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Southern California Reproductive Center

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Last Update: 06/02/2020

Description

The Southern California Reproductive Center (SCRCIVF) is a fertility clinic based in Beverly Hills and other locations in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Bakersfield, Glendale, etc., all of which consist of a multidisciplinary team of infertility specialists, embryologists, and administrative staff.

Plus, all of the locations dispose of their own IVF laboratories so that the fertility treatments can be carried out directly in the clinics.

According to information published on its website, SCRCIVF also offers surrogacy treatments and gender selection. Furthermore, this clinic provides fertility financing programs. However, all this information could not be verified by the inviTRA specialists.

If you want to know how to get to each of the locations, click here.

Fertility treatments

Below, you'll find a table with all fertility treatments offered by the Southern California Reproductive Center:

Embryo cryopreservation
Fertility preservation
In Vitro Fertilization / ICSI
IUI with Donor Sperm
IUI with Partner's Sperm
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Reciprocal IVF
Sperm freezing

This center provides also surrogacy and gender selection since the country's legislation allows those treatments.

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.

Complementary techniques

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

Diagnostic treatments

At SCRCIVF, 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:

  • Female Fertility Testing.
  • Male Fertility Testing.
  • Laparoscopy.
  • Transvaginal Hydrolaparoscopy.
  • Hysteroscopy.
  • Salpingoscopy.
  • Falloposcopy.
  • Hysterosalpingogram.

However, all this information has not been 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 scrcivf in a year.

More information
Total Cycles with Fresh Eggs: 64 per year
Total Cycles with Frozen Eggs: 332 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%*
* Percentage extracted from 8 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
0%*
* Percentage extracted from 2 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
100%*
* Percentage extracted from 2 cases only
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
100%*
* Percentage extracted from 1 case only
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
0%*
* Percentage extracted from 1 case only

Cycles with Frozen Eggs

Age of the recipient woman: under 35 years old
60.4%
Age of the recipient woman: between 35 and 37 years old
61%
Age of the recipient woman: between 38 and 40 years old
57.4%
Age of the recipient woman: between 41 and 42 years old
62.1%
Age of the recipient woman: over 43 years old
41.7%

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 scrcivf.

More information
Total Cycles with Fresh Embryos: 0 per year
Total Cycles with Frozen Embryos: 33 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
No data available
Frozen Embryo Transfer
51.5%

Medical team

Mark W. Surrey, M.D. F.A.C.O.G., F.A.C.S.
Mark W. Surrey, M.D. F.A.C.O.G., F.A.C.S.
Clinic Founder & Director
Infertility Specialist
Hal C. Danzer, M.D.
Hal C. Danzer, M.D.
Co-founder and Partner
Infertility Specialist
Shahin Ghadir, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.
Shahin Ghadir, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.
Co-Founder
Infertility Specialist
Jason Barritt, PhD, HCLD,
Jason Barritt, PhD, HCLD,
Chief Scientific Officer
Laboratory Director
Wendy Y. Chang, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.
Wendy Y. Chang, M.D., F.A.C.O.G.
Partner and Scientific Director
Infertility Specialist
Sangita Kathleen Jindal, PhD, HCLD
Sangita Kathleen Jindal, PhD, HCLD
Santa Barbara Lab Director
Desta Gelagay, MT, CLS, ASCP
Desta Gelagay, MT, CLS, ASCP
Laboratory Manager
Jocelyn Hernandez
Jocelyn Hernandez
Financial Counselor
Dominika Ossowska
Dominika Ossowska
Financial Counselor
Jamie Pena
Jamie Pena
Financial Counselor
Ari Mehdizadeh
Ari Mehdizadeh
New Patient Liaison
Kayla Su
Kayla Su
Director of International Business Development
Kyle Francis
Kyle Francis
CEO

Reviews

The reviews about the Center for Reproductive Health & Gynecology found on the internet are generally very positive. In the following section, we are going to list some of the comments on Google Business:

Laura, for example, loves the family-like atmosphere and personalized treatment at the Southern California Reproductive Center. She achieved to get pregnant and is mother to a son now. Claire also comments positively on the clinic. She was recommended a complementary technique in her IVF cycle and could, therefore, get pregnant in the first round. Later, she decided to resort again to an IVF procedure at this facility and was able to get pregnant with her second child. User Hills coincides with the statements above and describes the staff as supportive, understanding, and kind. Their empathy and reassurance kept her and her husband going. They also were able to conceive in the end.

However, there are also some negative comments on this center. Ana was not able to get a consultation in the first place because nobody called her despite having left two voicemails and a written request. VoiceOvers describes Dr. Chang as very nice but she did not follow the established protocol of ICSI with the patients' own eggs. Instead, sperm was feely mixed with eggs and thus, all 6 eggs could not fertilize appropriately and were discarded.

Location: how to get to the clinic?

As commented above, the Southern California Reproductive Center has 7 different locations in California. Below, we are going to comment on each one of them.

Beverly Hills Office

The Beverly Hills location is situated in 450 N Roxbury Dr 500, Beverly Hills, California.

The nearest airport is the Los Angeles International Airport and a 20-minutes drive to the clinic via I-405 N. In order to get to the clinic, start on I-40 N in Inglewood and follow this Interstate to Wilshire Blvd and take exit 55B-C. Finally, follow Wilshire Blvd to N Roxbury Dr. in Beverly Hills.

Santa Barbara Office

This office is situated at 1722 State St 203, Santa Barbara, California.

Santa Barbara Airport is the nearest airport with a 10-minutes drive to the location via US-101 S. Alternatively, there is bus line 11 going to the clinic which takes about 45 minutes to get there.

Ventura Office

The address of the Ventura Office is 2755 Loma Vista Rd, Ventura, CA.

The nearest airport is Oxnard Airport and approximately 15 minutes to the clinic by car. In order to get to the location, take Patterson Rd to W 5th Street. Continue on W. 5th Street and take Harbor Blvd to Loma Vista Road in Ventura.

Bakersfield Office

The Bakersfield office is situated at 100 Old River Rd, Bakersfield, CA.

Meadows Field Airport is the nearest airport and it takes about 20 minutes to get to this facility via Westside Pkwy. Just follow Boughton Road Dr to Airport Dr and continue on Airport Dr. Take CA-58 W, Mohawk St, and Westside Pkwy to Old River Road in Bakersfield.

Glendale Office

This facility's address is 240 S Jackson St 109, Glendale, CA.

The nearest airport to the location is Los Angeles International Airport via I-110 N and it takes approximately 30 minutes to get to this office.

Pasadena Office

The Pasadena Office is situated in 625 S Fair Oaks Ave 270b, Pasadena, CA.

The Los Angeles International Airport is only a 30 minutes drive to the clinic via I-110 N and CA-110.

Torrance Office

This branch is located in 23365 Hawthorne Blvd, Ste102B, Torrance, CA.

Not far from this clinic is the Los Angeles International Airport being just 20 minutes away. In order to get to the Torrance Office, get on I-105 from S Sepulveda Blvd and follow I-105 E, I-110 N, and CA-110 to Fair Oaks Ave in South Pasadena. Take exit 31B and turn left onto Fair Oaks Avenue.

Last Update: 06/02/2020