OB/GYN Emergency Department
Willow Creek Women's Hospital was first to offer a 24/7 OB/GYN emergency department (OB ED) in Northwest Arkansas. This service enhances patient safety and care by ensuring that a board-certified physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) is in the hospital and available at all times, 24 hours a day, seven days of the week and every day of the year.
Because of the hospitalist program, hospital-based board-certified OB/GYNs are available around-the-clock to focus on providing care for patients in the hospital setting, including consistent care to patients in the hospital as well as emergent care to those arriving in labor and delivery.
Knowledgeable Emergency Care
Willow Creek wants expectant mothers experiencing complications to be seen right away by a board-certified OB/GYN, who can provide care until the patient's own doctor can evaluate the mother and baby's condition. The hospitalist physicians work with your primary OB/GYN provider to give immediate care and help make decisions about hospital admission or discharge.
These dedicated OB/GYN physicians provide a number of services, including supporting the care of high-risk pregnancy patients and delivering babies for patients who don't have an obstetrician.
Why might an expectant mother-to-be come to the OB ED?
- Concern about pre-term labor
- Pelvic pain
- Abnormal vaginal bleeding
- Urological conditions, such as bladder infections or urinary tract infections
- Conditions related to high-risk pregnancy (example: high blood pressure)
Urgent Gynecologic Care Available
Additionally, patients can get an expedited assessment and treatment plan by a board-certified OB/GYN for urgent gynecologic (GYN) conditions, which can include pain or bleeding, post-operative GYN surgery complications or urological conditions.
Willow Creek Women's Hospital is located in Johnson, just off exit 69 of I-49.