a 24/7 resource for families as they welcome new arrivals.

OB-GYN hospitalist care is a model of care in increasing use in the United States, and is in contrast to the traditional model of obstetrical care in which clinicians often divide their time among seeing their patients in outpatient clinics, outpatient surgery centers and the hospital.

Jeffrey Anderson, MD, immediate past chair of the Tennova Healthcare – Clarksville medical staff and an obstetrician in Clarksville, added, “The services provided by the OB-GYN Hospitalist program will add another layer of safety and quality to the obstetrical care that we provide at Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville’s Family Birth Center. Our local obstetricians will continue to provide inpatient care and deliver their private patients. The safety net provided through the new OB-GYN Hospitalist program is a wonderful benefit for our community of new parents and babies.”

To learn more about Tennova Healthcare - Clarksville’s Family Birth Center or to find a physician, visit www.tennovaclarksville.com. 

This article originally appeared on Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle: Clarksville collaborate to provide OB-GYN hospitalist care