About this Clinic
At the Family Planning Clinic, part of the
Women's Health Care Center, our health-care professionals provides individual care in a respectful, supportive, and friendly environment.
The UW Family Planning Clinic
- provides individual care in a respectful, supportive, and friendly environment.
- offers comprehensive family planning services for women who seek birth control options, elective abortion, treatment for miscarriage or fetal demise or surgical sterilization.
- provides family planning services to medically complicated patients who need expert advice, such as women with heart disease, cancer, auto-immune disease, kidney disease, bleeding disorders, pulmonary embolism, and seizure disorders.
- promotes research and resident physician education in the field of family planning.
- is integrated into the UW Women's Health Care Center (WHCC) at Roosevelt; confidentiality around what services you are accessing will be strictly maintained.
The UW Family Planning Clinic provides:
- Birth Control - all types –pills, patch, ring, Depo Provera Injection, implants and IUDs (this includes Mirena and Paragard IUDs, Implanon)
- High Risk Contraception - patients with complex or chronic medical conditions
- Emergency Contraception - "Plan B"
- Pregnancy Testing and Options Counseling
- Medical Abortion - the "Abortion Pill"
- First and Second Trimester Surgical Abortion Services
- Sterilization (tubal ligation)
- Medical & Surgical Management of Miscarriage
- Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) management
If you require a termination of pregnancy procedure in the first trimester of pregnancy, this often can be done in one day without a pre-procedure visit. If you require a termination of pregnancy procedure in the second trimester, you will need one or possibly two pre-procedural visits for cervical preparation.
The UW Family Planning Clinic accepts most insurance, DSHS (medical coupons) and self-payment. Patients should talk to their health insurance plans about eligibility and benefits.
Driving Directions
The UW Medical Center-Roosevelt clinics are located at 4245 and 4225 Roosevelt Way N.E. The two red brick buildings are a few blocks northwest of the main medical center; 4245 (UWMC-Roosevelt II) is the northernmost of the two buildings. See
map.
From Interstate 5:
- Exit at Northeast 45th Street and head east. If you are traveling I-5 northbound, turn right at the exit ramp onto 45th. If you are traveling on I-5 southbound, turn left onto 45th.
- From the freeway, travel four blocks and turn right onto Roosevelt Way, a one-way street.
- Continue two blocks. The buildings are on the right.
From Interstate 405:
- Take exit 14 (State Route 520), heading west to Seattle across the Lake Washington bridge.
- Merge onto Interstate 5 northbound and exit at Northeast 45th Street.
- Turn right at the exit ramp onto Northeast 45th, and travel four blocks.
- Turn right again, onto Roosevelt Way. The buildings will be on your right side, about two blocks down.
Free shuttle service is available between the medical center and the two Roosevelt buildings.