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What Is the International Patients Program at CHR?
The Center for Human Reproduction (CHR) in New York, NY is one of the largest and most respected fertility programs in the United States. CHR offers comprehensive fertility services with special access programs designed to accommodate the unique needs of our international patients. As the Center for Human Reproduction has grown, so has the number of long-distance and international patients seeking fertility treatments. These patients, who live too far from our Manhattan facility for daily visits, now make up more than half of CHR's consultations. A significant portion of these patients come from outside the United States for our specialized treatment expertise.
The logistics for long-distance patients differ significantly from those for local patients. Despite these differences, CHR ensures that all patients receive the same high-quality fertility treatments, reporting every IVF cycle to national registries at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART). While treatment protocols remain consistent, we coordinate care to minimize the need for travel. Many long-distance patients may come to CHR for a second opinion consultation, either online or in-person, and then continue their treatment locally. For those who undergo IVF cycles with us, we work to coordinate care efficiently, minimizing their stay in the U.S. and ensuring seamless communication with their local healthcare providers.
How Do Fertility Treatments for Long-Distance Patients Work?
For many long-distance patients, receiving fertility treatments at the Center for Human Reproduction can be logistically challenging and costly. To address this, CHR minimizes the need for frequent visits by conducting initial consultations via phone or video. If further diagnostic evaluations are required, CHR's clinical coordinators arrange for tests to be performed at a local IVF center near the patient's home. CHR collaborates with numerous IVF centers worldwide, ensuring seamless coordination and care under CHR's protocols and supervision. This means all preliminary steps are handled locally, and the patient only needs to visit our New York, NY office once for a few short days.
The duration of our patients' stay depends on the type of IVF cycle. A standard IVF cycle typically requires about four days while cycles involving closer monitoring or embryo culturing may extend to 5 – 6 days. For egg donation cycles, the stay is often just 1 – 2 days. Throughout the treatment process, one of our clinical coordinators and physicians will offer support from the first consultation until the completion of treatment plans, ensuring continuity of care.
We prioritize our patients' comfort and convenience, ensuring that their accommodation and language needs are met. If you inform us of your arrival in advance, we can arrange hotel accommodations near our facility and provide language assistance during your visits with our physicians. In addition to English, our physicians and staff speak Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Russian, Polish, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Georgian, Romanian, Japanese, Tagalog, German, and Hebrew. For other languages, we can arrange interpretation and translation services as needed.
What Should Long-Distance Fertility Patients Consider?
For long-distance patients, especially those overseas, accessing the right fertility medications can be challenging due to availability issues. While similar drugs might be available locally, it is crucial for CHR long-distance patients to receive the same treatment as local patients, including the exact medications. Our clinical coordinators work diligently to ensure that all long-distance patients have access to the necessary medications to match the standards of care provided at our New York City facility.
The cost structure for long-distance treatment at CHR is straightforward: patients are only charged for services provided by CHR staff with local IVF centers billing for their services separately. Finding suitable local IVF centers is essential, though it can be challenging in rural areas of developed countries and major urban centers in less developed countries. In such cases, patients might need to come to NYC for the entire IVF cycle, which can be condensed to 2 – 3 weeks. While CHR prefers to provide all services at our facility, we understand the need to minimize travel time without compromising treatment outcomes. We strive to make fertility treatment as accessible and efficient as possible for our long-distance patients, ensuring high-quality care and successful cycle outcomes.
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The doctors and staff are all great. They will go to great lengths and fight for every chance you have!
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Dr. Barad has elegant solutions to medical issues and is a skilled practitioner.
We are writing this letter of gratitude for Dr Norbert Gleicher and the entire staff at Center for Human Reproduction. My wife and I are so very thankful that we listened to Dr Gleicher's advice back on October 1st,2021 during a consultation he advised us to not allow our fertilized eggs to be discarded and killed.Our two eggs were tested and declared to be irregular by another IVF lab. We kept the eggs frozen and after 4 more failed IVF cycles came to Dr Gleicher for another try. We asked Dr Gleicher if it was worth a try to have eggs transferred into my wife and he studied the data and approved of the procedure. On February 7th,2024 we had 2 frozen eggs transferred and waited for the results.Finally later in February after the 13 day wait we were advised of blood test that confirmed that we were pregnant with an xx embryo from the transfer.XX is a girl and a huge feeling warmth and happiness overwhelmed both of us. We had several ultrasounds during the 4-5 weeks following and all were very positive with strong heartbeat and great growth, Today my wife is approaching her 18th week pregnant and all is going great with the development and follow up visits. Our baby is growing by the day and we look forward to our 20 week ultrasound for further development rate. If we had not discussed and listened to Dr Gleicher back in 2021 we would never have been so far with a pregnancy. The entire staff is wonderful and Hui Na was very helpful and communicative through the entire process with my wife. Please accept our sincere thank you and heartfelt praise for the team. Our baby is due around Oct 26th,2024 and we intend to vist to say thanks in person,we will make the trip from our home in Florida. Blessings to all.
My husband & I had an initial consultation with Dr. Barad, and were blown away by the time he spent with us & care he put into our conversation & next steps. For the first time in a long time on our infertility journey, it felt like someone actually heard us & our concerns. He's already suggested some new approaches we can take towards having a healthy pregnancy, that no other doctor ever mentioned, and we've been at this for years! The peace of mind & hope he offered alone were worth it. Would highly recommend.
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Why Choose CHR?
The Center for Human Reproduction offers high-quality care combined with comprehensive treatments to help patients achieve their fertility goals. Led by Dr. Gleicher and Dr. Barad, our team is renowned for our success with complex cases, including those where the patients have thought there were no options left. We have successfully helped patients with severe infertility challenges conceive using their own eggs. CHR offers hope where others may not. Contact our center in New York, NY today to find out how we can make a difference in your journey to parenthood.
