High Risk Obstetrical (OB) Satellite Clinics

The High-Risk OB Satellite Clinic Program is funded through the Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers (RPICC) Program. This program was established because of inadequate transportation resources and geographic distances of more than 100 miles limiting access to a RPICC. A team, consisting of a perinatologist, nurse, ultrasonographer, and a genetic counselor, travel from five RPICC centers (Sacred Heart Hospital, University of Florida, Bayfront Medical Center, University of South Florida, and Arnold Palmer Hospital), to surrounding counties and provide high-risk OB services to women referred from community providers.

Currently, twelve clinics are funded at the following locations:
 

The two primary goals of this program are:

(1) At least 80% of high-risk pregnant women are able to deliver in their community, and

(2) Less than 10% of the infants born to these women will require Level III care.