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Unique Reach

01 May 2012

We use this maxim to guide our Miscarriage Management Training Initiative (MMTI) work.  It's not only our ability to work in states like Oklahoma, South Carolina and Montana that make our reach unique, but our capacity to introduce office-based uterine evacuation using manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) into Catholic institutions, Federally Qualified Health Clinics (FQHC), military hospitals and settings where advanced practice nurses and physician assistants are permitted to provide comprehensive care. We prevail in settings that are not open to elective abortion, and we initiate conversations that would likely otherwise not take place.

Just last month we worked with a young family medicine physician whose relationship with the United States Military prevents her from offering comprehensive reproductive health care.  Despite a large patient population of females age 14-45, the association of MVA to elective abortion has limited her practice to exclude a full range of evidenced-based miscarriage management care.  Through systematic, multi-disciplinary instruction and values clarification exercises, we have begun a dialogue of acceptance in her practice setting.  Likewise, we have created training opportunities in elective abortion clinics for her to partake.  Through MMTI, she has connected with physicians in other military settings and word is spreading. The use of MVA for office- based miscarriage management will likely become a reality at this site sometime this summer.  Our teams are proud to have created this opportunity and many others like them. We look forward to continuing to expand our reach.