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Contraception and Family Planning
At the UC Davis Health Family Planning Center, we provide the region’s top expertise in family planning. We’re here to support your unique needs.
Medically reviewed by Hui Amy Chen, M.D. on July 18, 2023.
Compassionate Family Planning
At UC Davis Health, we provide all types of contraception and specialize in helping you understand your options. Whatever you choose, we’re here to support you.
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What Are Contraception and Family Planning?
Contraception is also called birth control. It involves methods of preventing pregnancy. Family planning is your ability to have the number of children you want at the time you desire. Using contraception before and after pregnancies can help you with family planning.
Decisions about having children are deeply personal. We’re here to help you understand all your options.
Medications and procedures that can help with your family planning include:
- Reversible contraception: Birth control you can stop using or remove if you want to become pregnant.
- Emergency contraception: Birth control you can take within five days of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy.
- Permanent contraception: Surgical procedures that permanently prevent pregnancy.
- Abortion: The termination of an unwanted pregnancy.
Family Planning Services at UC Davis Health
Our entire team at the UC Davis Family Planning Center is committed to giving you compassionate, high-quality and inclusive reproductive health care.
Our family planning services include:
Contraception
We offer many reversible contraception options. These include birth control pills, intrauterine devices (IUDs), implants, injections, patches and vaginal rings.
Permanent birth control
Permanent birth control options include minimally invasive procedures to remove your fallopian tubes.
Abortion
We provide medication and procedural abortion options in the first and second trimesters.
In the U.S.
65%Of women ages 15 to 49 use some form of contraception
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Current Contraceptive Status Among Women Aged 15–49: United States, 2015–2017
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Ranked among the nation’s best hospitals
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Ranked among the nation’s best children’s hospitals
A U.S. News & World Report best children’s hospital in diabetes & endocrinology, nephrology, and orthopedics*. (*Together with Shriners Children’s)
Ranked Sacramento’s #1 hospital
Ranked Sacramento’s #1 hospital by U.S. News, and high-performing in COPD, colon cancer surgery, diabetes, heart attack, heart failure, hip fracture, hip replacement, kidney failure, leukemia, lymphoma & myeloma, lung cancer surgery, ovarian cancer surgery, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, stroke, TAVR, uterine cancer surgery, gastroenterology & GI surgery, and orthopedics.
The nation’s highest nursing honor
UC Davis Medical Center has received Magnet® recognition, the nation’s highest honor for nursing excellence.
“Most Wired” for acute care
UC Davis Health has been recognized as a level 10 out of 10 in the Digital Health “Most Wired” program from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). The honor recognizes excellence in using technology to improve the delivery of care.
“Most Wired” for ambulatory care
UC Davis Health has been recognized as a level 10 out of 10 in the Digital Health “Most Wired” program from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). The honor recognizes excellence in using technology to improve the delivery of care.
World-class cancer care
One of ~56 U.S. cancer centers designated “comprehensive” by the National Cancer Institute.
A leader in health care equality
For the 11th consecutive year, UC Davis Medical Center has been recognized as a “Leader in LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality.”
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