Women’s and Children’s Health

NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen Hospital provides exemplary obstetrical and gynecological services. We provide comprehensive care for over 2,400 women before, during and after childbirth each year. For labor and delivery, we offer a family-centered approach to care—from the moment the patient enters the labor and delivery suite until she is discharged home with her baby. We also offer women in the community treatment for a full range of gynecological conditions.

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has more than a century of experience in providing excellence in women’s healthcare. We offer a wide scope of services that address every healthcare phase of a woman’s lifetime, from pre-reproductive care through the childbearing and post-menopausal years.

The Center for Women’s Reproductive Care (CWRC), one of the first fertility programs in the New York area, is a national leader in treating women over the age of 40. We care for around 1,000 women a year, over half of whom achieve a successful pregnancy. The Center for Women’s Health boasts exceptional medical teams, with experts in over 15 medical subspecialties—including Egg Donor, Male Infertility and Reproductive Surgery programs.

Advanced infertility care at CWRC involves an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, social workers and embryologists, all of whom are committed to high-quality care and research. These attributes have made us one of the largest, longest-standing and most successful fertility centers in the nation.

The Sloane Hospital for Women is the obstetrics and gynecology service within NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital. Many hospitals are only able to treat high-acuity mothers or high-acuity infants. We are equipped to care for both at the same time. We are a New York State Department of Health designated Regional Perinatal Center, dedicated to providing the highest level of expertise to care for women with high-risk pregnancies.

Our Level 4 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is a leading center for the management of critically ill newborn infants. We use the latest technology and therapies available to offer the smallest of our patients the best chance for survival. About 70% of our NICU patients are born at the Sloane Hospital for Women, while 30% of infants are transferred from other hospitals. Every year, hundreds of newborn babies a year are transferred to our NICU from hospitals in the Greater New York metropolitan region.

Our NICU nurses, who have received the highest nursing team award from Advance for Nurses magazine, are experienced and highly trained in a range of medical, technological and surgical interventions.

The Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center is staffed by specialists in all areas of women’s health with a special emphasis on preventive medicine, nutrition, breast cancer, osteoporosis, menopause and infectious disease. In addition, the Center for Reproductive Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center treats more than 1,200 couples annually, with success rates nearly double the national average.

Our 50-bed, Level 4 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides a wide range of newborn services specially tailored for individualized care of extremely premature neonates and newborn infants requiring medical or surgical intervention, in a family-centered environment. Nurses collaborate with attending neonatatologists, neonatal fellows, pediatric residents and a team of neonatal nurse practitioners. In addition, nursing specialists work with a full complement of pediatric sub-specialty consultants to help transfer neonates from multiple hospitals in the Greater New York region.