Well-Woman Exams (Pap Smears)
Family Planning Associates Medical Group provides well-woman exams, including:
- Pap smears
- STI testing (genital warts/HPV, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomonas)
- Testing for vaginal infections (yeast vaginitis and bacterial vaginosis) and urinary tract infections.
We can provide prescriptions for birth control for those patients who have had a well-woman exam with us. If you have had an abortion with us and received a birth control prescription, you can make an appointment for your well-woman exam and we can continue your prescription.
About the Pap Smear
The pap smear is a screening test for cervical cancer. A speculum is inserted into the vagina to see the cervix and take a sample of cells with a brush. If a pap smear result is abnormal, it does not mean that you have cervical cancer. It means that further testing (HPV testing and/or colposcopy) should be done to determine what abnormality is present, if any. HPV, gonorrhea, chlamydia and trichomonas testing is performed with a cervical brush or swab, similar to a pap smear.
HIV, Syphilis, and Hepatitis
FPA does not provide screening tests for HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis. If you have no symptoms and have no reason to believe that you are infected, but wish to be screened anyway, you can donate blood at
Lifesource Blood Centers. This is a great way to do something good for someone else and to get the screening tests you want. Lifesource will contact you if you test positive.
