General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital is open, and we continue to schedule appointments. We will do our best to minimize impact on our beneficiaries who need health care during the shutdown. Your health and well-being remain our highest priority. No medical or dental appointments or procedures have been canceled. All ancillary services (pharmacy, laboratory, radiology) remain operational. Please call 866-299-4234 to schedule or cancel appointments. For questions about TRICARE during the shutdown, please visit www.tricare.mil/shutdown.

Health Services

Gynecology Services

Surgical

  • Hysterectomy (abdominal, vaginal, minimally invasive)
  • Sterilization (permanent: tubal ligation, tubal removal)
  • Endometrial ablation
  • Chronic pelvic pain treatment
  • Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP) 

Clinical

  • Well Woman Exam (yearly exams) 
  • Menstrual complains, heavy or irregular bleeding
  • Limited OB/GYN ultrasound
  • Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) test & treatment
  • Sexual assault follow-up
  • Pap smear 
  • Colposcopy
  • Chronic pelvic pain treatment
  • Female Sexual Dysfunction
  • Menopausal complaints and post-menopausal bleeding
  • Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
  • Contraception management, including Intrauterine devices (IUD), Nexplanon

Office Procedures

  • Pap smear
  • Colposcopy
  • Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)
  • Endometrial biopsy
  • Saline sonogram
  • IUD insertion and removal 
  • Nexplanon insertion and removal 
  • Pessary fitting
  • Simple cystometrics
  • Hysterosalpingogram (HSG)
  • Incision and drainage/ catheter placement of Bartholin’s cyst 
  • Injection of pelvic floor muscles for pain

Services not Provided

  • Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)
  • In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
  • Infertility testing and treatment

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a “normal period?”

  • Happens monthly – every 24-38 days can be considered “monthly”
  • Normal menstrual bleeding lasts from 4.5-8 days
  • Volume of blood is less than or equal to 80mL (or bleeding that does not interfere with physical, emotion, social well-being or quality of life)
  • Occurs at fairly regular intervals, with some slight variation – less than 9 days variation from month to month

What types of birth control do you offer?

  • Pills
  • IUDs
  • Injections
  • Patches
  • Vaginal rings
  • Nexplanon
  • Sterilization

What sort of problems can you evaluate or treat at GLWACH?

  • Well woman exam, Pap smears, breast exams – routine examination
  • Menstrual complaints, heavy or irregular bleeding
  • Pelvic pain
  • Contraception, Family Planning
  • Sexually Transmitted Disease test & treatment
  • Female urinary or fecal incontinence
  • Hormone replacement therapy
  • Sexual assault follow-up
  • Basic infertility work-up
  • Basic infertility treatment (oral medications for ovulation induction only)
  • Surgical consultation and follow-up
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