Dr. Richard Kleppinger - Co-founder of Women's Clinic Ltd.

Doctors Richard Kleppinger, Elwood Brubaker and George Meharg founded Women's Clinic, Ltd. in 1948. Needless to say, many changes have occurred since those early days, but two aspects have remained a constant: the quality of medical care and the pioneering efforts of our physicians. Richard Kleppinger with the “Kleppinger Bipolar Forceps;” George Sexton with the ESVS incontinence procedure; Vincent Pellegrini with one of the first IVF programs outside a major metropolitan medical center; our OB/GYN Ultrasound, Bone Density and clinical laboratory national certifications; our extensive Urogynecology services, etc.

Dr. Elwood Brubaker - Co-founder of Women's Clinic Ltd.

Women's Clinic, Ltd. is comprised of nine OB/GYN physicians, with five of these providers specializing in various non-obstetric practice areas. Our physicians are complimented by ten Certified Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant employees. Our organization has grown to 65 full-time employees, occupying 19,000 sq. ft. of the Medical Office Building associated with The Reading Hospital and Medical Center. Our staff includes a Medical Endocrinologist, three full-time laboratory technicians and three certified ultrasonography technicians, along with support staff that are likewise highly specialized within our practice. The American College of Radiology certifies our ultrasonography program and the International Society of Clinical Densitometrists certifies our Bone Mineral Density services while the College of American Pathologists grants our laboratory certification.

Dr. George Meharg- Co-founder of Women's Clinic Ltd.

The year 1986 marked the beginning of our SART certified In Vitro Fertilization program as one of the very first private practice IVF programs in the country. The entire IVF/ICSI process is managed within our private practice facility. We are very proud to report that our clinical, ultrasound documented, pregnancy rate per IVF embryo transfer procedure has been over 40% for the last 5 years. Indeed, the clinical pregnancy rate for the last 2 years with both standard IVF and the more advanced IVF process of IntraCytoplasmic Sperm Injection has been 58%. This represents the top end of the national IVF statistics, where our program has been since its inception. These figures represent all IVF patients who have come to our program and not just a select group. Almost 350 babies have thus far arrived as a result of our IVF efforts.