Wellnest Fertility cuts ribbon on new, state-of-the-art clinic in South Ogden
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- A ribbon-cutting ceremony for Wellnest Fertility, located at 1491 E. Ridgeline Dr. in South Ogden, was held on Thursday, March 6, 2025.
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- The embryology lab at Wellnest Fertility, located at 1491 E. Ridgeline Dr. in South Ogden, photographed on Thursday, March 6, 2025.
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- An exam room at Wellnest Fertility, located at 1491 E. Ridgeline Dr. in South Ogden, photographed on Thursday, March 6, 2025.
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- A ribbon-cutting ceremony for Wellnest Fertility, located at 1491 E. Ridgeline Dr. in South Ogden, photographed on Thursday, March 6, 2025.
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- An exam room at Wellnest Fertility, located at 1491 E. Ridgeline Dr. in South Ogden, photographed on Thursday, March 6, 2025.
SOUTH OGDEN — A ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of Wellnest Fertility, billed as Northern Utah’s only full-service fertility clinic, was held in South Ogden on Thursday afternoon.
Mayor Russ Porter, city council members and representation from the Ogden-Weber Chamber of Commerce joined staffers at the new, state-of-the-art clinic — located at 1491 E. Ridgeline Dr. — to mark the occasion.
“(We) love our businesses here — all businesses — but especially one like this that really helps families and creates families,” Porter said. “We’re just really happy to have this business here and the mission that they have.”
According to Wellnest CEO Heather West, creating families and connecting patients with all the various forms of care they might need along the way is the business’ ultimate goal.
“Integration of mental health and support services is not the standard of care in fertility treatment,” West told the Standard-Examiner. “Patients don’t have any resources. They have to go out and find their own resources, or they don’t find mental health or health and wellness resources at all. And that, unfortunately, leads to patients limiting their family size.”
To that end, Wellnest offers wraparound support services like yoga, acupuncture, mental health care, support groups and more, leveraging local specialists and resources.
“We have found community partners in Ogden — everything from mental health professionals who have fertility expertise to diet and nutrition, yoga, meditation partners — so that we are able to provide this curated list of partners to our patients,” West said. “Then, we bundle the services, as much as we can, into the actual cost of care.”
South Ogden’s Wellnest clinic is the first of several that are being planned in secondary markets around the U.S. where access to fertility care is limited. And it brings with it the only on-site embryology lab in the Weber-Davis area.
In lieu of traditional embryo monitoring processes, Wellnest employs specialized incubators allowing for less-invasive time-lapse embryo monitoring. Meanwhile, the facility’s medical director, Dr. Nastaran Foyouzi, is one of just a handful of reproductive geneticists working in the United States.
Wellnest’s South Ogden arrival comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s executive order directing policy recommendations to protect access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and reduce connected out-of-pocket and health plan costs.
According to West, Wellnest is working on ways to decrease costs for its patients.
“We have put in place pricing adjustments for teachers, for health and safety professionals, firefighters, police officers,” West said. “These are folks who are really important to the community. Military personnel … We’ve been really focused a lot on that. We are working on a grant program, again, that would allow us to reduce the cost of care.”
For more information, go to https://www.wellnestfertility.com/.
