High-Risk Pregnancies

The maternal-fetal medicine team at Scott & White's Division of Women's Health Services is dedicated to providing exceptional perinatal and neonatal care. Our team includes two maternal-fetal medicine specialists, a highly trained support staff, maternal-fetal nurses, consultative subspecialists and a team of neonatologists to care for the baby upon arrival. Scott & White is a Level III facility.

With close to 50 years combined experience in maternal-fetal medicine, Steven R. Allen, M.D. and Richard O. Jones, M.D. are dedicated to providing innovative and skillful care to each patient.

Their patient care emphases include:

• High-risk and complicated pregnancies
• Utilizing innovative diagnostic and therapeutic technologies and procedures
• Pre-conception counseling and evaluation
• Multidisciplinary approach

Our maternal-fetal medicine specialists are highly experienced, seeing more than 1,600 patients and referrals each year. We serve as the primary referral facility for the surrounding 21 counties.

Scott & White's neonatal nursery provides tertiary neonatal care for up to 56 newborns. The obstetrics, maternal-fetal medicine and neonatology programs collaborate to provide a multidisciplinary approach for high-risk mothers and babies.

Specialized services provided by Maternal Fetal Medicine include:

• Comprehensive ultrasonography
• Antenatal diagnosis
• Amniocentesis
• First trimester screening
• Maternal serum screening for birth defects and chromosomal abnormalities (aneuploidy)
• Percutaneous umbilical cord sampling (PUBS)
• Fetal echocardiography
• Doppler assessment of the fetus
• Fetal blood transfusion
• Genetic counseling
• Antepartum fetal assessment
  • Biophysical profile
  • Nonstress test
  • Amniotic fluid index
  • Oxytocin contraction stress test
• High-risk pregnancy evaluation and management
  • Diabetes
  • Preterm labor
  • Recurrent miscarriage
  • Cardiac disease
  • Hypertension
  • Preeclampsia
  • Multiple gestation
  • Incompetent cervix
  • Birth defects

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