Welcome to Naval Hospital . Bremerton .
I'm Lieutenant Commander Jennifer Sza ,
one of the certified nurse midwives .
You're standing here today with
Lieutenant Commander Tara mccluskey ,
one of our staff obgyn physicians and
first and foremost , we really want to
congratulate you on your pregnancy . Dr
mccluskey would like to tell you more
about our new obstetrics patient
Navigator process that we have started
for you . Hi , I'm Lieutenant Commander
Tara mccluskey . I'm one of the obgyn
here at Naval Hospital . Little
Bremerton . I'm here to talk to you
about the Obstetric patient Navigator
system . The purpose of the obstetric
patient Navigator is to hold your hand
through the process of getting seen
with a community Obgan provider here
out in town . Um From the first step of
getting your referral to actually
walking into the door of the OBGYN
clinic . We are gonna be here for you .
Step of the way , Lieutenant Commander
Sza . Do you want to tell us the first
part of the process ? So the first step
in that process is going to be when you
get , you're at home and you get that
positive home pregnancy test , you're
going to reach out to your primary care
manager . This could be a family
physician or a nurse practitioner or
perhaps you do not know who your
primary care doctor is . Please reach
out to the phone number on screen or if
you're new to the region . And once you
are able to contact that primary care
doctor , they're going to be able to
put in a referral for obstetric care to
the region . To the community providers .
Referrals for prenatal care can take 3
to 5 business days for processing . You
can always check the status of your
referral or see which OBG provider
you've been referred to by either
calling the Federal Health Services
phone number or create an account on
the tri care West website . During this
process , our OB patient Navigator is
going to be in touch with you answering
any questions . Um making sure that
there is a smooth handoff between that
first referral and positive prenatal
test till you walk into the door of
that Ogan office . If you have received
the referral , the referral has been
approved and you still have not heard
from your Ogan provider . We do
recommend that you contact them
directly to schedule that appointment .
You can expect your first visit to be
around 10 to 12 weeks of your pregnancy
if you cannot get seen
around that time frame or if you're new
to the area a little bit further along
in your pregnancy and again , are
having a hard time being seen by an OB
provider within a month of your last ob
visit . We here at the Ogan Clinic can
see you can bridge that gap in care to
make sure that you are healthy . Your
pregnancy is healthy um until you can
be seen out with an OBGYN provider and
we can kind of provide that smooth hand
off to them . Lieutenant Commander Swa
Are there any other services you'd like
to tell everyone about ? Yes , thank
you . So , thank you for again
reviewing the Ob patient Navigator
process . I really appreciate that .
And so we do offer other services . We
have our walk in contraception clinic
that's going to be every Wednesday from
eight o'clock in the morning until 11
and then it reopens at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
We also have walk in cervical cancer
screenings every Friday . And that's
going to be from eight o'clock in the
morning until 12 o'clock in the
afternoon . And so just for everyone to
know this is these walk in services ,
they're open to all beneficiaries . So
please feel free to walk in on those
dates and times again . Congratulations
on your pregnancy . Don't hesitate to
reach out to the clinic with any
questions and concerns about this
process .