Virginia Physicians for Women

10/17/2025

VPFW volunteers helped the American Cancer Society stuff 300 goody bags for breast cancer survivors who will be at the Making Strides Walk this Saturday. 💗 Now it’s time to support them! Get decked out in your pink and come walk with Team VPFW down beautiful Monument Avenue on Saturday. The festival in Monroe Park opens at 9am, and the walk begins at 10am. 

Go to vpfw.com/BreastCancerAwarenessMonth or the link in our bio to join our team or make a donation towards support for survivors and lifesaving research at labs around the country. 

We had the privilege of touring one of these labs right here in Richmond at VCU Health, where scientists are studying things like what impacts the growth of cancer cells and how genetic mutations might play a part. They’re also exploring how using other mechanisms—besides killing the cancer cells themselves—might allow them to manipulate the environment where cancer cells are able to grow so that they can prevent them from spreading. “There more ways to win the war than just killing soldiers. You could also cut the water supply or disrupt the lines of communications,” says Dr. Paula Bos, head of the Bos Laboratory at VCU.

With research grants down this year, the current need for funding for everything from staffing to costly equipment at labs like Dr. Bos’ is immense. You can donate to our Making Strides fundraising team at the link in our bio or go to vpfw.com/BreastCancerAwarenessMonth. And we’d love to see you out there on Saturday! 💓

10/16/2025

💓 Did you know there’s a 99% survival rate of breast cancer is caught early, before it has spread to other parts of the body? Hollie Jones, nurse practitioner at VPFW, wants to make sure more women in greater Richmond do!

Big thank you to K95’s Lori Kelly, a VPFW patient and breast cancer and uterine cancer survivor herself, for having Hollie on her Focus Richmond Show to talk about the importance of getting mammograms starting at age 40, why 3D mammograms are best, and how VPFW is raising awareness, funds, and support during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Hear Lori’s full interview with Hollie at https://youtu.be/McN4kQKfXT0?si=s6pnQaafTEGa7FCD.

*Please note - all 42 free mammogram spots for uninsured women have been filled - but you can still join us in our other Breast Cancer Awareness Month Activities!

💗 Get 15% off initial treatment of ThermiVa during the month of October if you are a breast cancer survivor.

👛 Enter our Pink Purse Raffle and win great prizes from local businesses.
(Hint, everything marked with a 👛 below is a way to enter!)

💞 Pink out with us in October! Post of photo of you in your pink with hashtag and tag . 👛

🚶‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️Join our Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk team and walk with us this Saturday, Oct. 18 down Monument Avenue. 👛

🧢 Donate hats, scarves and uplifting greeting cards for cancer patients via Caps for Cancer and Cards for a Cause. (Please seal donations in a plastic bag due to the weakened immune systems of the recipients.) 👛

🔬Donate to our Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation donation page to support research, advocacy, and support for local individuals and families affected by breast cancer. 👛

💖 Schedule your annual screening mammogram at one of 4 VPFW locations (West Creek, Koger Center, St. Francis, or Prince George).

Learn more at vpfw.com/BreastCancerAwarenessMonth. Thanks for helping us fight breast cancer and remind everyone that mammograms save lives! 💗

10/13/2025

💓 There’s a nip in the air...you know what that means! It’s time to sign up with Team VPFW and help turn Monument Avenue PINK when we walk in honor of everyone whose life has been touched by breast cancer at the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk and festival this Saturday, Oct. 18! The fun starts at 9am in VCU’s Monroe Park, and the 5K walk down Monument Ave. begins at 10am.

VPFW is the proud Scavenger Hunt Sponsor again this year (👀 our pink messages throughout the course!) and the perennial favorite for “most fun tent” with our pinktastic photo booth props! (Come say hi and get a pic!!) 💞

Join our team, walk the 5K course with us, and/or help us raise money in support of breast cancer patients, survivors, families - and the research that could help to eradicate it. 💗

It’s FREE to sign up and walk with VPFW – plus you’ll be entered into our Pink Purse Raffle! Learn more at vpfw.com/BreastCancerAwarenessMonth(link in bio). We can’t wait to see everyone out there! 💗
 

10/10/2025

Do you need a mammogram but don’t have insurance? 💓

Don’t skip it.

Virginia Physicians for Women is offering FREE screening mammograms for uninsured women during . Mammograms will be read by Radiology Associates of Richmond. 💗

Call us at 804-897-2100 or message us at vpfw.com to schedule your free mammogram during October.



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10/08/2025

More pics from our PINKOUT and a reminder of our Breast Cancer Awareness Month happenings. All the details can be found at vpfw.com/breastcancerawarenessmonth (link in bio)!

💓 FREE mammograms for UNINSURED women at VPFW’s Koger Center, St. Francis, or Prince George location during October. Mammograms will be read by Radiology Associates of Richmond pro bono. Call us to schedule! 804-897-2100.

💗 Get 15% off initial treatment of ThermiVa during the month of October if you are a breast cancer survivor. Call us to schedule! 804-897-2100.

👛 Enter our Pink Purse Raffle and win great prizes from local businesses.
(Hint, everything marked with a 👛 below is a way to enter!)

💕 Pink out with us in October! Post of photo of you in your pink with hashtag and tag . 👛

🧢 Donate hats, scarves and uplifting greeting cards for cancer patients via Caps for Cancer and Cards for a Cause. (Please seal donations in a plastic bag due to the weakened immune systems of the recipients.) 👛

🔬Donate to our Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation donation page to support research, advocacy, and support for local individuals and families affected by breast cancer. 👛

🚶🏾‍♀️🚶‍♀️Join our Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk team and walk with us on Saturday, Oct. 18 down Monument Avenue. 👛

💖 Schedule your annual screening mammogram at one of 4 VPFW locations (West Creek, Koger Center, St. Francis, or Prince George).
Learn more at vpfw.com/BreastCancerAwarenessMonth (link in bio). Thanks for helping us fight breast cancer and remind everyone that mammograms save lives!

10/08/2025

💞 More pics from our PINKOUT and a reminder of our Breast Cancer Awareness Month happenings! All the details can be found at vpfw.com/breastcancerawarenessmonth.

💓 FREE mammograms for UNINSURED women at VPFW’s Koger Center, St. Francis, or Prince George location during October. Mammograms will be read by Radiology Associates of Richmond pro bono. Call us to schedule! 804-897-2100.

💗 Get 15% off initial treatment of ThermiVa during the month of October if you are a breast cancer survivor. Call us to schedule! 804-897-2100.

👛 Enter our Pink Purse Raffle and win great prizes from local businesses.
(Hint, everything marked with a 👛 below is a way to enter!)

💕 Pink out with us in October! Post of photo of you in your pink with hashtag and tag . 👛

🧢 Donate hats, scarves and uplifting greeting cards for cancer patients via Caps for Cancer and Cards for a Cause. (Please seal donations in a plastic bag due to the weakened immune systems of the recipients.) 👛

🔬Donate to our Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation donation page to support research, advocacy, and support for local individuals and families affected by breast cancer. 👛

🚶🏾‍♀️🚶‍♀️Join our Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk team and walk with us on Saturday, Oct. 18 down Monument Avenue. 👛

💖 Schedule your annual screening mammogram at one of 4 VPFW locations (West Creek, Koger Center, St. Francis, or Prince George).

Learn more at vpfw.com/BreastCancerAwarenessMonth. Thanks for helping us fight breast cancer and remind everyone that mammograms save lives! 💗

10/06/2025

💞 We like other colors, but....pink just looks so good on us! (And it reminds us to get our mammograms!) ☺️💓

We are kicking off Breast Cancer Awareness Month with our annual PINKOUT to support survivors, thrivers, and anyone whose life has been touched by breast cancer — or will be in the future. As of now, 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed. With the strides we are making with research and early detection, there is so much hope. But we have to remind each other - our friends, our moms, our sisters, our friends’ moms’ sisters...to get those annual mammograms. Every. Year. 💓

No insurance? Don’t skip it! VPFW is offering FREE mammograms at 3 locations (St. Francis, Prince George, and Koger Center) throughout October. 

Join us by wearing your pink, posting a selfie, tagging VPFW, and using the hashtag . Not only can it give someone you love the push they need - it also gets you an entry into our Pink Purse Raffle! 👛

Other ways to enter our Pink Purse Raffle for a chance to great prizes from local businesses:

👛 Join VPFW’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer team and walk with us on Sat., Oct. 18, in Monroe Park

👛 Donate new or handmade hats, scarves, and uplifting greeting cards, sealed in a plastic bag, at any VPFW location for Caps for Cancer and Cards for a Cause to give to local cancer patients

👛 Make a donation to our fundraiser for Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation

Get all the details at vpfw.com/BreastCancerAwarenessMonth(link in bio) and help us spread the word that ! 💓

10/02/2025

💖 It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month! VPFW is raising spirits, donations, and funds in the fight against breast cancer, and there are lots of ways to get involved (and win great prizes!). 

Check out our activities below. All the details can be found at vpfw.com/breastcancerawarenessmonth(link in bio)!

💓Schedule a free mammogram at VPFW’s Koger Center, St. Francis, or Prince George location during October if you are uninsured. Mammograms will be read by Radiology Associates of Richmond pro bono. (Please share with anyone you know who could benefit from this free service!)

💗 Get 15% off initial treatment of ThermiVa during the month of October if you are a breast cancer survivor.

👛 Enter our Pink Purse Raffle and win great prizes from local businesses.
(Hint, everything marked with a 👛 below is a way to enter!)

💞 Pink out with us in October! Post of photo of you in your pink with hashtag and tag . 👛

🧢 Donate hats, scarves and uplifting greeting cards for cancer patients via Caps for Cancer and Cards for a Cause. (Please seal donations in a plastic bag due to the weakened immune systems of the recipients.) 👛

🔬Donate to our Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation donation page to support research, advocacy, and support for local individuals and families affected by breast cancer. 👛

🚶‍♀️🚶🏾‍♀️Join our Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk team and walk with us on Saturday, Oct. 18 down Monument Avenue. 👛

💖 Schedule your annual screening mammogram at one of 4 VPFW locations (West Creek, Koger Center, St. Francis, or Prince George).

Learn more at vpfw.com/BreastCancerAwarenessMonth (link in bio). Thanks for helping us fight breast cancer and remind everyone that mammograms save lives! 💗

09/22/2025

"'Seven Starling solved the problem I've had for years: knowing my patients need support but having nowhere appropriate to refer them quickly,' said Dr. Annam Abbasi, an OBGYN at Virginia Physicians for Women. 'The seamless referrals and rapid patient access has transformed how we address maternal mental health at my practice.'"

We are thrilled at the news that Seven Starling, a leading virtual provider of women's behavioral health services, will be accelerating its national expansion of its specialized maternal mental health platform that gives women access to mental health care when they need it most.

VPFW was one of the first OB/GYN practices to embrace Seven Starling's one-step referral process, guaranteeing patients would be seen within a week of being referred for mental health struggles during fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood. (Learn more about perinatal mental health challenges in Dr. Kathryn Lucas' blog post, "What Is Postpartum Depression and How to Find Light," at https://vpfw.com/blog/what-is-postpartum-depression/ .)

Meeting this need for care so efficiently has had hugely positive effects here in Central Virginia, and we applaud Seven Starling for their efforts to expand that access to care on a national scale. Read more at: https://www.theolympian.com/press-releases/article312158214.html

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09/18/2025

💕We’re Hiring!

VPFW is excited to be hiring Patient Coordinators to join the front desk team at both our West End and Southside OB/GYN offices.

Patient coordinators are the first faces that greet our patients when they visit our offices, so a great smile is a must! We are seeking applicants who possess 5-star customer service skills and problem-solving ability.

Continually voted best OB/GYN in Richmond, VPFW offers the advantages you would expect from a leading healthcare employer:

💗Supportive workplace culture
💗Competitive salaries
💗Bonus program
💗Comprehensive benefits

Learn more and apply at vpfw.com/careers. Please share with anyone you know who may be interested! 💞

09/16/2025

💖📚 Dr. Prosser and her book club know how important books are for little ones! Access to books/being read to before a child starts school is the biggest factor in their early elementary success. Yet in low-income neighborhoods, the ratio is only 1 age-appropriate book for every 300 children. You can help!

VPFW is holding a baby and children's book drive (new books only) for Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Christmas Mother, which will give books to local children in need this holiday season. Big thanks to Dr. Prosser and her book club for donating a big bag full of awesome, new books!

You (and/or your book club!) can participate, by donating new books at any VPFW location through September 30th. See recommendations and details at https://vpfw.com/blog/baby-and-childrens-book-drive/, where you can also find our Amazon Wishlist. We've added some of our favorites!

Board books, lift-the-flap, touch-and-feel, puppet books, and other interactive books are always appreciated as the greatest need is ages 0-5. Bilingual books and books with racial diversity are also encouraged.

Thanks for helping us support child literacy in our area! 📚💖

09/12/2025

🧠 Researchers at VCU's TREAT (Translational Research on Eating and Affect) Lab are recruiting participants ages 12-25, with and without eating disorder symptoms, who were assigned female at birth for a study investigating how risk-taking and eating behavior are linked.

Participants may earn up to $272 plus bonuses (ranging from $0-$198, total).

Participation includes:
• Remote or in-person visit with interviews
• In-person MRI brain scan, computer games, and surveys
• Remote surveys and computer games for 2 weeks

Please fill out the interest form at https://redcap.vcu.edu/surveys/?s=48YEAYT8MK33E8EJ to see if you are eligible and share with anyone you know who may be interested in participating.

We're happy to support this important research that could help so many young women! 💕