Moving to Boca/boynton Beach and Need an OBGYN

Of course, you should run around and find a doctor with whom you "click", but a practice I'd definitely say you should check out is the Women's Healthcare Associates. They have offices in both Boca and Boynton. My wife liked all of the doctors (sm practice... I believe that there were 5 partners) but we both *loved* Dr. Susan Biel. She's really on top of things and has a great bedside manner. They felt to me to be quite similar to the practice that you used in Charlston.

Beil Susan J MD
6853 SW 18th St
Boca Raton, FL 33433
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We have a number of friends who have all used the same practice, and all have loved them. (Soaring malpractice insurance costs have caused a lot of doctors to cease delivering down here, so it's a common practice to go to one of the practices that *does* deliver for the pregnancy and then return to your original doctor afterwards. (That's what we did, anyway.)

Feel free to contact my wife directly at ____@____.com if you'd like to ask her personally about her experiences.

As far as hospitals go, we used Boca Community for both of our deliveries and really liked the experience. Our first was in NICU, but only due to a long labor. The people are friendly and the ward is first rate.

West Boca is supposed to be rated higher (as a former NICU nurse, you'd understand the technicalities; I don't, other than when there is a delivery that can't be handled at Boca Community, they transfer to West Boca) but is much larger and feels less intimate and personal, at least to me.

Welcome to Florida, and good luck with #2!

-Scott (Husband of S.)

Congrats on your move!!!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE my ob/gyn.. He is in Boca across the street from the Boca Raton Community Hospital on Glades Road.. Dr. Kenneth Konsker ###-###-####..I have been going to him for 11 years and would NEVER switch again. When I switched insurances and he wasn't on my plan, I was DEVASTATED... Needless to say after a year of not seeing him, we switched to another insurance that he excepted... I HIGHLY recommend him.. He's kind, intelligent, hip, honest, funny, makes you FEEL REALLY comfortable, office is beautiful, all the nurses are GREAT... If you have a problem he will take you in within 24 hours, he has ultrasound machines in every room (not all doctors have that). Oh, and you will ONLY see Dr. Konsker, not other doctors, he shares a office with another ob/gyn but they have seperate patients...
I delivered at Boca Community Hospital 7 weeks ago and it was a GREAT experience!!!!!!!! Everyone was wonderful there... Made you feel very at home (especially the night nurses).... (not to knock Wellington AT ALL but my girlfriend delivered there 2 days after I had my son and did NOT like the nurses. She said they treated her like "another #", not to say they all are like that, but that was her experience there)......
Any other questions or concerns please feel free to email me personall at ____@____.com
GOOD LUCK and welcome to Florida!!!!!!!

Hi J.,
I am 4 weeks away from delivering my 2nd child and I have two great dr.'s to recommend. Dr. Ingrid Isdith and Dr. George Emerick, they are both in Boynton( on the corners of Jog and Le Chalet)..They are both great, it depends on wether you like a female or male..They deliver at wellington regional, which is has a level 2 nic unit, which I knew about from my son being premature..if you have any other questions, let me know.
PS. my pedatrician happens to be next door to the ob..Seitz pediatrics.. all the dr's are great.

L.

J., I can recommend Women's Healthcare Associates. It is a large practice with offices in Boca and Boynton. I opted to see one of the midwife/nurse practioners there and she was wonderful. Her name is Terry Defilippo and I saw her throughout my pregnancy. In the last trimester I saw the other nmw also, since she would be on call for deliveries. I ended up having an emergency c-section (breach baby)but I was very satisfied with their office.
I also have seen several of the Dr's there over the past 5 years, and I like them all...
The Boca office is the larger one... ###-###-####)
Good luck and welcome to Florida!
PS I can also highly recommend Boca Community Hospital; very comfortable maternity rooms,great nursing staff and great NICU nurses (my son was in for 17 days- he was 6 weeks preemie)

I also relocated while I was 28 weeks pregnant this summer from PA.
I had 4 different unrelated people recommend Dr. Fleischer.
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In terms of Hospitals both are equally good. Boca Community has free lactation consultants, while at West Boca you have to pay extra to see a lactation consultant. At West Boca they have a level 3 NICU. Boca Community has a level 2 NICU, and depending on when you have your baby and the when the new Boca Community hospital is ready, it will become a level 3 as well.