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Shady Grove Fertility

Analyzed by inviTRA Staff
Last Update: 04/28/2020

Description

Shady Grove Fertility Center is a fertility center with 12 clinics throughout the United States. However, not all centers have their own laboratory and operating room to perform the assisted reproduction treatments they offer their patients.

This center attends to national and international patients, so they speak 2 languages: Englishand Chinese.

Shady Grove Fertility Center also offers the possibility of financing treatments to help patients and has various discount programs according to the information published on its website.

Furthermore, Shady Grove Fertility is fully accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. (AAHC) and The Joint Commission.

However, all this information could not be verified by the inviTRA specialists.

If you want to know how to get to the clinics, click here.

Available treatments

The following fertility treatments are available at the center:

Embryo Adoption
Fertility preservation
Frozen Embryo Transfer
In Vitro Fertilization / ICSI
IUI with Donor Sperm
IUI with Partner's Sperm
IVF with Donor Eggs
IVF with Donor Sperm
Low medication IVF
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Reciprocal IVF

The clinic also provides the possibility of undergoing a surrogacy treatment, since the law of the country contemplates this technique.

If you're still unsure which fertility treatment is right for you and would like to know more about it, we suggest you read on here: Fertility Treatment Overview.

The treatment costs may vary significantly depending on the tests or techniques included or not, such as the seminogram, medication, fertility testing, medical visits, prolonged culture or embryo vitrification.

This Tool helps you to find out the exact costs of the different fertility clinics (what's included and what's not) and provides you with lots of useful tips for your first appointment.

Complimentary techniques

In addition to all the treatments indicated in the previous section, Shady Groove Fertility has the necessary technology to perform the following complementary techniques in order to increase the possibilities of success of the treatments:

Diagnostic treatments

At Shady Grove, it is also possible to perform the following diagnostic tests on men and women to find out the reason for infertility and establish the most appropriate treatment:

However, all this information could not be verified by the inviTRA-Specialists.

Success rates

This data has been collected by the American CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in the year 2016. Directly comparing pregnancy rates between different clinics can lead to mistakes.

IVF/ICSI

Realized cycles

Number of total cycles performed by the clinic in a year.

The CDC stipulates both the total number of cycles realized per clinic in general and number of cycles performed by the patient's age group: under 35 years, between 35-37 years, between 38-40 years, between 41-42 years and above 43 years.

This is the total number of performed cycles by SGF in a year.

More information
Cycles with Fresh Eggs: > 3368 per year
Cycles with Frozen eggs: > 2791 per year

Pregnancy probability per transfer

Probability that an embryo transfer will lead to a pregnancy, regardless of the number of embryos transferred.

Cycles with Fresh Eggs

Age of the recipient woman: under 35 years old
50,4%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
44,3%
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
38,7%
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
29,4%
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
16,3%

Cycles with Frozen Eggs

Age of the recipient woman: under 35 years old
61,6%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
61,8%
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
56,5%
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
51,3%
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
43,9%

IVF with egg donation

Realized cycles

Number of total cycles performed by the clinic in a year.

In regards to egg donation cycles, these are the ranges of annual cycles carried out by SGF.

More information
Cycles with Fresh Eggs: 1 per year
Cycles with Frozen Eggs: 841 per year

Pregnancy probability per transfer

Probability that an embryo transfer will lead to a pregnancy, regardless of the number of embryos transferred.

Fresh Embryo Transfer
100%*
* Percentage obtained from 1 case only
Frozen Embryo Transfer
51,2%

Reviews

The reviews on Google Business about Shady Grove Fertility are mostly very positive.

Dana, for example, describes Dr. Chang and his nurse Kaitlin as excellent professionals who are always quick to respond to her questions. She also praises the surgical care obtained from the main headquarters. Kyle and Amber would recommend Shady Grove, too. The clinic's facility appeals to the patients as well.

However, there are also a few negative comments, such as from Keshia. In contrary to the users above, she describes the staff as being unprofessional. She had some issues in getting back her laboratory results.

Read all comments on the fertility center on Google Business here: Reviews on Shady Grove Fertility in Rockville.

These results refer to Shady Grove Fertility in Rockville, MD.

Medical team

Michael j. Tucker, Ph.D.
Michael j. Tucker, Ph.D.
Chief Scientific Director of IVF and Embryology Laboratories at SGF
Michael J. Levy, M.D.
Michael J. Levy, M.D.
Founding Partner, President and IVF-Director

Location: how to get to the clinic?

As mentioned before, the Shady Grove has several consultation practices, laboratories, and fertility centers throughout the states.

Below, we will only comment on the consultation practices who have their own IVF laboratory integrated.

Florida Offices

The Tampa Westshore office is just 3 miles away from Tampa International Airport. The fastest route is by W Cypress St.

Georga Office

The Atlanta Northside Office is located at 5445 Meridian Mark Road in Atlanta. Atlanta Airport is just a 25 minutes drive away.

In order to get from the airport to the clinic, take I-85 N.

Alternatively, you may take the Train direction Red Northbound to North Springs Station. It will take you about 50 minutes.

Maryland Office

The Rockville office is located at 9601 Blackwell Road in Rockville. Baltimore Airport is 1.5 hours away.

You can get to the clinic by public transportation using Train line 201, with an exchange to lines 43 or 74. However, it will take you approx. 2 hours.

By car, it is just a 45 minutes drive from the airport via I-95 S and MD-200 W.

The Towson office is found at 901 Dulaney Valley Road in Towson. Baltimore Airport is just 30 minutes away by car. Take the I-695 N to get there.

There are also several Shuttles and trains, but various changes have to be made.

New York Office

The New York branch is located on 110 East 60th Street New York, NY 10022.

The Lexington Avenue Transit stop is just a few minutes' walks away from the office. You can also take the commuter rail.

The nearest airports are La guardia Airport (14 minutes drive), JFK International Airport (25 minutes drive), and Newark Liberty International Airport (30 minutes drive).

Pennsylvania Office

The Chesterbrook office is located in 945 Chesterbrook boulevard. The nearest airport is Philadelphia Airport and it takes you 30 minutes via I-476 N.

Virginia Office

In 8501 Arlington BLVD, you'll find the Fairfax office.

The International Airport Washington-Dulles is a 25 minutes drive away. You'll get to the clinic by taking the VA-267 E.

Last Update: 04/28/2020