Lower Columbia Women’s Clinic has been providing high quality OB/GYN care to our region for over eighty years. This stability has required flexibility and willingness to adapt to changing times.

The clinic started in 1924 when Dr. John W. Henderson was asked to provide women’s health services by R.A.Long. Dr. Henderson ran the clinic for several years and eventually went into politics and became a state senator from our district.

His son Dr. Philip H. Henderson joined the clinic in 1925 and was later joined by his son Dr. Philip H. Henderson, Jr. in 1953. The senior Henderson became ill and died in 1962.

The modern OB/GYN clinic started in 1965 when Dr. Henderson, Jr. and Dr. William Blackstone joined the practice. They added Dr. James Reisner in 1967 and a year later moved to the present clinic location at 790-14th Avenue in Longview. Dr. Furm Duncan, Jr. joined the group in 1974 and Dr. Philip H. Henderson, III in 1980.

Dr. William Blackstone died in 1983 and the clinic was left with four partners. In 1986 Dr. Aris Gredzens joined the practice followed by Dr. Douglas Whelan in 1989. Dr. Duncan relocated to Ontario, Oregon in 1994.

After Dr. P. H. Henderson, Jr. retired in 1995, Dr. Rebecca Kubitz joined Lower Columbia Women’s Clinic followed in 1998 by Dr. Homayoun Saraf.

In 2000, Dr. James Reisner and Dr. Rebecca Kubitz retired, leaving four remaining partners.

After 80+ years, through four generations and thousands of babies, Lower Columbia Women’s Clinic strives to provide personal and professional care. We plan to continue providing the most up to date obstetrical and gynecological healthcare to all women in our area.

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