Progressive Health Services

Two Locations!

2141 El Cajon Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92104
619-260-0810

2 blocks W of Texas Street

4 blocks E of Park Blvd.

On the SW corner of Mississippi Street

Look for the little yellow house with the

white picket fence and rose garden in

the North Park section of San Diego

Walk In:

Monday-Thursday 9am-2pm

Friday 9am-12noon

Appointments Other Times:

Monday-Saturday

619-260-0810

We provide gentle, supportive and informative gynecological care. We teach vaginal self-examination with a plastic speculum and breast self-examination as part of routine care and give women speculums to keep and take home. Vaginal self-examination helps women become more knowledgeable about their bodies, enabling them to detect signs of ovulation, common vaginal conditions such as yeast, and even early signs of pregnancy.

Services addressed include:

• OB/GYN
• Cervical Caps
• Family Planning
• Fertility Detection
• Pregnancy Testing
• Pap Smears
• Vaginal Infections
• Cystitis
• PMS & Menopause
• Herpes & Genital Warts
• Pre-Natal and Abortion Referral

Safe, effective and convenient birth control, the cap can be left in place for several days with little or no spermicide. Other birth control methods available include diaphragms, natural fertility detection, female and male condoms, and the pill, Nuva Ring and Patch. We also provide counseling and referral for prenatal care and abortion services.

Our donor insemination program enables women to get pregnant using frozen sperm from a bank. Single women and Lesbians as well as women with infertile partners have found our program particularly helpful. We use licensed sperm banks who rigorously test all donors for HIV, STDs and genetic disorders. Vaginal self-examination has proven to be invaluable in our program for fertility detection. Women receive plastic speculums, cycle charts and insemination tools. Insemination can be done at home or in our office.

We bring over 35 years of experience in Lesbian and Bisexual women's health care to the Lesbian Health Clinic providing a full range of health services. Over 6000 women have participated in our National Lesbian and Bi Women's Health Survey. This ground breaking research is helping to identify rates and risks for cancers and other health concerns in Lesbian and Bisexual women.

Lesbians Considering Parenting is a monthly workshop which explores parenting issues and options, including donor insemination, foster parenting, co-parenting, financial concerns, coming out to our children, birth settings and the realities of parenting. This workshop meets the 3rd Tuesday of each month in San DIego. All women are welcome!

Services for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and questioning communities are taylor made to provide information, support, gentle exams, self-help and to assist in informed decision making to help meet the needs of the LGBTIQ communities.

Informative, compassionate, choice oriented health care, and self-help are everyone's right!

Progressive Health Services Fees

As a nonprofit it helps us when you are able to pay the top of our fee scale. Nutritional supplements, herbs, supplies, literature and all other lab tests are an additional fee.

All fees are subject to change without notice. There is an additional $10 service charge for lab tests collected at our off site patient services centers.

Men sometimes find physical examinations and urological care uncomfortable, uninformative and uncaring. We are sensitive to the needs of men from all walks of life. We offer gentle and informative examinations, teach testicular self-examination*, provide PSA (prostate specific antigen) testing as well as many other tests and health care options.

* Testicular cancer is the leading cause of cancer in men ages 20-40. With early detection treatment has proven to be highly successful.

We now offer the FDA approved Clearview Rapid HIV-1 and HIV 2 Antibody Test with 15 minute results using a single drop of blood from a finger stick! Quick results reduce the stress and inconvenience of waiting. Experts are finding  that HIV antibodies can usually be found 3 to 4 weeks after the risk of exposure.

We also offer the HIV DNA by PCR test which can detect the presence of DNA from HIV in most people within 2-3 days after the risk of exposure. Results are normally available in 3-7 days.

Standard HIV-antibody testing results, including a confirmatory Western Blot if results are reactive, are normally available in 1-2 days.

All testing is strictly confidential! Results can be given with the client's name for immigration, court, or international travel. Also available are T-cell subsets, CBCs, HIV RNA viral loads, and HIV Genotyping.

Testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), also known as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is provided in a strictly confidential and supportive environment. We offer testing for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, herpes, vaginal, rectal and throat Pap smears for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), hepatitis A, B & C, as well as other testing.

Nutritional consultations and food based nutritional supplements are also available as part of our prevention oriented care. Stress and irregular eating habits can create nutritional deficiencies and chemical imbalances that can contribute to digestive problems, suppressed immunity, low energy, PMS, menopause related symptoms, prostatitis and many other conditions. Good nutrition is essential to optimal wellness. Proper nutrition makes a huge difference in helping the body get back on track.

Acupuncture is a safe, comfortable and highly effective traditional Chinese method of healing and promoting wellness. Based on over 2500 years of human research, acupuncturists insert hair fine, sterile, disposable needles into specific points on the body to stimulate and strengthen the QI (chi), or vital energy. Acupuncture and Chinese herbs can be extremely helpful in addressing a myriad of health concerns including digestive, respiratory, musculoskeletal, neurological, and immune conditions, pain, insomnia, stress, sexual and reproductive health and more.

Qigong is an ancient Chinese method of cultivating and utilizing Qi (chi) or vital life force to assist in optimal health, healing and well being. Qigong practices range from seated meditative styles such as in Healing Tao to gentle movement such as Tai Ji and even martial arts.

Progressive Health Services Fees

Progressive Health Services accepts full payment at the time services are rendered. We can provide you with a super bill insurance receipt that you can submit to your insurance company to be reimbursed. While we do not bill health insurance, our fees are covered by most insurance. Having you submit your own insurance billing helps keep our costs down enabling us to provide reasonably priced services.

We place an emphasis health education, information sharing, self-examination and self-help. We are constantly getting feedback from our clients that our services are well worth the cost because of the quality of care we provide as well as time spent.

We have a sliding scale of fees for some of our services enabling those with a financial need to pay a slightly lower fee. As a nonprofit, of course, it helps us when you are able to pay the top of our Fee Scale. Every little bit helps us to provide much needed services!

Low/no income Lesbians, Bisexual women and Transgender people may qualify for financial assistance for health services through the Toni Atkins Lesbian Health Fund. For more information please call us at

For your convenience we accept VISA, MasterCard & cash. We do not accept checks.

All lab tests, herbs, nutritional supplements, literature and supplies are an additional fee.

All fees are subject to change without notice.

Informative

compassionate

choice oriented

health care &

self-help are

everyone's right!