Women's Care Annual Summit 2025

Helen serves as the Chief Medical Officer for Women’s Care Enterprises. Since her arrival in 2018, she has worked to set the clinical direction of the organization, collaborating with the more than 450 physicians and advanced practice providers across Women’s Care. Her particular areas of focus include quality and safety as well as risk mitigation. With her talented team, she has established a STEEEP dashboard of quality metrics and is continuing to undertake other innovative efforts including the APP University which will increase access and quality of care for our patients as well as the Ultrasound Academy to ensure our standardized approach to performing ultrasounds for our OB and Gyn patients allows the highest level of detail and accuracy in performing these studies. In any medical field, there will occasionally be challenging outcomes. Helen and her team have created an annual educational program that allows providers to continue to be lifelong learners through a variety of modalities that focus on various aspects of women’s health.

Helen is a native of Philadelphia, PA and attended the University of Pennsylvania for medical school and residency in Ob/Gyn. She has maintained her board certification for over 25 years and also completed a Master’s in Healthcare Quality and Safety from Thomas Jefferson University’s College of Population Health. Not wanting to get too far from the clinical world, she has recently started to pick up a few shifts delivering babies with the WHH hospitalists at Lakeland Regional Hospital. She is the proud mother of 4 young adult children and enjoys traveling the world with her husband in her spare time.

Ruth leads a team of experienced risk and client service consultants dedicated to delivering a holistic customer experience along with actionable risk reduction strategies.She has worked in healthcare risk management for more than 20 years and was the director of risk management at a large healthcare organization before joining MagMutual in 2017.Ruth earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Colby College and her Master in Business Administration degree from the University of Rhode Island. She is a Certified Professional in Health Care Risk Management (CPHRM) and Healthcare Safety (CHSP).

Closed Case Review Overview - Review of closed medical malpractice cases and highlighting opportunities to improve care and reduce risk. 

Please note: In person or simultaneous virtual meeting attendance is necessary to get CME’s.

Women's Reproductive Rights overview - Seminar that will cover the changing legal landscape facing the practice of OB/GYN in a post Roe v. Wade world. We will address topics related to fertility, abortion, gender issues, and other human rights. 

Dr. Alvarez is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, as well as a Diplomate for the National Board of Medical Examiners of the United States of America. Dr. Alvarez has 33 years of experience in the medical field. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Florida Medical Association, Polk County Medical Association, Christian Medical and Dental Association, and the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists.  

He served as a board member for A Woman's Choice from 2008 to 2013 and is a medical director at Plant City Pregnancy Care Center. Dr. Alvarez is also involved on the administrative side at Women’s Care as the Electronic Healthcare Records Chairman and is a member of the Board of Directors. 

Dr. Alvarez received his medical education from the Ponce School of Medicine, ranking 4th in his class of 45 students, was Student Council Representative, Class Secretary, and was on the National Dean’s List. He completed an internship and his medical residency at the State University of New York’s Department of OBGYN at the Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, where he was the Administrative Chief Resident and received the Vincent J. Capraro, M.D. Award for Outstanding Chief Resident in OBGYN.