Edgerton Woman's Health Center (formerly known as Maternal Health Center. Inc.) is dedicated to providing quality women’s health care through medical service, education and referrals. Commitment is made up of dedication, expertise, and service, and the Edgerton Woman's Health Center of Davenport embodies all of these qualities. Edgerton Woman's Health Center (EWHC) was begun in 1972 out of the prenatal program, and the Visiting Nurse Association. Also, for the first time an organization was developed for distribution of public family planning services in Davenport. With its staff of over 50 trained employees, the agency is committed to providing non-profit prenatal care to the greater Quad-Cities community, and offers a wide variety of nutrition services, such as the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)program in Scott County. Over 4,000 women, infants and children were advised and cared for in 1999 through this educational nutrition program. More than $2,000,000 for milk, baby formula, and cereal etc. are provided to low income residents. EWHC provides care and education for thousands of patients a year, including services such as general gynecology and gynecological surgery, cancer screening and follow up services, sexually transmitted disease screening and treatment, male and female sterilization, and genetic and infertility counseling. These services are provided with the belief that every person deserves the education and treatment that they need. Raising healthy children is also very important to the EWHC staff. Obstetricians,certified nurse midwives, a health educator, a social worker, nurses, and registered dieticians are all available on site to help with prenatal through post partum care, as well as nutrition and adoption counseling. EWHC has a proven track record of serving almost 6,000 people with family planning in 1999 and is proud of delivering more than 500 babies in the Quad-Cities community. Not only those who need direct personal services from EWHC are benefiting from its commitment. Over 200 health education presentations were made in 1999 to local churches, schools, civic organizations, social service committees, and several health care concern task forces, with a major focus on teen pregnancy prevention. This translates to over 5,000 people who participated in health education opportunities. This proves that EWHC is working hard to address current needs of the people of the Quad Cities community as well as educate for the future.

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