Fort Campbell hospital adds weekly contraceptives clinic, counseling

Courtesy of Blanchfield Army Community Hospital
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Blanchfield Army Community Hospital employee, Michele Willis, checks a soldier in for the Fort Campbell hospital’s weekly walk-in contraceptive clinic on Fort Campbell on Jan. 11. Services include contraception counseling, initial prescription or prescription refill, and IUD or implant placement or removal.
Blanchfield Army Community Hospital employee, Michele Willis, checks a soldier in for the Fort Campbell hospital’s weekly walk-in contraceptive clinic on Fort Campbell on Jan. 11. Services include contraception counseling, initial prescription or prescription refill, and IUD or implant placement or removal.

Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Fort Campbell launched a new weekly walk-in contraceptive clinic Jan. 11, providing patients an additional option to learn more about contraception, menstrual suppression and get a birth control prescription or refill.

Lt. Col. Laurey Tyson, BACH’s Chief of Women’s Health Services said that short-acting reversible contraception (SARC) options including birth control pills, patch, ring, and quarterly injection, as well as long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) options including intrauterine devices (IUD) and the implant are available at BACH.

The new the walk-in contraceptive clinic is each Wednesday in the Women’s Health Clinic on the third floor of the hospital’s A Bldg. Sign-in is between 8 - 8:30 a.m. and patients are seen on a first-come, first-served basis. Services include contraception counseling, initial prescription or prescription refill, and IUD or implant placement or removal.

The hospital also offers birth control classes throughout the month for TRICARE beneficiaries. After the class patients may obtain a birth control prescription or can be scheduled directly with a BACH credentialed Women’s Health Provider for IUD/Implant placement. Patients are encouraged to call 270-412-9109 to sign-up for a birth control class.

For more information visit the hospital’s website at Blanchfield.tricare.mil and select Women’s Health.

This article originally appeared on Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle: Blanchfield Army Community Hospital adds contraceptives clinic