Where Life Is Beautiful! summer
SMPC clients
Martha & baby Padme
Nurse Manager, Elaine McFarland, RN, BSN
“Building relationships with clients rewards both the nursing staff and the client. In client one-on-one visits, we build trust and we can educate women in healthy habits for themselves and their unborn baby,” shares SMPC Nurse Manager Elaine McFarland, RN, BSN.
“The Center’s supporters thank us for doing what we do for women in fragile situations—but really, it's we, SMPC's medical & care teams—who give thanks for our donors. We love what we do and the donors love what we do and together, we provide excellent care for vulnerable women and babies.
In most clinics it's unusual to have time during intake visits to talk to patients—it can be more like herding patients rather than tending to them,” shares Elaine. “I love having time for medical care and education.”
“About 20% of clients are happy to be expecting and 80% are abortion fragile. The nurses welcome clients into an intake visit where her pregnancy status and her own health can be assessed. SMPC provides wrap-around care—most clients need behavioral health and social service navigation support, not just medical care. We work as a team—medical, behavioral health, and social services navigation—to ensure care is offered onsite to willing clients.”
Closing Our Community's Prenatal Care Gap
“SMPC aligns with other prenatal service sources across the area to close the healthcare gap. There’s a shortage of OB-GYN providers and within that shortage, there are barriers like health insurance, Medicaid, or non-acceptance of new clients,” Elaine says.
Elaine McFarland, RN, BSN
“SMPC’s cost-free prenatal care welcomes every woman seeking pregnancy care by providing risk assessment with exams, testing, labs, and ultrasounds. Imagine being an abortion-fragile woman and struggling to be examined by a medical provider.
What are your options? What are the pressures?
SMPC closes gaps by offering a journey accompanied by compassion and judgment-free care. She needs to know about her own health as well as the health of her developing baby. The Center takes care of her and gently moves her through a process towards a healthy pregnancy and delivery. It all begins with the nurse consultation in the initial intake visit. From there, viability and risk assessment informs what the process will look like and the client is invited to receive care for herself and her unborn baby," shares Elaine.
“If supporters ask ‘What can I pray for?’ I tell them we sometimes work through deeply emotional losses with our clients who suffer miscarriages or decide, even after our offers to help, to abort their babies. As first responders we feel and grieve their losses. Pray for us—for our strength and wisdom to be who we are called to be for God and for women and their babies.”
From Jennifer Carey, CEO
SARASOTA MEDICAL PREGNANCY CENTER
Hello, friends & generous supporters,
This issue brings you insight into the workings of SMPC's medical, behavioral health, and social services navigation care team. These are the professionals serving on the front lines for life. Each team member invests love, compassion, and skillfulness into each client’s life. When a woman walks into the Center, she is unconditionally welcomed and cared for with expert and professional skillfulness.
Jennifer Carey, CEO
Many clients enter SMPC’s doors abortion fragile. The medical and care team understands. They gently come alongside clients to assess health and pregnancy status. Generous people such as you underwrite the tools needed to protect tiny lives and their mothers.
Because of abundant donor support, SMPC's medical and care teams have been able to close the fragile prenatal care gap during our community's critical provider shortage.
To inspire your end-of-summer gift, several supporters have pledged to match your donation up to a cumulative total of $30,000 for gifts made by October 15, 2025. The match will be automatically applied, doubling your gift's value.
Thank you for making your gift to Sarasota Medical Pregnancy Center today.
The prenatal care provisions underwritten by SMPC donors provide wrap-around holistic care for mother and developing baby. The struggles and obstacles mother and baby face—provider shortages, medical insurance coverage, Medicaid access, among other emotional pressures—can provoke a response to abort a baby. Over the 23+ years Sarasota Medical Pregnancy Center has been providing cost-free medical care with testing, labs, exams, and ultrasounds, and now with behavioral health and social service navigation, saving thousands of tiny lives. The mothers who carried these precious lives are always thankful they did not choose abortion.
Become a monthly First Responder for Life. Commit to saving tiny lives and the mothers and fathers who want to raise them. Look inside the attached remittance envelope for suggested monthly sustainer giving levels.
Monthly donors provide financial stability.
SMPC’s doors swing open to everyone—the at-risk and underserved, the frightened and tempted to abort—the women who need to be assured that they are strong enough in an unplanned or unexpected pregnancy to become the best mother for their child.
SMPC thanks you, the donors who make the financial support possible, and for Dr. Jack Sullivan, Jr. for his compassionate and tireless oversight as SMPC’s volunteer medical director.
You are an important part of the SMPC family and we thank you!
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Upcoming Events
A Loving Tribute
A Night of Support for You
If you, or someone you know has experienced a pregnancy loss, join us for a honoring time of remembrance and support at Sarasota Medical Pregnancy Center
Thursday, October 23rd from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. 1762 Hawthorne Street, Sarasota
RSVP: Call 941-702-9974 email events@sarasotapregnancy.com
Martha & baby Padme
“I appreciate the SMPC supporters because the Center provided help for me and my baby. I met new people and their babies, I took motherhood & baby classes, and I learned what to expect during my pregnancy and Padme’s birth. I’m thankful SMPC welcomed me,” Martha, client and baby Padme’s mom.
“I did not believe abortion was right. How can anyone get rid of a baby? It's heartbreaking to even think about.”
Mark your calendar for the 2026 Life Is Beautiful! gala at The Ora on March 12th & 13th. Registration details coming to your mailbox soon!
A copy of the official registration and financial information may be obtained from the division of consumer services by calling toll-free 1-800-435-7352 within the state. Registration does not imply endorsement, approval or recommendation by the state. Registration number: CH23368. 100% of each contribution is received by Sarasota Medical Pregnancy Center. 1762 Hawthorne Street, Suite 5 Sarasota, FL 34239 941-264-1407 contact@sarasotapregnancy.com www.sarasotapregnancy.com SMPC’s focus is to provide cost-free medical, educational, social services navigation, behavioral health, and men’s and couples’ coaching to assist underserved and at-risk women and their partners who find themselves in unplanned or unprepared pregnancies.
