About Pregnancy Aid Center
Pregnancy Aid Centers, Inc. (PAC) is a nonsectarian, non-profit, community-based women’s health clinic and social service agency. PAC’s mission is to provide culturally sensitive, individualized medical and mental health care to low-income women, adolescents, and newborns who have Medicaid, or whose Medicaid is pending, or who have no insurance.
PAC is the sole non-government program in Prince George’s County providing comprehensive women’s health care on a sliding scale: basic primary care to the uninsured, prenatal care, family planning, sexually transmitted infection screening and treatment, cancer screening, and an outreach program for teens to prevent repeat pregnancies. Approximately 1 out of 11 residents is covered by a Medicaid managed care program, and nearly 1 out of every 7 residents is not insured. PAC’s clinic programs provide a significant source of health care for this population. Last year more than 2,000 low-income patients received women’s health care services. Prenatal care was provided to 769 pregnant women and girls. The Newborn Clinic provides immediate care and intensive case management services to uninsured newborns. PAC also distributes emergency food and children’s clothing.
The majority of PAC patients reside in Prince George’s County. PAC also serves a large number of women from lower Montgomery County. Most other patients reside in Anne Arundel and Howard Counties.
Staff
Pregnancy Testing and Counseling Program
Mary Jelacic, LCSW-C
Rossalyn Martinez, BS (currently enrolled in the MSW program)
Claudia Lucaccioni, MA
Madhyatu Taylor-Mercado, BS, RHT
Maternity Program
Nancy Ward, Certified Nurse Midwife
Stephanie Deese, CRNP-OB/GYN
Paul Rogers, MD OB/GYN
Ricardo Scarticini, MD OB/GYN
Chaundra Graham, MD OB/GYN
Women’s’ Health, Title X- Family Planning, BCCP
Renee Milligan, Certified OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner
Margaret Ann Connors, Certified Women’s’ Health Nurse Practitioner
Karen Millet, Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
Pediatric Newborn Clinic
Kathleen Cooney, Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Benjamin Gitterman, MD
Support Staff
Francisco Gonzalez, RMA
Wendy Martinez, RMA
Elizabeth DeRosario, RMA
Nicole Bearer
Jennifer Guerrero
History
Established in 1974, PAC operates out of a yellow frame house in College Park, close to major bus lines. Initially, PAC provided pregnancy testing and options counseling, food, clothes, and referral services. In 1986, with seed money from the Meyer Foundation, PAC’s services were expanded to include a prenatal care clinic. Family planning services were initiated in 1995, and, with a grant from the Freddie Mac Foundation, PAC started an adolescent outreach program.
In 2000, PAC became a site for the Maryland State Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment Programs for uninsured women over 40 and low-income women. To further assist uninsured, indigent women in our community, PAC added Title X family planning services in 2001. More recently, in 2005, PAC implemented a flat fee maternity program in response to a need for prenatal care for uninsured pregnant women. Most recently, PAC initiated a pilot program for uninsured newborn pediatric care.