Welcome to our practice. We appreciate the opportunity to provide you with healthcare.
08/24/2025
Looking for a women’s care clinic near you? At WomanCare Centers in Norfolk, VA, we provide complete OB/GYN services to support your health at every stage of life.
Here’s what you’ll find at our clinic:
✔ Annual well-woman exams, Pap smears, and breast screenings
✔ Birth control options including pills, IUDs, implants, and more
✔ Prenatal, pregnancy, and postpartum care with in-office ultrasounds
✔ Menopause and hormone therapy support
✔ Diagnosis and treatment for PCOS, fibroids, endometriosis, and pelvic pain
✔ Minimally invasive procedures like laparoscopic surgery and NovaSure®
✔ Fertility counseling and pre-pregnancy evaluations
✔ Additional services including colposcopy, biopsies, and sexual health support
For more than 25 years, our board-certified physicians and caring team have been here for the Hampton Roads community—providing expert, compassionate women’s health care.
We’re excited to share that Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas) is now available for in-office procedures at our clinic!
This safe, fast-acting option helps ease anxiety and discomfort - and best of all, it wears off quickly, so you can get back to your day with minimal downtime.
Whether you’re coming in for an IUD placement, endometrial biopsy, or other procedures, ask us if nitrous is right for you.
🧘♀️ Comfort. 💪 Control. 🩺 Your care, your choice.
Call us to learn more or ask at your next visit!
08/20/2025
🌸 We’re Partnering for a Purpose! 🤝
WomanCare Centers is proud to join forces with the YWCA to support women and families in need right here in our community. 💖
We're collecting donations of essential items - baby supplies, personal care products, and more - to help lift up those facing challenging times. Together, we can make a meaningful impact!
📍 Drop-off Location: WomanCare Centers, 880 Kempsville Road, Suite 205, Norfolk, VA 23502
📅 Donation Deadline: 09/26/2025
📄 See flyer for full details!
Whether you’re donating or helping us spread the word, every bit of support makes a difference. Let’s come together and show what a caring community can do. 💪💕
08/17/2025
🌸 Ever feel like PMDD is taking over your life? You're definitely not alone, and there ARE ways to take control!
Dive into our latest blog for an insightful Q&A on tackling PMDD. From lifestyle tweaks to medical options, find out what could work best for you. 🌟
Let's build a supportive community together. What have you found helpful in managing PMDD? Share your experiences in the comments! 💬
Happy workiversary to Jennifer - she has been with WomanCare Centers for 20 years!
08/16/2025
Happy workiversary to Emma - she has been with WomanCare Centers for 2 years!
08/07/2025
Happy workiversary to Kirsti - she has been with WomanCare Centers for 12 years!
08/05/2025
Sometimes the best medicine is a day off. 💧
Our team spent Friday soaking up the sun and laughter at the water park for a well-deserved Mental Health Day - because taking care of ourselves helps us take better care of you. 💙
This day of fun wasn’t just about relaxation - it was about team building, reconnecting outside the office, and recharging so we can continue showing up as our best selves for our patients.
Here’s to sunshine, support, and stronger teams - on and off the clock. 🌞👩⚕️💦
08/04/2025
🌍🤱 Happy World Breastfeeding Week!
At WomanCare Centers, we celebrate the power of breastfeeding to nourish, bond, and build healthy futures - for both baby and parent. Our team is here to support you every step of the way, from your first latch to your final feed. 💗
Let’s raise awareness, offer support, and honor every feeding journey - because every drop counts. 🍼✨
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Welcome to WomanCare Centers. We are glad you are here. We are a hometown practice with a wonderful story and a long history of caring for women and their families.
It begins as many stories do, with love and with nursing because nursing is the heart of healthcare. Louann loved being a nurse, loved caring for birthing women and she loved Ted Hughes. They had always known of each other growing up in Norfolk but the history of birthing in Hampton Roads took a right turn when Louann and Ted married in 1980, the year before he finished medical school.
The now Dr. Hughes was a resident at the three area hospitals. It was under the tutelage of the nurses at DePaul Medical Center that Dr. Hughes and his colleagues honed their skills in their care of healthy women. Two of these nurses were Louann (you hear her beautiful voice when you call our office) and our own midwife, then nurse, Nell Dowell. In 1987 Dr. Hughes and Louann opened Health Care Specialists for Women. They began with 6 patients on their first day. Time passed and another bright star arrived in residency: Marybeth Dixon. In 1993, after 6 years as a solo practitioner, Dr.Hughes invited Dr. Dixon to join him in practice. This was the heart of WomanCare Centers as it is today. We grew from love and friendship and through a commitment to women and their families.
As other practices in the area grew, national breastfeeding rates continued to fall and cesarean rates rose, WomanCare Centers rates did not change. The cesarean rate was always lower and the breastfeeding rate continues to be the highest in the state.
In 1999 the midwives and doctors of WomanCare Centers established WomanCare Midwifery (formerly known as The Midwifery Center at DePaul) for families who were seeking a safe and satisfying birth center experience. WomanCare Midwifery serves low risk women and their families who are seeking an unmedicated birth in an environment designed to serve them.
We have continued to grow in service to the families of Hampton Roads and members of our military families. We have grown in number as Blair Conger, CNM, Dr. Hugh Dixon Wolcott, Dr. Elizabeth Golpira, Dr. Ana Basso, Lorena Seitz, CNM, Dr. Kirsten Mosier and Ericka Lavin, CNM have joined us to provide excellent personal care to women at every stage of their lives. You can read about them by clicking here. We have added another service: Centering Pregnancy. Click here to learn more about why women love building community in group prenatal care.
We have also grown by leaps and bounds within our group. Louann and Nell had their babies together while working at DePaul. Louann was nursing her baby when she and Dr. Hughes first opened the practice. Dr. Dixon was the first mother to lie in our new beds in 1997 when The Midwifery Center opened. Dr. Golpira birthed her lovely youngest with us. Nell’s grandbabies were born as part of our Midwifery Center as was Karen Carroll’s grandson. Lorena had her second child with us in the Midwifery Center in 2019! And to bring it full circle, Dr. Hughes and Louann’s daughter, the baby at Louann’s breast when this all started, returned to Norfolk this year and gave them their first granddaughter. Cheers all around.
We welcome you too. It is our goal to partner with you in your ongoing health and wellness. We take care of women through their lifetime for a vibrant future.
