Nye Partners in Women’s Health

I have been going to Dr. Nye for years and have always enjoyed my experiences. You will wait a while for your appointment, but only because the doctors take their time with each patient. The first visit I was annoyed but after becoming acclimated I appreciated that when it was my turn, I was also given that much attention. I have seen all the doctors in the facility and have enjoyed each one. Caring, trustworthy and competent.

This is a great practice. I can’t say enough good things about them. They took excellent care of me during my pregnancy. Dr. Nye is funny, caring, and very good at what she does.

I went here after a birth where I was code blue and my heart and lungs failed after c section and preeclampsia. They did not deliver me.
However I had just been thru this terrible trauma. With a history of surgery for endometriosis, dermoid and an ultrasound from their office with fibroid and cyst and possible endometriosis. Dr. ADRIENNE RAY upon my last visit inserted an IUD that has had me bleeding ever since causing even more pain. Her solution to pain from fibroids and cysts was an IUD that has me bleeding since. When I asked for help for the pain, she all but called me a drug seeker. I don’t drink, smoke, use illegal drugs. The pain is still severe and REAL and she was so HORRIBLE in her treatment of me.
After all I had been thru and obvious problems even from my history and all the ultrasounds. I would not visit them. Their treatment of me was terrible. Beyond terrible. To go thru all I have and be treated this way. DO NOT GO HERE. I am still bleeding and in pain. And now I get to find another doctor to deal with this… horrible.

I cannot say enough good things about Dr Nye and her associates esp Cheryl the NP in river forest. I was extremely sick with hyperemesis gravidarum with both my pregnancies and was in and out of the hospital. Even if they were overbooked, they would somehow fit me in or send me to the Michigan Ave office. Dr. Nye and Cheryl literally saved my sanity and my babies by being there for me weekly almost until I had both my kids. I had the best birth experience because I had such a supportive team behind me and I cant thank Dr Nye and staff enough for giving me such a great experience.

I absolutely agree with the other reviews about waiting for hours and hours. I was supposed to be able to fit my appointment in on an extended lunch break. Little did I know that meant not being seen for over 2 ½ hours. Absolutely ridiculous for those of us who are trying to manage our workdays. I absolutely love Kelli, the PA. But trying to see Doctor Nye for the first time and waiting so long has me reconsidering continuing to go here.

Terrible. This place never returns phone calls. Day after day, my girlfriend calls and they say that the technician or the nurse or somebody will call her back, and they never do. For WEEKS this has been going on. Then they finally call back and they’ve messed up with the wrong insurance provider.
GF says the doctors provide good care, but the administrative nightmare is not worth it. She’s changing doctors.

Transferred to Nye Partners after my doctor moved, following Debbie from my prior doctor’s practice. Have had a very good experience, able to get appointments and no extended wait time when I arrive. Dr. Nye made me feel very comfortable and was thorough. Absolutely love Debbie, who my daughter continues to see.

I can’t say enough good things about Nye Partners. I had three pregnancies with complications, including one with a broken ankle that required surgery, blood thinners, and gestational diabetes monitoring. They bent over backwards to coordinate care with multiple teams of doctors and hospitals, including arranging for a nurse to make house calls to monitor me. Tons of emotional support. Great nurses and techs too.

BE PREPARED TO WAIT.
I always hate when people rate doctors offices based on their administrative staff, wait time, etc., but now I understand how important this is. No matter who you see, you will wait. and wait. and wait. I had an appointment last week with Dr. Nye and waited 1 ½ hours. She was wonderful, Debbie is wonderful, and Dr. Ray is also wonderful. But the wait time? Not so much. I have taken too much time off of work and I’m fed up. The only time I never have to wait is when I have an ultrasound. I’m right in and out!
If I were you, I would find another practice.

Nice doctor, but absolutely impossible to track down to get questions answered or tests ordered. Office just seems completely disorganized– I would have to call multiple times to get the same problem finally fixed. Just not worth spending the time chasing down everything (like insurance coverage) that other offices do without evening being asked.

If you have hours upon hours to kill every time you attend an appointment here, then this is the place for you!
Never have I ever been seen after waiting fewer than 30+ minutes, let alone anywhere near on time.
I make a point to show up to my appointments 15 min early. Each time, I find myself waiting for upwards of 45 minutes before I’m escorted to an exam room to wait for another 20 or so minutes before I even see the doctor or nurse practitioner.
This office is disorganized, horrible at communicating with its clients and doesn’t seem too concerned with remedying these issues.
Oh, and if you’re not pregnant, you can forget about timely follow ups and follow through.
My advice: find another office in your network and save yourself the hassle and TIME

Long wait times in the office for routine appointments, allow an extra half hour and get there 15 minutes early or you will wait longer. Nice doctors and nurse practitioners but the front desk staff could be friendlier.
Dr. Nye delivered my son and I absolutely loved her, and loved that this practice delivers at Northwestern.

Complete lack of organization. Complete lack of accountability on the part of the staff. I’ve had three of my past five attempts at an appointment canceled or rescheduled by their office (one on the day of the appointment). On my last appointment, a follow-​up visit, the doctor had no idea why I was there and she had not followed through on any of her action items. Thankfully, these were both routine check-​up type visits. I cannot imagine being in there with an actual health problem (or a pregnancy!). I keep patiently going back because the doctor was recommended to me, but I think I’ve now had enough.

This was at the River Forest location.
I can’t actually review the Dr. here because I never even saw her. I was scheduled for my first appointment today. The office called me yesterday to move my appointment to an hour earlier. I called back and confirmed. Today, I was there 15 minutes early. I waited for 1 hour and twenty three minutes without any explanation. Several patients were called ahead of me and I waited patiently thinking that they may have been there to see other doctors or nurses. When another new patient who stated she called that morning was seen before me, I decided it was time for me to leave and look for a new doctor. If this is how a practice is run I don’t want to subject myself to such poor planning. I work at an infertility clinic where you better believe a patient would know walking in if we were running more than twenty minutes late, let alone an hour and a half plus. Don’t waste your time, or like me a whole day off from work.

I absolutely LOVE Nye Partners in Women’s Health! I recently moved to Chicago, and being 30 weeks pregnant and trying to find a new doctor was not an easy thing to do. When I called Nye Partners, they accepted me in without any problems, and made the situation so much less stressful. Every time I’ve been in for an appointment, I’ve had less then a 15 minute wait, and the staff are nothing but nice and friendly. As long as we are in Chicago, I will continue to go through this practice!

As I started my 3^rd trimester, I found out my OB was moving! I’ve been seeing Debbie — nurse midwife — and she was not moving with the practice but instead joining Nye Partners so I followed her here.
The staff are all wonderful from the front desk, ultra sound tech, nurses, and doctors. I’m almost due and I feel very confident that they will take care of me during the delivery.
I would definitely recommend this practice and I for sure will use them for my future pregnancies.

Was seen by a nurse who rushed me through, ordered unnecessary and inappropriate testing. I was also proscribed progesterone supplements and given no option or educated as to why I needed them. The supplements made me sick, but when i questioned the nurse I was told that if I did not take the supplements I would have a miscarriage. I felt intimated.
I was not surprised to see other reviews by women who suffered unnecessary c-​sections and miscarriages at this location. C-​sections and complications seem the norm when your dealing in business over the human factor.
If you choose to go here please read about informed consent of patients, right to refusal, and know what you are being tested for. Ask questions and do not let them intimidate you. You are an important patient and not a number.
I decide to educate myself about birthing policies and determined that they put profit over patients. I switched to a midwifery and am much happier and healthy.

My review is for Dr. Hall, not Dr. Nye, but Nye Partners has several other OBGYNs. I would absolutely highly recommend Dr. Hall. I was doing a pap smear and some other tests but overall was incredibly IMPRESSED with her professionalism, kindness, and caring demeanor. It was very difficult to get an appointment with Dr. Nye but I promise you you will NOT BE DISAPPOINTED with Dr. Hall. She will find humor and fun in an otherwise not-​that-​exciting doctor’s appt, and could not be more delighted.
If you want something more urgent, do not set up an appointment with Dr. Nye, especially when she is on call. Set up an appt with Dr Hall and you will still be treated with the absolute best /​highest quality service and care, without the wait.

I don’t have all the time (or space) in the world to delineate ALL of the crappy experiences I have had here –last year, duing a rather protracted and traumatic miscarriage, and just today, as a somewhat-​worried 6-​weeks-​pregnant lady just trying to have her progesterone levels checked– but suffice it to say, GOD HELP YOU if you request that your records be sent to another physician. Not only do they make you go down there in person to fill out the form, and not only does it take them «7 to 10 days» to have them sent over… but you may just get treated to a 3^rd-​degree/​sales pitch by one of the higher-​ups, demanding to know why you’re leaving while trying to convince you to stay. In the waiting room. In front of the other patients/​customers. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
(The one star is for Kelly, the wonderful NP there –who, unfortunately, you are not guaranteed to interact with, even if you ask for her and say you’ll wait if she’s with someone else– and Dr. Ray: again– no guarantee you’ll get her specifically.)

I was a patient here in 2011 with my first pregnancy. I had one regular checkup, which I thought went fine, and then once I was pregnant I was visiting regularly.
The office scheduling/​front staff was always respectful but perhaps a bit clueless. I got the impression that they were completely overloaded with work and just didn’t have enough time in the day to take care of all of their duties. I wouldn’t fault them for this, but instead the management of the office. There could obviously be some improvements in terms of spreading the work around and possibly hiring more staff.
This is about where the compliments end. For my first 6 appointments or so (until I was about 28 weeks) I had all of my appointments with the nurse. She had a weird bedside manner that was condescending but at the same time, like the front office staff, always seemed frazzled and that she had no idea what was going on. Every appointment with her was like meeting her for the first time. Her tone was very patronizing, as if I was a class A idiot for asking questions.
This practice is also very by the book, but not in a good way. For example, my 8 week u/​s showed a small cyst on my ovary. As it turns out, this is a very normal occurrence and the cyst typically disappears by the halfway mark in the pregnancy. I wish I had known that, because the nurse and doctors acted as if this was some kind of state of emergency. They started talking about the complications of cysts in pregnancy, potential surgery or miscarriage, and all of this other stuff that was totally unnecessary and it totally freaked me out. I had 2 follow-​up ultrasounds just to check on the size of the cyst, at 12 weeks and 14 weeks. I’m happy to get more peeks at my baby, but at the same time, this just felt like a grab to charge my insurance more. Like almost all cases, the cyst disappeared.
I had the same «emergency freak out» treatment when I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. I was immediately treated like some kind of high risk, special, highly alarming case. First, it was if they had no idea what the protocol was for a GD patient. No one knew where to send me for the next steps. Then, when we did sort it out, it involved weekly blood draws rather than daily monitoring at home. I was expressly told DO NOT MONITOR my sugar at home. This is just crazy advice, and once again, is a money grab. Charge my insurance for labs, and then some random lady at Northwestern can charge my insurance too when I meet with her weekly just to pee in a cup, get another blood test, and talk about the diet. I had already met a dietician separately. The entire Northwestern connection with the diabetes treatment was superfluous.
The same day that I came in to finally sort out who I needed to see next for my GD diagnosis, (at 28 weeks) Dr. Nye herself came into my appointment to tell me that I would be having a c section. She explained that GD babies are larger and I would be scheduled for surgery in my 39^th week. I asked her how we could know this early, and why wouldn’t we watch the size as I go along and see whether or not surgery is a must, to which she replied, «I will not have your baby die because you wanted to have a vaginal delivery.» How are those things the same? At 28 weeks, you’re deciding I’m having a c section before you even have an idea of what size my baby is? She also told me that based on my labs from the glucose test, I «must have already had diabetes» before I got pregnant. Um, actually, no I didn’t. Also, my follow-​up appointments post-​pregnancy have shown I am negative for diabetes. Once again, alarmist behavior and huge jumps in logic based on very little information. I noticed very alarmist behavior and all of the ass-​covering decisions you would expect from a doctor fearful of being sued. I was also 28 weeks pregnant and this was my first meeting with anyone other than the nurse.
At about 32 weeks, my husband got a job offer that moved us to Denver when I was 34 weeks, and I dodged a MAJOR bullet. The doctors, nurse, and Northwestern GD connection was getting unbearable.
So here’s how I would summarize my care:
*Treated like one of hundreds of patients, even when seen regularly.
*Seems like they’ve bitten off more than they can chew. Too many patients has led to poorly trained staff, disorganization, communication issues, and gilted patients.
*Medical decisions are made based on probability of getting sued and potential to charge more for services.
*Any complications, even typical ones, are treated with alarmist behavior and over-​the-​top confusion and panic. Extremely ridiculous.
In short:
*If I was planning on getting pregnant or looking for an OB for my pregnancy, I would NOT GO HERE.
*If I just needed an annual exam, and this office was close, took my insurance, and I had no other medical issues, I would go. But the minute I needed anything more than that, I would be immediately looking for another practice.