Perinatal Outreach Services

As a part of our commitment to provide high-risk obstetrical services to the Greater Augusta Region we provide care through various ways:

• Provide outreach facilities  in Richmond and Columbia Counties

• Use (Put MCG ED's Helicopter Service name in here) to quickly and safely transport high risk mothers.
• Provide extensive patient education for mothers regarding their diagnosis, treatment and outcome expectations.

• Multi-disciplinary care coordination with NICU and Pediatric Subspecialty Services when necessary

 

MCG Regional Perinatal Center  

How Can We Work with You?

The goal of MCG Regional Perinatal Center is to improve birth outcomes in the Greater Augusta Community and in East Central Georgia by providing comprehensive perinatal services to patients referred to the Regional Perinatal Center. The Maternal Fetal Medicine physician can see patients for a one time consultation and/or ultrasound, for co-management with the referring physician, or for transfer when desired by the referring physician. Our board certified physicians have extensive experience in providing consultative services for high-risk pregnancies. They are full time faculty with the Medical College of Georgia Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology MCG Health System  Hospital has the Region’s only comprehensive care center for neonates and the only Children's Medical Center.This allows for the delivery of optimal medical care to women with high-risk pregnancies and to sick or preterm newborns. MCG houses the only facility in the state where newborns can get the full range of Pediatric Subspecialty services all under one roof.

Our Services

A variety of services are provided by the  Maternal Fetal Medicine specialists at MCG Regional Perinatal Center. These include

• genetics counseling
• preconceptional counseling
• diabetes care
• management of the high-risk pregnancy

                                                  

 

                                                   

There is a board certified genetics counselor to assist in the management of conditions such as advanced maternal age, abnormal maternal serum screening for birth defects, and family history of a genetic disease.  All services are provided on both an inpatient and outpatient basis for the high-risk obstetrical patient.

Tests and Procedures

There are multiple procedures the physicians utilize to manage the high-risk pregnancy. These procedures include:

• diagnostic or targeted ultrasound,
• nuchal translucency
• fetal heart rate monitoring
• doppler  flow studies
• fetal echocardiography.
• Invasive fetal diagnostic studies
• amniocentesis
• percutaneous umbilical blood sampling
• intrauterine fetal transfusion.