The Clinic!

Reproductive healthcare for women, men, and teens
Mondays 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Wednesdays noon to 6 p.m.
120 Richardson St., Suite D, Grass Valley (near the South Pine Cafe)
No appointment necessary!

A great many people equate "choice" and "reproductive healthcare" with abortion - and they are wrong. Reproductive healthcare includes pap smears and pelvics, birth control,... and prostate exams. Reproductive healthcare is for everyone. And everyone should have choices.

The Other A Word: If you're pregnant, adoption is one of your choices. Adoption Choices of Northern California is a program offering information, counseling, advocacy and support to all those involved in the adoption process, so that each adoption is imbued with dignity, and each participant is treated with caring and respect.
adoptionchoices@womenshealthspecialists.org , www.cawhs.org

Grass Valley Teen Clinic
Services at The Clinic! are available to women, men, and teens from age 12 and up. Or you can visit the Miners Family Health Clinic; Miners however no longer has specific teen clinic days.

Payment at The Clinic!
The majority of our clients qualify for Family PACT, a California family planning program which covers the cost of most reproductive healthcare. WHS will work with each woman individually on a care plan so that even if they may not qualify for Family PACT, she may still qualify for free or low cost services after speaking with the WHS phone counseling department. In the unlikely case of not qualifying for any program, WHS has a fee schedule which would apply.

Services

• Sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing for women and men, of Chlamydia,Gonorrhea, herpes (if the client has a lesion at the time), HPV, HIV, Syphilis, and vaginitis for women
• STI treatment of the above infections, except for Syphilis and HIV, which treatmentsare specialized and are referred to an outside agency as recommended by the CDC
• HIV/AIDS testing for women and men
• Birth control, many kinds, including The Pill, IUD, Depo Provera, Nuvaring, the Patch, Cervical Cap, Diaphragm, Vaginal Film, Condoms, and Contraceptive Foam
• Pregnancy testing – the results are given the same day
• Pap smear and pelvic
• Breast exams and Mammogram referrals
• Abortion referrals. WHS offers both medical and surgical abortions at their other facilities, and coordinates rides to the appointments through ACCESS. They offer referrals for any abortion beyond their scope
• Adoption referrals. WHS operates Adoption Choices of Northern California, a program designed to give birth mothers control of their adoption process.
• Pre-natal information
• Health information and education counseling, including options counseling for pregnant women; options counseling for birth control; self-help information; and health information counseling for HIV/AIDS and all forms of STIs. WHS does not provide mental health counseling or positive HIV/AIDS counseling and refers to an appropriate licensed therapist or County program. Self-esteem issues can be the tip of the iceberg of a mental health issue and so are also referred to an appropriate agency. Many women have visited a WHS clinic thinking that they needed some sort of mental health counseling, but after consultation with WHS staff realize that what they actually needed was unbiased and medically accurate information from a non-judgmental source.

HPV is not currently offered at this time but WHS will make referrals to appropriate providers. The typical cost of a three-shot vaccine is $120 per shot or $360 per series, a prohibitive cost for most. To read about HPV, visit this NIH (National Institutes of Health) webpage.

Professional clinic services provided byWomen’s Health Specialists

530.274.3331 this number will be answered by clinic staff during clinic hours; at all other times, it will go to voice mail and will be retrieved at least weekly.

800.714.8151 for immediate questions or concerns call this Women's Health Specialists hotline

.530.272.3467 this is a 24-hour hotline for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalition: DVSAC was formed to offer crisis intervention and safehousing services to the victims of domestic violence and their families in Nevada County.

Below is a chart showing typical services for August 2009.

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The Clinic!
Mondays 10:30 to 5 and
Wednesdays noon to 6.
No appointment necessary!

Our clinic on Richardson St. can see both women and men, age 12 and up, or you can visit:
The Miner's Family Health Center who also sees teens but no longer has specific teen hours. Sometimes known as the Grass Valley Teen Clinic.

Don't be confused by a fake clinic, or "crisis pregnancy centers." They are anti-choice organizations. Watch this video, linked on YouTube, Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A Special Report and read a short article on the local CPC. Some CPCs may be still receiving federal funding - tell Congress to stop federal funding of these fake clinics!

Citizens for Choice now a part of CCRF, California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom.

Are you pregnant and need a ride to your counseling or abortion appointment? ACCESS can help!

Questions about HPV (human papillomavirus)? This Nantional Cancer Institute Fact Sheet is a good source!

Abstinence-only education why you should be concerned