Baptist Tipton Women’s Health Services
If you live in Tipton County, Tennessee, you no longer have to travel miles to get the women’s health care and services you need.
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton provides exceptional women’s health care services right here in Tipton County. Our comprehensive services include obstetric and gynecological health care to annual mammograms and menopausal care.
Beginning spring 2025, we will also be Tipton County’s only dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) bone density scan provider. This technology detects bone loss earlier and in greater detail.
With a full range of women’s health care to the most advanced diagnostic technology available, Baptist Tipton is dedicated to making exceptional women’s health services accessible and convenient.
Our services
We offer a broad range of women’s services for all stages of their lives, including:
- Diagnostic screenings for conditions and diseases including breast cancer, heart disease, lung disease, gynecological cancers (including cervical, ovarian and uterine) and bone density
- Annual and diagnostic mammograms
- Diagnostic screenings
- Gynecological health and surgery
- Obstetrics and childbirth
- Menopause and post-menopause care
- Bone density scans
Tipton County’s only provider of the DEXA bone density scan
Beginning spring 2025, Baptist Tipton will be the only provider in Tipton County to offer the DEXA bone density scan, a high-precision imaging tool that detects bone loss with more accuracy and detail, which can lead to more effective treatment options. The DEXA scan does require a doctor’s referral.
A DEXA bone density scan is fast, noninvasive and uses an extremely low level of radiation. It is the best technique for assessing bone mineral density in postmenopausal women according to the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as for patients with osteoporosis risk factors, such as low body mass index, a family history of osteoporosis and tobacco and alcohol use.
Your doctor may order a DEXA scan if you:
- Are a woman 65 years or older, or a man 70 years or older (as recommended by the National Osteoporosis Foundation)
- Have symptoms of osteoporosis
- Break a bone after age 50
- Are a man 50 to 59 years old and have risk factors
- Are postmenopausal, are under 65 years old and have risk factors, such as:
- Tobacco and/or alcohol use
- Use of steroids
- Low body mass index (BMI)
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Physical inactivity
- Family history of osteoporosis
- Previous fractures
- Height loss of more than an inch
Schedule an appointment today.
Now there is no need to leave Tipton County to get world-class women’s health services, including regular and diagnostic screenings.
Annual mammograms don’t require a doctor’s order, and may be scheduled by calling 901-475-5529.
Diagnostic mammograms and the DEXA bone density scans require a doctor’s order. Providers should call 844-837-2433 to schedule for a patient.