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Center for Prenatal Evaluation Meet Our Team Locations Contact Information Request an Apppointment     Email This Page Print This Page           Center for Prenatal Evaluation The Center for Prenatal Evaluation at Children's National Medical Center provides advanced care for fetuses with known or suspected abnormalities. The Center offers consultation with renowned specialists representing a wide range of disciplines, access to revolutionary technologies and an extensive, compassionate support network for families of a high-risk fetus. The Center for Prenatal Evaluation is the only program of its type within the Washington-Baltimore region. Since its inception in 1989, the Center has worked closely with hundreds of families and their physicians to improve outcomes in pregnancies identified with malformations and genetic disorders. The Center for Prenatal Care is a family-centered program. It offers access to all the pediatric specialists at Children’s National Medical Center and is the starting point for a continuum of care that extends from prenatal evaluation through infancy and childhood and beyond. The Center sees approximately 400 patients each year, employing the most advanced diagnostic imaging techniques, fetal testing and treatments. Communication and collaboration are central to successful outcomes. With that in mind, the patient’s primary obstetric care providers and perinatologists receive written and telephone reports with specific recommendations to help supplement their patient’s ongoing care. The Children’s team works with the family and their obstetrician and perinatologist to plan for appropriate prenatal, delivery and postnatal services, ensuring a seamless continuum of care. The Fetal Care Team and Prenatal Follow-up Clinic are an integral part of the Center for Prenatal Evaluation. The Fetal Care Team draws on the coordinated expertise of a large, diverse group of medical specialists from several pediatric subspecialties. The Fetal Care Team meets regularly to discuss management options and to provide families and their physicians with a coordinated recommended plan of treatment. The multidisciplinary Center for Prenatal Evaluation Prenatal Follow-up Clinic, allows for close monitoring of children identified prenatally with birth defects. The clinic features consultation with specialists from Neurology, Development/Child Psychology, Nutrition, and other disciplines as necessary. Back to Top