Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Planned Parenthood of North Texas opens 29th clinic in McKinney with express services
Agency’s new clinic located in one of nation’s fastest-growing cities
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MCKINNEY — Planned Parenthood of North Texas (PPNT) is providing Collin County residents with affordable reproductive health care – and Express services – at their newest clinic in McKinney, Texas. The city has been identified twice by the US Census Bureau as the country’s fastest-growing city.
Clinic information:
Planned Parenthood of North Texas, Inc.
1720 Eldorado Parkway, Suite 106
McKinney, Texas 75069
(972) 548-7482
The McKinney location is a full-service family planning clinic that provides two of the newest “Express” services PPNT is providing for its patients’ busy lives. HOPE, Hormonal Options without a Pelvic Exam, allows women who qualify to obtain hormonal birth control without a pelvic exam. “Pills Now, Pay Later” is a service that allows qualifying patients to get a year's worth of birth control pills in one visit, while PPNT charges their credit or debit card once or on a monthly basis. Express services have proved incredibly popular with PPNT patients.
“For years, McKinney residents have had limited options for affordable health care,” said Jim Roderick, PPNT President/CEO. “We are proud to serve insured, uninsured or Medicaid patients with accessible, high-quality, affordable care as we have for the last 73 years.”
Other services include breast and pelvic exams, cancer-screening Pap smears, mammography, high-blood pressure screening, diabetes screening, testing for sexually transmitted infections, emergency contraception, pregnancy testing, hormone-replacement therapy for mid-life women, colposcopy, cryotherapy, family planning education and appropriate medical and social-service referrals. Abortion services will not be provided at the clinic.
Appointment costs vary depending on the medical services requested by the patient. PPNT now operates 29 clinics serving 57 counties in North Texas, and is the largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the state and the sixth largest affiliate of 125 affiliates nationwide. In 2007, the affiliate’s network of clinics provided more than 88,000 clients with medical services through 245,000 visits.
Source: Planned Parenthood of North Texas
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Comments
Justin Smith Verified
Jim Roderick's quotes are ludicrous. So McKinney has limited options for health care? Well, it is good thing Planned Parenthood is around to help out all them po' folks. Are they offering dialysis? How about dental?
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Pavel Lishin Verified
Why are you surprised? It's news, and it's important. How is it not business? New place that sells stuff for money opens up. Tada.
And how is "family planning" not a valid medical service? If it was a low-cost dentist's office, would your comment end with "Are they offering dialysis? How about birth control?"
I am 110% for offering free birth control and the like to people who are already facing financial problems. They are the last people that need to be having surprise babies.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Would also free up monies to pay their car insurance since they won't be popping out unexpected babies.
Just sayin'.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Erin Rice Verified
I have used Planned Parenthood in the past because they offer a variety of GYN and health services and you can get appointments within the week, as opposed to waiting for more than a month at various other offices. It also costs a ton less. I have been both a poor grad student and a poor, unpaid employee at various points in my life, making this place a godsend during those times.
And, of course, even in those tough times, I was leaps and bounds better off than many in McKinney. If you are poor, why is it a bad thing to offer a low cost facility to receive health care? I only wish that other places, like dentists and general practitioners would open similar clinics in Collin County, where approximately 24,600 people are considered to be living in poverty (according to the 2000 census).
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Ashley Lyell Verified
I also have nothing but good things to say about Planned Parenthood. I went to them a few times when I had almost no money. The people there are extremely pleasant and willing to help in whatever way they can. I hope they can continue to open more clinics in other areas as well.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
interestedcitizen Anonymous
I agree with family planning, but I cannot understand why a graduate student isn't smart enough to do family planning without a free clinic. Can't you just wait a month to have sex, and if you simply can't wait, given that you believe in planning, as evidenced by your support for planned parenthood, can't you plan to have sex with a man who has the will to buy a pack of condoms at 50 cents each? I mean, if a dinner and a movie cost at least $30.00, why is 50 cents for a condom every once in a while such a stretch? Why would you give yourself to a man who (1) doesn't take you out and show you a good time and (2) doesn't care enough about you to provide the contraception? Do you think that little of yourself? Do you have no power or will to say no to a person who refuses to show you more respect?
And if you want more security, how about using your own off the shelf vaginal suppository or contraceptive jelly in addition to the condom you demand, not only for the sake of avoiding pregnancy, but of avoiding a potentially deadly disease?
Also, shouldn't a graduate student already have learned, not only about her natural rhythms to know when she's ovulating, but about her vaginal secretions that tell her almost 100% of the time when she's ovulating?
Maybe it's too much to expect a poor, struggling graduate student to know about the biology of reproduction. Maybe we should just excuse her and say she should have sex anytime she pleases, with no thought and no planning, if that makes her happy. If we want her to behave like that, why do we call it Family Planning?
There is more to natural family planning than just watching the calendar. One book, "Our Bodies, Ourselves" told all about it. There are ways to do family planning without altering our bodies chemically, and exposing ourselves to all of the cancers and health risks associated with dousing ourselves with hormones.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Since when does going to graduate school directly correlate with family planning? And why would a graduate student bother worrying about ovulation, condoms, etc if there's a free clinic offering birth control?
I'd sooner a graduate student utilize available resources and free up time to study (and make the sex). Serious high horse ITT.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Pavel Lishin Verified
Wow. The rhythm method, eh? I'm glad that was the first thing you wrote, now I'm free to disregard pretty much any opinion you might have on any topic whatsoever.
By the way, they provide more than just the birth control pill. But I guess if you're a fan of the "only have sex at this time of the month" method as a way of sure-fire baby critter prevention, your advice to someone who might have cervical cancer is probably "walk it off."
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Erin Rice Verified
In my comment I point out that Planned Parenthood provides various health care services. As the article states, they offer "breast and pelvic exams, cancer-screening Pap smears, mammography, [and] high-blood pressure screening" in addition to providing birth control and a range of other services for women AND men.
I think it's unfair for you to assume that I only went to this clinic to get birth control because my lust for random men was too much for me to handle otherwise. It sounds as though your stereotypes concerning Planned Parenthood as an organization are coloring your response to my observations.
On a side note, yes, I should be "excused" to have sex anytime I please with a consenting partner. It's my right as a human being. It just so happens that I do think about the consequences beforehand and take the necessary precautions to guard again disease and pregnancy. I was lucky enough to learn about these things from my parents and teachers before becoming a graduate student. Thankfully, there are organizations like Planned Parenthood for those people who do not get that education from other places.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Rawlins Gilliland Verified
I'm a "graduate student" of sex. Began studying very early and cracked the books every chance I got. Finally got my diploma; a box of Trojans. My friends who dropped out of school before graduation..... without getting their degrees...... were rewarded with STDs. Including AIDS. Which killed a few heterosexual and homosexual friends alike....while others are on toxic cocktails for the remainder of their compromised lives. The lucky ones 'only' got Chlamydia, herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis, chronic warts. Or ‘unwanted’ pregnancies. Followed by occasional abortions. See the value of higher education?
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Tracy Yost Verified
When I was "that age", planned parenthood was the only place to receive any kind of second-hand sex education, oh and also, the contraceptives. I'm glad to see they're still around and providing a valuable service to the community.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Lisa Lawrence Merritt Verified
I love when people post about birth control and yack on about this topic and never want to admit that they themselves were probably "surprise" babies!
If your mothers had gone to Planned Parenthood then some of you wouldn't be here to post. LMAO!
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Jason Rice Verified
Wow. "Planned Parenthood" still gets a rise out of people. Good to know.
I don't know if it's just good PR on their part or what, but when I hear PP I think, "someone to talk to" and "Free/Cheap GYN" because they were about the first organization on the planet to say "Hey these folks (poor, scared, or children of knee-jerk zealots) have lots of scary stuff inside them that can go wrong and nowhere to go. Let's help."
I'm with Yost. Glad they're there.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Catawba Anonymous
From the Pegasus weekly email: "Also coming soon in Collin County ... a new Planned Parenthood (so you know where Pegasus staffers will be cruisin' this weekend)."
Don't know why you all would want to do that. But while you're there why don't you poll the customers and ask them what kind of parenthood they were planning this visit? Or maybe we could just recognize that PP's name is an anachronism from days gone by, and that today it's just another mass-market profit-making business -- focused on the lower end of the economic demographic, sort of like payday lenders.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Clay213 Anonymous
So uhm, Erin, are you doin anything later?
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Obviously she's doing random dudes in the streets. Otherwise, family planning wouldn't even be an issue.
Right place, wrong time clay.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Pavel Lishin Verified
Catawba: What's your point?
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Holly Morgan Verified
A "mass-market profit-making business -- focused on the lower end of the economic demographic," spoken like a true humanitarian. I'll bet you, sir, are out there helpin' the people of the 'lower end of the eco demo' all the time.
Do you read the newspaper? Texas has the "highest rate of teen births" in the whole country, and also the highest rate of a 2nd teen birth.
That's a public health and tax burden that effects all of us Texans, regardless of demographic.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Kay Anonymous
Scott Doyle,
Thanks for bringing that up....I didn't get the connection to a graduate student either.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
DC Anonymous
I totally endorse the 'have sex anytime she pleases just to make her happy' campaign.
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
CastleHills Anonymous
InterestedCitizen--sex can be fun...really....you don't need anyone's permission to enjoy it, and we won't tell on you either....
I'd like to know where you get those magic condoms that never fall off and never break....
1 year, 5 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
greekfire Anonymous
Information is good
http://40dayprayervigil.blogspot.com/...
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
greekfire Anonymous
http://www.priestsforlife.org/index.htm
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Pavel Lishin Verified
Didn't realize that Christians were against medical care for women. I'll add it to my Big Book O' Stereotypes.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Scott Doyle Verified
Why do you hate fetuses, Pavel?
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
jtmbls Anonymous
Geez, how did I miss this thread?
Big ups to PP, there should be one on every corner. And, by the way, why aren't more private organizations using them as a business model to provide other basic necessities to the masses? More civic responsibility = less government.
Just wait my ass. I’m with DC.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
DC Anonymous
I figured I would try to see what rules Christians put together for this stuff and WHOA!
According to this source, you can "satisfy your body’s needs, while you avoid the risk of unwanted pregnancy and still keep yourself pure for marriage" through the use of what I would describe as an 'advanced' technique.
I presume that all knowledgeable Peggers will recognize such holy texts probably shouldn't be reviewed at work, unless maybe it's doing the Lord's work: http://www.sexinchrist.com/
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
momzilla Anonymous
I used PP back in the day when I was a newlywed and health insurance policies didn't cover "routine health exams" (including pap smears) or birth control. I've long wondered whether the "yearly" really needed to be every year, especially for young women in an exclusive relationship. This sounds like a sensible change of policy to me, even apart from the cost savings.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Pavel Lishin Verified
I'm pretty sure those routine health exams also check to see if you've got cancer or any other maladies that aren't caused by STDs.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
momzilla Anonymous
I'm positive that they are. Pap is specifically to look for cancer or pre-cancers. However, they aren't necessary to be done every single year for healthy, asymptomatic young women who are nonsmokers, have never been exposed to HPV or clamydia, and whose mothers didn't take DES while pregnant. The risk factor for these women is very low. The annual isn't being denied these women anyway, as I understand the article. They are now being given a choice in the matter. An initial exam when getting a new prescription, followed by a questionnaire and blood pressure check at some interval between pelvic exams should be sufficient unless there is a change.
Most cervical cancers are the result of an std, HPV. The new common sense policy is the result of better knowledge about women's health.
1 year, 3 months ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
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