White Plains Hospital is pleased to welcome Ruth Barrow, MD, to its Physician Associates Division. Dr. Barrow is a board certified OBGYN, specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, including pre-pregnancy counseling, routine pregnancy care and high-risk pregnancy care (collaborating with maternal fetal specialists), women’s health for teens and adults, heavy and irregular menstrual cycles and menstrual disorders, abnormal Pap smears, amenorrhea, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and sexually transmitted infections.
She earned her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her internship and residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where she served as Chief Resident. Dr. Barrow is also a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Dr. Barrow is a former Assistant Clinical Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and OBGYN Medical Director at Washington Heights Family Health Center. Dr. Barrow served as a research investigator for the Department of OBGYN at Columbia University Medical Center and was a physician volunteer with the International Organization for Women and Development’s Fistula repair program at Kibagabaga Hospital in Rwanda.
She will see patients at the White Plains Hospital Physician Associates offices at 170 Maple Avenue in White Plains and 1296 North Avenue, in New Rochelle; and at Scarsdale Medical Group at 600 Mamaroneck Avenue, 3rd Floor. For appointments, please call (914) 328-8444.
About White Plains Hospital
White Plains Hospital is a proud member of the Montefiore Health System, serving as its tertiary hub of advanced care in the Hudson Valley. The Hospital is a 292-bed not-for-profit health care organization with the primary mission of providing exceptional acute and preventive medical care to all people who live in, work in or visit Westchester County and its surrounding areas. Centers of Excellence include the Center for Cancer Care, The William & Sylvia Silberstein Neonatal & Maternity Center and The Ruth and Jerome A. Siegel Stroke Center. The Hospital’s Flanzer Emergency Department is the busiest in Westchester County, with more than 64,000 patient visits a year. White Plains Hospital performs lifesaving emergency and elective angioplasty in its Joan and Alan Herfort, MD, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Marie Promuto Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. White Plains Hospital has outpatient medical facilities across Westchester, including multispecialty practices in Armonk, New Rochelle, Somers and Yorktown Heights; and Scarsdale Medical Group locations in Harrison and Scarsdale.
The Hospital is fully accredited by the Joint Commission and earned its recognition as a Top Performer for Key Quality Measures® in 2015 and 2013. The Hospital received Magnet® designation in 2012 and 2016 from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The Hospital earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC), one of 16 hospitals in the nation, and the Hospital's Bariatric Surgical Center is accredited as a Comprehensive Center under the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP). White Plains Hospital has also received full accreditation for its breast cancer program from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) and The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) recognized White Plains Hospital as a top 10% performing hospital for achieving meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2019. In 2020, White Plains Hospital received the Outstanding Patient Experience Award from Healthgrades® for the fifth time and, was once again named Best Regional Hospital by U.S. News & World Report. https://www.wphospital.org/about/affiliations-accreditations-awards
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