A new Hackensack Meridian Health program includes sexual and pelvic-floor health. Read about its stated scope, evidence limits and practical questions.
On October 8, 2026, Hackensack Meridian Health announced its Midlife Women’s Health and Longevity Program. The health system says the program brings hormonal and sexual health into a coordinated model that also includes pelvic-floor care. Its stated scope places these concerns alongside primary care and other areas of midlife health.
The program is based at the Hackensack Meridian Health and Wellness Center in Paramus. The announcement identifies the center as part of Hackensack University Medical Center.
For readers interested in sexual wellbeing during menopause, the notable feature is its explicit inclusion. Sexual health appears among the program’s named areas of care rather than remaining an implied part of a general menopause service.
The announcement describes a multidisciplinary women’s midlife health service. Here, multidisciplinary refers to a model intended to coordinate several areas of care rather than focus on a single symptom or treatment.
According to the health system, the program’s scope includes:
This is a broad service description. It puts menopause-related concerns within a wider account of health rather than presenting hormonal care as the program’s only purpose.
The population described is women in midlife. WHO’s broader information about menopause provides useful context for that life stage, but it should not be read as a description of this particular program’s patients.
The distinction matters when reading the announcement: its subject is the organization of care. The health system is describing which areas it intends to bring together and why it believes coordination matters.
In the health system’s announcement, sexual health and pelvic-floor health are both named within the program’s scope. That wording makes them visible parts of its proposed midlife-care model.
For someone reading about menopause services, this is a useful distinction. A general reference to women’s health does not communicate the same information as a service description that specifically names sexual wellbeing. Here, readers do not have to infer whether the subject belongs within the program’s stated remit.
The announcement identifies Kanchi Chadha, M.D., as program director. Chadha describes midlife care in the United States as fragmented. She says patients may see different clinicians for hormonal symptoms, general health and heart health. Bone density and metabolic concerns may involve other clinicians as well.
Her rationale is that care divided across specialties may leave clinicians without a whole-person view of a patient’s midlife health. This is the program director’s explanation of the problem the model is intended to address.
Read in that light, the announcement is about more than adding sexual health to a list. Its organizing idea is to consider several areas of midlife health within a coordinated service. That gives readers a concrete example of how a health system is defining the place of sexual wellbeing in menopause care.
The primary source is a Hackensack Meridian Health announcement published on Newswise. It is not an independent evaluation, an observational study or an experimental trial. It provides no patient dataset, sample size or follow-up period.
There are no comparative results showing whether the program improves sexual function or other health outcomes. The announcement also does not describe specific assessments, treatment protocols or clinicians’ roles. It leaves the practical workings of coordination unexplained.
Access details are similarly incomplete. The article does not specify eligibility criteria, referral requirements or insurance coverage. Although it describes a women’s midlife health program, it does not establish that the service includes men or directly addresses men’s midlife sexual-health needs.
The announcement also states that 70% of women experiencing menopause symptoms are not receiving related care. It supplies no named study, methodology or definition of “related care” for that figure. The number should therefore be treated as an unattributed claim in the announcement rather than an independently verified prevalence estimate.
These limits establish the right level of confidence: the source supports an account of the program’s stated scope and institutional rationale. It does not establish its effectiveness, accessibility or superiority to other ways of delivering care.
The program’s broad framing is consistent with WHO’s description of menopause as a transition with physical, emotional, mental and social implications. WHO calls for appropriate health-system responses alongside provider capacity-building and access to information and services.
WHO reports that most women experience menopause between ages 45 and 55. It also notes that many spend more than one-third of their lives post-menopausal. That life-course perspective gives menopause care a wider context than a short period of symptom management.
In its discussion of menopause and sexual health, WHO says sexual health remains relevant throughout life. It also notes that older people’s sexual and reproductive health needs often receive limited attention in policy, programs and health services.
The connection is clear: WHO supplies a public-health rationale for taking these needs seriously. Hackensack Meridian Health’s announcement offers an example of a health system naming sexual health within a broader service model. This is alignment in approach, not a WHO endorsement of the program.
It also provides context for understanding sexual wellbeing across menopause. Sexual health belongs in a discussion of adult wellbeing without becoming the only lens through which midlife is understood.
The practical value of this announcement is the set of care questions it makes visible. Readers considering menopause services can look beyond whether a program uses words such as “comprehensive” or “coordinated.” A more informative starting point is which concerns the service explicitly includes and how it explains their place.
Questions grounded in this announcement include:
These are questions about the organization of care. They do not assume that a person needs every service listed or that all changes in sexual function have the same explanation. A broad program description can provide a starting point without becoming a personal care plan.
For someone interested specifically in the Hackensack Meridian Health program, the health system is the appropriate place to confirm appointment arrangements and other practical terms before relying on the announcement. Personal assessment and treatment decisions belong with qualified healthcare professionals who can consider the individual situation.
For readers looking at other services, the same distinction is useful. A program’s title communicates its focus. Its stated scope gives more detail. Asking how that scope translates into actual appointments is a separate and reasonable part of understanding care.
There is also no need to turn the full service list into a checklist of personal problems. Someone seeking information about sexual comfort as they age may have different questions from someone seeking general menopause education. The purpose of broader care is not to make every category relevant to everyone.
The announcement’s most meaningful feature is therefore straightforward: sexual health has been named as part of midlife healthcare. Alongside WHO’s life-course perspective, that places the subject within an ordinary conversation about health rather than outside it.
A fuller picture of midlife does not require every experience to become a medical concern. It leaves room for sexual wellbeing to matter when it matters to the person living it.
Bringing multiple specialties together still leaves readers needing clear explanations of sexual function, which Sexential supplies through mature educational coverage. For people uncertain about what influences a change, the publication connects hormonal and physical considerations with psychological and relationship context to support understanding rather than individual diagnosis or treatment.
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