Katherine Willey, MSN
Katherine Willey, MSN
Specialties
- Midwifery
- Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN)
Locations
- Chicago - Hyde Park
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- Specialties & Areas of Expertise
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- Accepted Insurance
- External Professional Relationships
[AUDIO LOGO] My name is Katherine Willey. I go by Katie, and I am a Certified Nurse Midwife. So that's an Advanced Practice Nurse. And my area of specialty is women's health with a focus on reproductive cycle, delivering babies, birth control, that sort of thing. UChicago is just such a great place. It's a really unique academic center. There's so much research and just vibrancy here. And I wanted to be part of it.
Before I went into midwifery, I was actually a family nurse practitioner. I am still a family nurse practitioner. But in my practice I realized that my main area of focus, everything I wanted to do, related to women's health. I wanted to be focused on that. And I really loved prenatal care because you got to meet the patients and build that relationship over the course of the pregnancy and really get to know patients and their families. And I felt like that was just something that was really special and wanted that to be my area of focus. So then I went back to school and got my midwifery degree.
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Specialties
Areas of Expertise
Board Certifications
- Certified Nurse Midwife
Languages Spoken
- English
Medical Education
- Vanderbilt University; University of Kansas School of Nursing
Insurance
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO (specialists only)
- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Humana Medicare Advantage Choice PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Choice PFFS
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Plus HMO
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Choice HMO (specialists only)
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
- University of Chicago Health Plan (UCHP)
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