Obstetrics Patient Resources

Scheduling Appointments & Communicating with Our Office

EliseAI – 24/7 Scheduling & Patient Communication

Premier Women’s Care uses EliseAI, an AI-supported platform designed to provide patients with convenient scheduling and communication support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Elise helps streamline scheduling, improve response times, and reduce unnecessary wait times.

In addition to scheduling assistance, Elise can help patients submit secure messages regarding callbacks, results, and other care-related inquiries. Elise is intended to support our staff—not replace the personal connections our patients value. Patients may still request live assistance when needed, although we encourage patients to try Elise’s convenient capabilities first.

athenaPatient App

Stay connected with Premier Women’s Care through the athenaPatient app, giving patients convenient access to their patient portal while on the go.

After downloading the app, patients can add Premier Women’s Care as their care center and select their servicing provider to complete setup. The app provides another convenient way to access available portal features and stay connected with the practice.

Once you have had your first visit, you will have access to our Patient Portal, through which you can schedule appointments, get lab results and other information from your medical record, and communicate with our staff, including your clinician. You can also pay your bill online in the Patient Portal. We recommend that you set up your account as soon as you can.

Your First Visit: What To Expect

Confirmation of Pregnancy / Early Prenatal Care

After a positive home pregnancy test, patients are encouraged to contact our office promptly to schedule a confirmation of pregnancy visit. This visit is used to evaluate early pregnancy development and determine the appropriate next steps for prenatal care. For most patients, the ideal time for this appointment is around 7–8 weeks gestation, unless earlier evaluation is recommended by a treating physician based on clinical history.

Timely prenatal care allows our team to establish care, review medical history, discuss recommended testing, and plan for important screenings and evaluations that may be time-sensitive during the first trimester.

The confirmation of pregnancy visit includes an ultrasound to establish your due date and ensure that the pregnancy is healthy.

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing & Genetic Carrier Screening | Florida Woman Care Laboratory

Pruebas Prenatales No Invasivas y Detección de Portadores Genéticos | Laboratorio Florida Woman Care

Subsequent Appointments

New OB Appointment

Your next visit will be the longer “new OB appointment.” You will meet with a financial counselor who specializes in pregnancy billing. You will be interviewed by one of our OB Coordinators. She will obtain your health history, past obstetrical history, and your family history. The OB Coordinator will review education materials, medications and discuss specialty testing that can be done during your pregnancy. She will give you information about pediatricians, childbirth classes and hospital registration. Your lab work will also be done at this appointment.

Ongoing Appointments

For the remainder of the pregnancy low risk patients will be seen every 4 weeks until 28 weeks. Then appointments with be about every 2 weeks. You will have another ultrasound to check the anatomy of your baby at 20-22 weeks. The last month of the pregnancy appointments will be weekly until delivery. (Appointments are scheduled at the discretion of the care obstetrician or midwife). At these appointments your obstetrician or midwife will be checking your urine, vital signs and the fetal heart rate to ensure that you and baby are healthy.

Postpartum Appointments

After your delivery you will be scheduled for 1 or 2 postpartum visits. At these visits your obstetrician or midwife will check to see how you are physically and emotionally recovering from your delivery. You may also discuss breastfeeding issues and future contraception options.

Remember all scheduled appointments are important for you to keep in order for your care obstetrician or midwife to provide you with the best obstetrical care. Please call ahead if you need to change appointments. Please note that some testing we provide is time sensitive and must be done within a certain time-frame. Lab results will be reviewed by your care obstetrician or midwife at your following appointment.

When Pregnancies Require Extra Monitoring

Bloomlife – Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)

Premier Women’s Care partners with Bloomlife to provide remote patient monitoring services for patients managing gestational diabetes or hypertension during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

Depending on the condition being monitored, patients use a connected blood glucose meter or blood pressure cuff at home as directed by their provider. Readings are securely transmitted to the care team through the Bloomlife Connects remote monitoring platform, eliminating the need for handwritten logs and allowing providers to review trends, identify concerning changes, and determine when additional follow-up may be needed between office visits.

For patients with gestational diabetes, regular blood sugar readings help the care team evaluate glucose patterns and determine how well blood sugar is being managed. For patients with hypertension, home blood pressure monitoring provides important information that can help identify concerning changes associated with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, including preeclampsia, which can develop during pregnancy or after delivery.

This added visibility between visits can support more timely follow-up, treatment adjustments when appropriate, and more informed clinical decision-making, while making home monitoring simpler and more convenient for patients.

Hospital Coverage

While you may see any obstetrician or midwife in our practice for your routine prenatal care, our obstetricians and midwives deliver only at specific hospitals. You may wish to select your hospital for delivery based on where your obstetrician or midwife delivers after hours and on weekends. There is a designated obstetrician or midwife on-call for Fort Myers and Cape Coral every night of the week.

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