ROME — Rome Health Prenatal Care has added women’s health Nurse Practitioner Marguerite Shifrin to its team.

Located at 155 W. Dominick St., the center is accepting new patients who need obstetric or gynecologic care. For an appointment, call 315-338-7057.

The board certified women’s health nurse practitioner provides the full scope of gynecologic and obstetric care to women in the community.

“I am excited about growing the services available at the prenatal center to add preconception, contraception and family planning, breastfeeding care, and general gynecologic care to our robust obstetric program,” Shifrin said. 

Having grown up in rural New York, Shifrin is passionate about Rome Health’s promise of providing the best care out there, here.  “I could not imagine a more welcoming and wonderful health care community to join,” she said.

As a graduate of Duke University School of Nursing, excellence in rural and underserved medicine is Shifrin’s calling. Prior to her graduate degree, she worked in a variety of capacities as a nurse in women’s health, starting in 2003 with immersion in a free standing birth center and spending the next two decades committed to women’s health in a variety of roles including birth and lactation support.

Shifirin said she believes women’s health is foundational to the wellness of the population at large, “ensuring access to quality preconception, pregnancy, and preventive care for women is critical to maintaining our community’s health.”

She considers excellence in women’s health to be a human right which celebrates the importance of all people as they take an active role to improve their lives and that of their communities.