FAYETTEVILLE -- Washington Regional, in partnership with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has opened the Washington Regional Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic. The clinic, located inside the Women and Infants Center on the Washington Regional campus in Fayetteville, brings the expertise of UAMS' maternal fetal medicine specialists to patients in Northwest Arkansas.

The Washington Regional Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic provides assessment, diagnosis, and management of high-risk pregnancies, including problems associated with multiple births, heart disease, gestational diabetes, physical and genetic fetal abnormalities, and other conditions. The clinic is staffed by four maternal fetal medicine physician specialists from UAMS and a local nurse practitioner: - Nafisa Dajani, MD - Dawn Hughes, MD - Everett Magann, MD - Adam Sandlin, MD - Alissa Scherer, APRN.

This collaboration provides Northwest Arkansas women with high-risk pregnancies access to the largest team of board-certified maternal fetal medicine specialists in the state according to Washington Regional President and CEO Larry Shackelford.