The office staff, physicians and sonographers are so friendly and caring each time I come in for an…read moreappointment. I have been a patient here for well over 20 years. Today, I want to thank Maryann, sonographer for the extra time she took with me to explain the entire process, just to put me at ease. Additionally, she also used just the right amount of gel for a flawless procedure. If you have a choice for your next ultrasound, she's the one to see!!

I have seen several of the doctors and midwives over the years at the WHCG's Overland Park…read morelocation. I have been very pleased with each one. Dr. Schlicter delivered my first baby but retired right after. Since then I had Dr. Proffitt and Dr. Moulton for prenatal care and from a women's health perspective they were both intelligent, caring and passionate providers. Dr. Proffitt delivered my second son and I would absolutely trust him to do it again. I think he ran from his office to the hospital ; - ) There are times when the doctors are called out to the adjacent hospital ( Overland Park Regional) and the other providers have to fill in - when that happens scheduling does a great job of alerting you so that you can reschedule or see another provider. Friendly nursing, administrative staff and billing staff. Accessible online portal. Billing staff is great and the office is kid friendly and clean.

My experience with Dr. Lyda Pung was terrible. I saw her because I was having stabbing pain daily…read morein the region of my cervix and hadn't had a period in almost two years with no symptoms of menopause and no pregnancy. I had been seen at the ER, where they found a fibroid taking up about half of my uterus. She brushed off my concerns about the lack of periods and about the fibroid entirely and prescribed depo as a stab in the dark to try to manage the pain. It did control the pain but at my size I couldn't afford to gain the 30lbs it made me put on so I stopped it. She never suggested any follow-up imaging to see if the fibroid was stable and when I insisted on it, after I received the results I got a call from her office that it was stable in size. I had already compared the results, and the fibroid had in fact more than doubled in volume! I pointed this out and when the nurse called me back after talking to Dr. Pung, I was told they never received the original ultrasound. How could they say my fibroid was stable in size if they have no basis for comparison? They flat out lied to me. I wouldn't trust Lyda Pung as far as I could throw her.

I had my first baby with them! They are amazing! I absolutely love it here, I'm not pregnant again…read moreand they know exactly what to do!

Blissful beginnings doula service is an excellent service. I had support from the moment I met Mrs…read more Janice Ingram. She is a delightful woman who knows as much as she can about the field of birth care and postpartum support. She's honest and straightforward she won't just tell you what you want to hear but what you need to hear. Janice's team is like a tight knit family and she has many resources to lean on if she needs it. She is kind and patient. I am glad that I chose blissful beginnings doula service to support my family and advocate for my birth plan. Janice was there for me through and through and made sure I had a strong and capable doula by my side while I birthed my baby boy for a second successful VBAC. Delia was my doula for labor and she was excellent. Delia supported my husband and I while we worked together in harmony to bring my baby home safely and empowered me to finish strong naturally. If you don't decide to proceed with a doula Janice still provides a very thorough Birth/Postpartum Health class that will empower and educate you to help you make the best informed decisions for your birth plan. I highly recommend blissful beginnings for your next birth!

Was referred by my PCP and she spoke highly of the care here. Unfortunately, when I called to set…read moreup an appointment I was met with the most unprofessional receptionist. After waiting a significant time on hold when she answered she was immediately rude and condescending. I had questions about what type of appointment my needs would be and she scoffed at my lack of understanding. She then told me I would need to find my birth control records from over 10 years ago to even schedule an appointment. I asked why and she told me her providers are so booked in advance I should just try somewhere else and hung up. I'm sure the providers here are lovely but you seriously need a new receptionist. She's the first person people speak to so she's the face of your company and it's not a nice face.

Dr. Swartzman delivered 4 of my children 20+ years ago, so when my daughter needed an urgent…read moreappointment with a GYN, I naturally tried to go where I knew she would be well taken care of. With that being said, I called to schedule an appointment for her after being seen in the ER for a severe prolapsed uterus, and was told we can't schedule an appointment until the records are received and reviewed from the ER. Excuse me??? Then, the receptionist said it will likely still be February before she could be seen. No sense of urgency. No empathy. No let me take a message and have a nurse call you back to see if she needs to be seen/worked in.

We found this absolutely amazing ultrasound facility in Kansas Shawnee, although we live 20 miles…read moreaway from this place, we still made it to get ultrasound for our baby. Recall to take an appointment and we were directed to the website to do any bookings, which is a great thing that explains the facility maintains their appointments online which seem to be very professional. We arrive for our appointment time and we met Sydney. She's an absolutely amazing caretaker, super professional, highly tech and everything inside the facility was looking aesthetic and modern. Looks like she took really good care of the place and at the same time she is taking amazing care for the people who visit there. There's a whole bunch of pictures that I have put and it looks like a vacation place Anna has a very good vibe very welcoming. We received Atmos care and very high customer service. She spoke to us very kindly, which made us very comfortable to share our thoughts and how we want things to be. There was a cooler with a lot of drinks for the people who are accompanying the patient. I highly recommend this place and I can assure you that the kind of care you will get there will be really good top notch.

Sydnee is the absolute best!! We felt so welcomed as soon as we arrived, and throughout the entire…read moresession I felt like I've known her my whole life! This was a beautiful and comfortable experience and we will 100% be back to visit!

Dr Amy Carter is excellent, very thorough and thoughtful. During my pregnancy I had gestational…read morediabetes, preeclampsia and a premature baby being delivered, but due to her high level of care, she was able to help me deliver a healthy and beautiful baby. I think she has a bit more wholistic view of the body, which is so very important in an obgyn!

From the minute we walked into your office-I KNEW we were at the right place. The ENTIRE staff…read morefrom check-in to post-op have been excellent. Dr Sneed is truly a ROCK STAR and what a great personality! Communication before surgery put us at total ease. Excellent explanations with every question thoroughly answered. At this office you can tell that it is a true TEAM effort which is hard to come by in today's wild world. Thanks to each one of you-you changed a life that was much in need- she (Miss Rose) is doing fantastic! If you are needing gynecological care, don't put it off - Dr. Sneed and her staff can help you.

Dr Sneed might be the best doctor I've seen in years! She's so passionate about what she does-a…read moregreat advocate for women's health. She spent time listening came up with a plan that worked for me and was able to correct the issue with surgery and I am thrilled with the result. Her NP, Brooke, is also wonderful.

The physicians and other staff have always made me feel at ease with any questions I have had…read moreregarding my pregnancies. They have walked me through both a pregnancy loss and healthy pregnancy. As heartbreaking as the loss was, the staff was very sensitive and supportive through it. Dr. Sarah Baldassaro is amazing! I definitely recommend this place to anyone looking for an OB-GYN.

TLDR: I did not feel cared for, supported, or welcomed at this practice except when with the kind…read morenurses (they do have the best nurses!). This practice is not physician-owned, but is a subsidiary of HCA Health. In other words, the doctors are employees (of HCA) and not owners of their own practice. I realized this after I had been visiting the office several months into my pregnancy during the most vulnerable period of my life when I needed the most support. Unfortunately, the fact that they are employees and not owners was, I felt, reflected in the level of care I received while pregnant. Early during pregnancy, I thought I might have a serious condition (which thankfully turned out just to be muscle strain), and when I called to ask if I could speak with a doctor or go in to be seen as I thought this might be an emergency, I was told they do not for any reason accept walk-ins, even for established patients, and that I could go to an ER (ER doctors are notoriously ignorant regarding OB issues and would have been of no help). I was very surprised that they would tell an established and concerned pregnant patient with a developing baby to go take her concerns to a random doctor who is not an OB. The doctors also would not call me back-I got a call back from a nurse. Again, these OBs are employees, so the level of ownership and care will be different from what one would expect from a physician-owned office. Most of my points of contact were with Dr Baldassaro and Dr Ahmed, the former who maintained an air of brisk professionalism, whatever her personal feelings toward me might have been, while the latter was unable to do even that. (Dr Parks and Dr Foster were lovely. I had the fewest points of contact with them, but they were professional and approachable in my one interaction with them each.) Dr Ahmed's demeanor and speech dripped with annoyance and disdain. At one point, she told me my birth would cost "70-80k" (though insurance would cover most of it) because of all of the different costs that would add up, "like the NICU"-a strange statement to make considering I had had a healthy pregnancy without any indications my baby would need the NICU (the birth ended up costing $10,000 and my baby never ended up in the NICU). When I expressed my concerns about certain procedures (like getting six ultrasounds in the last two months of pregnancy after I had already had three ultrasounds prior-the six additional ones I felt were excessive and unnecessary, though I understood the financial incentives for them as a business), and said I had googled the necessity and potential risks of getting so many ultrasounds, I was swiftly rebuked; "Google is the WORST place to get medical advice," Ahmed replied condescendingly. (I personally disagree and learned a lot from my Internet searches during pregnancy.) I was also pressured to induce my baby at 39 weeks because I had high blood pressure one afternoon (which dropped that evening and remained lower for the remainder of my pregnancy), a couple symptoms of preeclampsia, and the fact that I was of advanced maternal age (I had been 35 for three months). I was repeatedly told that there would be "no benefits" to waiting a single day more. I pushed back and insisted on not inducing until the 41st week. Dr Ahmed was clearly displeased with my decision not to immediately induce and reminded me that since I had signs of preeclampsia, I could have a stillbirth or suffer terrible, life-threatening consequences myself (including potentially "a stroke"), but she said she could not "force me" to stay and get induced if I did not want to, so I went home. I wanted to have a natural, spontaneous, unmedicated labor if possible, which I knew would be nearly impossible if I were induced (pitocin, the drug that is used to induce labor, causes artificially intense contractions, which almost always leads to an epidural because of the intense pain). I went home and a week later, went into spontaneous labor at 40 weeks, and had the quickest birth of my dreams at the hospital without an epidural or any complications. My baby was perfectly healthy, as was I. I hardly bled (I was told by the nurses I bled about 1/4 of the average amount), in large part I think because I did not listen to the OB's advice to take two baby aspirins daily during my pregnancy, which they had recommended due to my age (I went home and googled the side effects of taking two baby aspirins daily, and one was that I might bleed more during labor and delivery-so I skipped the aspirins). I realized I felt anxious and a sense of dread at every visit to this office, so as soon as I completed my required post-partum visit here, I decided to look elsewhere for an OB who would offer kind, compassionate, and supportive care.