What type of company are you? Clinic Which procedures areas do you support? Fertility Treatment/IVF Where do you undertake the procedures or treatment? Barbados Which languages do you support? English Which countries do you support patients from? Globally What accreditations do you or your affiliated medical facilities have? JCI accredited How many patients did your organization service last year? 300 What services do you provide? Barbados Fertility Centre is a centre of excellence for fertility treatment, located on the beautiful tranquil Caribbean island of Barbados. From your initial contact with the highly trained and experienced medical team at Barbados Fertility Centre you will know that you have found a clinic that really cares about each individual patient and will do all they can to help you achieve your dream of having children. Barbados Fertility Centre combines medical tradition with a holistic approach to your care. Studies have shown that stress is a major contributor to infertility and therefore Barbados Fertility Centre uses its ideal location to help couples unwind and relax. The location is then coupled with reflexology, massage, acupuncture and a session with a trained counselor to help you cope with the negative emotions associated with IVF treatment. This means patients at Barbados Fertility Centre are at their optimum of relaxation when they undergo their medical procedure. Barbados Fertility Centre boasts high success rates as they use cutting edge technology in their state of the art clinic. Using techniques such as ‘Vitrification’, which is a method of fast freezing embryos. This technique is not widely available in the UK or the USA and studies have shown this fast freeze method increases a couple’s chance of success. From August 2009, Barbados Fertility Centre will also be able to offer their patients preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) to ensure the best quality of embryo is transferred and again gives their patients the best chance of a successful outcome. Barbados Fertility Centre is accredited by Joint Commision International, who awarded them the gold seal of approval for their patient safety standards and quality of patient care. This gold seal assures you as a patient that the services and treatments offered are of a world class standard. Barbados Fertility Centre treats each patient individually and your care is tailored to ensure that you get the best chance at achieving a pregnancy. They also manage to provide this service at a third of the cost of private IVF treatment in the UK or USA. Contact Barbados Fertility Centre today for your FREE consultation with the IVF Nurse Co-Ordinator. Leading Practitioner’s Qualifications and Experience Dr. Juliet Skinner, MRCOG, MRCPI. After being awarded the Barbados scholarship, Dr Skinner, completed her undergraduate medical training at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Women’s health was always of special interest to her from early on in her training and she specialised in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. After completing her specialisation in Dublin she continued as Perinatal Research Fellow. During this time she developed and evaluated a number of ultrasound diagnostic tests both for fertility and for obstetrics. In 1999 she returned home to Barbados where she dedicated her time to expanding the medical care options to women on the island and within the Caribbean. Fertility and IVF then became the main focus of her interest. While Barbados has a population too small to justify an IVF unit the vision was to develop Barbados Fertility Centre as a centre of excellence, which would treat couples from all over the world. This would be possible by medical tourism, and would benefit local Barbadians by having a service otherwise not possible. But specific to infertility would allow couples from abroad to benefit from the tranquility and relaxation gained from this beautiful island, coupled with acupuncture, reflexology and massage along with the latest medical IVF treatments. Dr Skinner is a Consultant Gynaecologist who leads the team at Barbados Fertility Centre. |