Women’s Health Clinic

The Women’s Health Clinic is an ancillary service of the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership that provides specialized medical and procedural care for female patients referred from EHHOP’s Medical Clinic. Similar to the EHHOP Medical clinic, patients are seen by a team composed of one Senior Clinician (3rd or 4th year medical student), one Junior Clinician (1st or 2nd year medical student), and a Mount Sinai Medical Center Attending who specializes in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Patients are referred to the Women's Health Clinic from the Medical Clinic for the following": 

  • Family planning/birth control counseling

  • Management of abnormal pap smears and colposcopy

  • Abnormal uterine bleeding counseling and management (including post-menopausal bleeding)

  • Endometrial biopsy 

  • Urinary incontinence

  • Long-acting reversible contraceptive placement and removal

  • Menopause symptom counseling and management

  • Pelvic pain 

  • Ovarian cyst evaluation and management

  • Uterine fibroids

  • Vulvar lesions'

  • Breast lesions, masses or pain

  • Family history of gynecologic malignancy

  • Referral for any gynecological conditions beyond the scope of Medical Clinic Attending 

Other services that can be provided: 

  • Sexually transmitted infection testing

  • Pap smear 

  • Pregnancy testing

  • Transvaginal /Pelvic Ultrasound

  • Referral to sub-specialty gynecologists

  • Referral for gynecologic surgery including tubal ligation/salpingectomy, hysterectomy