Dr. Sweeney is a gynecologist at Piedmont OB-GYN, a group practice of women's doctors on Collier Road near Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. She lists menopause care and sexual wellness among her main interests, along with fibroids and minimally invasive surgery. She spent years with Kaiser Permanente Georgia before joining this practice. The practice offers hormone therapy by vaginal, oral or skin routes and schedules regular follow-up visits to check how treatment is working. Care is in the office, and the practice bills insurance for visits.
Premier Care for Women is a gynecology practice of six physicians in one Atlanta office and is part of the Northside Hospital network. It does no obstetrics, so the whole office is built around gynecologic care across a woman's life, and its services page covers menopausal care through all four stages along with hormone replacement therapy. The same office does its own in-office procedures such as colposcopy, endometrial ablation and LEEP, and handles hysterectomy, endometrial biopsy and hysteroscopy as outpatient surgery. Ultrasounds are run in the office by a certified technician, and results come back with a treatment plan within about ten days. Becker went to medical school at Emory, did her residency at Pennsylvania Hospital, and has been board certified in obstetrics and gynecology since 1994. Each of the six physicians records a short personal video on her profile, so a patient can see and hear her before booking.
Obstetrics and Gynecology of Atlanta is a fourteen-physician practice with a nurse midwifery service, working from four offices on the north side of the city, and it admits patients only to Northside Hospital. Wootten is one of its benign gynecologic surgeons, operating laparoscopically and with the da Vinci robot, and the practice names the MonaLisa Touch vaginal laser for vaginal atrophy among the procedures Wootten performs. The practice menopause page argues hard against compounded bioidentical hormones and names the FDA approved estradiol products it prescribes instead. Its FAQ also answers what to do about hot flashes for a woman who cannot take estrogen, naming three low dose antidepressants. The office runs its own lab on set hours by appointment, and established gynecology patients can book an annual visit online, though anyone who also needs a mammogram or a bone density scan has to call.
