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Cheryl Chessick, left, and Erica Schwartz chat with expectant mother Elizabeth McCune (not a PROMISE clinic patient) at the University of Colorado Hospital. (Photo by Jackie Brinkman/University of Colorado)

Cheryl Chessick, MD and Erica Schwartz, CNM, two CU providers, have come together to offer integrated mental and prenatal care to expecting women.  They are addressing the issue of perinatal and postpartum depression through a simple two-question screening process and a special PROMISE (Perinatal Resource Offering Mood Integration Services and Evaluation) clinic. Chessick and Schwartz are the founders and co-directors of the PROMISE clinic, one of only 10 in the nation offering such integrated care.

“Being pregnant creates an environment where there’s a lot of interpersonal change… and women don’t have control of what’s happening,” said Cheryl Chessick, a perinatal psychiatrist. Through PROMISE, care providers identify women who are suffering from symptoms of depression and then work to help them manage the issues.

Read more about the PROMISE clinic and the care our providers are giving in the full CU Connections article.

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