SJM_PROFILE_Advocare_Womens_Group_1021_profile 10 / 27 / 21 1 : 44 PM Page 2 PROMOTION B U S I N E S S S P O T L I G H T ‘ More Than a Medical Practice ’ The all - female team at Advocare The Women’s Group for OB / GYN is dedicated to helping other women make informed decisions by MADELEINE MACCAR about their own health . Jennifer Travis , one of the midwives , early 16 years ago , when nurse practi - joined Advocare’s Women’s Group in 2018 , tioner ( NP ) Paula Jasionowski joined and previously worked with the team when what would become Advocare The N she was a labor and delivery nurse at an Women’s Group for OB / GYN , she was JENNIFER TRAVIS PAULA JASIONOWSKI area hospital . Before her job change , she drawn to the concept of an all - female “ A nurse practitioner looks at the whole went back to school first to become both an team administering women’s medical care . person , ” says Jasionowski . “ It’s not just the NP and a midwife . “ It’s specifically a women - run team of physical : It’s the mental and the emotional . “ We have the strongest midwifery pres - clinicians , which was important to me , ” she Nurse practitioners have always been like ence in the labor and delivery unit , ” she says . “ I’ve worked with male physicians in that , but not everybody has the time to be explains . “ I think patients like to have the the past and they’re excellent , but if you’ve that thorough . You might have a 15 - minute camaraderie of someone who’s in the room never had painful cramps or delivered a baby slot to see a patient , but then you find out with them a lot , helping them through the yourself , you don’t know what that’s like . I love their father just died or process and reassuring them constantly . We the idea of women taking care of women . ” they’re not sleeping have a very low C - section rate because at night or they’re having hot flashes , and we do all the laboring of our patients : you have to address that . It’s never just , ‘ We’ll We’re very patient with them , we allow do a breast exam and a pap smear and then them to get into labor and we get them you’ll be on your way . ’ ” ready for the home stretch of some very Both NPs are proud to be part of a med - long labors . But we are present for ical group that patients keep coming back to patients ’ C - sections , or who had prior and praising — oftentimes , for generations . C - “ People like that the NPs are generally sections . ” present in the office and more readily avail - She , too , believes that “ women able , ” Travis notes . “ With the nurse practi - understand women best . ” tioners , midwives and doctor we have here , “ I’ve been an advocate for women the camaraderie among the staff makes for a long time , and I believe that some - patients feel like they belong here and are times women aren’t taken seriously in health Having spent half of her career at Advo - cared about . ” carewhen they go to their providers with com - care , she still believes no one understands “ You lose patients not because of your plaints , ” Travis says . “ When a woman tells me women’s health concerns like female clin - clinician but because of how they’re treated , something’s not right , I believe her . ” icians and NPs do . and we want our patients to feel welcome from Being staffed by a team that is genuinely “ One of the reasons I became a nurse the second they walk in , ” adds Jasionowski . interested in providing high - quality service practitioner for women was that I don’t means satisfied patients , and both Travis think we Ourdoctor has delivered some of our patients , “ get an equal deal when it comes to and Jasionowski agree that their practice’s high their children and their grandchildren . So medical care , ” Jasionowski says . “ When I ratings , patient retention rates and enthusi - in addition to how they feel when they come started , if you went to the doctor with a astic referrals to family and friends speak in , they have that continuity of care . ” complaint , it was always , ‘ Oh , it’s your hor - volumes about the care their team provides . And the group is always happy to extend mones , it’s your nerves , it’s your lifestyle . ’ I “ When they come in , they experience that warm welcome to new patients . think , as women , we can appreciate what the family environment we have with our “ If you don’t know us , come and meet other women are going through , and some patients , ” says Travis . us , ” says Jasionowski . “ We’re more than a of us have been there ourselves . ” n “ A lot of our patients came to us specif - medical practice . ” Advocare The Women’s Group is South ically Jersey’s first and oldest all - female practice because we’re NPs and all women , ” for women’s health , and employs one board - Jasionowski adds . “ There are certain ethnic - certified physician , a certified menopause ity groups that will not allow a male clinician Advocare The Women’s practitioner , an NP and five midwives / NPs , to see them , but a lot of our patients come all of whom share a deep commitment to to us because they’ve been to other groups Group for OB / GYN personalized patient care and education . and they want a female team taking care 2301 Evesham Road , The team handles all manner of obstetrical of them . ” Building 800 , Suite 122 , and gynecological needs , and remains Having several NPs on staff also means Voorhees | ( 856 ) 770 - 9300 among the region’s few all - women providers that the team can continue to treat not just AdvocareWomensGroupOBGYN.com of such services . symptoms but the entire patient . 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