Rural Health Center:

Lifetime Family Care For Women and Children of All Ages Hospital Delivery and Birthing Center

Appointments are available for women of all ages for comprehensive health interview, physical exam, needed screenings and tests including blood work, pap smears and referrals. Then as an established client you may continue health care services and follow up for a lifetime.

Services include yearly exams, birth control, gyn problems, STD testing perimenopausal and menopausal symptom management, chronic stable disease management and acute illness. Our providers are available 24 hours a day for emergency consultation and referral.

From birth through the teenage years, children are offered comprehensive health services including well child exams, screenings, vaccines, and acute illness care. Respectful, gentle care is our goal for each child exam encounter. The Nurse Practitioner will give you time to ask questions about your child's or teen's condition, growth, development, and behavior. Parenting issues guidance is available and we encourage you to discuss concerns with your provider.

Complete and comprehensive maternity services with a personal focus and time for questions is the hallmark of Nurse Midwifery Care. Each woman has her own hopes, fears, stress, and strengths that she brings with her into pregnancy. Our goal is to assist each woman to achieve her best physical, emotional, and spiritual health as she makes the transition to motherhood.

We also have the delivery options:

• Out-of-hospital delivery in the Birthing Suite
• In-Hospital delivery at Orange Park Med Center's Newly remodeled Unit

We provide a comfortable and private birthing suite for the laboring mother to experience birth and the important first hours in quiet and closeness. Birth Center delivery is offered as a birthing option to low risk mothers that want a truly personal and spiritual birthing experience. Birth Center Birth has been shown to be a safe and satisfying delivery option for most women that are expected to have a vaginal birth.

Family Nurse Practitioners and Certified Nurse Midwives provide the health services and Birth & Beyond. Educated in both Nursing and Advanced Practice, they hold Master's Degrees from the University of Florida in Family Practice and Midwifery. Three physicians provide guidance and backup services for the practice. We are very grateful to these physicians for their expertise in Gynecology, Obstetrics, Pediatrics and Primary Care of Women.

Anita Lenas: MSN, CNM & FNP

is the owner and full time clinical services provider at Birth & Beyond. She holds a Double Master's Degree from UF in both Family Practice and Nurse Midwifery.

Denise Schentrup: ARNP, FNP

is an Assistant Professor at UF where she teaches part time in the Nurse Practitioner program. She provides part time clinical services for Birth & Beyond at this time.

Heather D. Hottenstein: CNM, ARNP

is a graduate of The Frontier School of Midwifery, and Family Nursing based in Hyden, Kentucky. She recently relocated to Florida from several years with the York Health System in Pennsylvania. She provides full time services for Birth & Beyond.