Bethany Medical Clinic of New York, PLLC

Exciting New Chapter at Bethany Medical Clinic: Meet Our New COO, Natalie Miller! We are thrilled to announce a significant milestone that marks a new chapter for our practice, aimed at enhancing your experience with us. Introducing Our New COO: Natalie Miller We are delighted to welcome Natalie Miller as our new Chief Operating Officer, who started officially on May 1st and has hit the ground running. Natalie brings a wealth of experience and a fresh perspective that promises to elevate our operational management and, ultimately, your patient experience. Here’s why we’re excited: Extensive Experience: Natalie has an impressive track record, having successfully built and managed seven clinics in NYC over the past three years. Educational Excellence: She holds both a Bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the prestigious Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Proven Leadership: Her career spans strategy and operations roles in healthcare, including transforming a mature health system to an accountable care model and spearheading a new market Our Commitment to You With Natalie on board, we are committed to: Improving Communication: Addressing administrative issues and ensuring smoother interactions. Enhancing Patient Experience: Streamlining processes to make your visits more efficient and pleasant. Continuing Exceptional Care: Maintaining the high-quality care you’ve come to expect from us. Natalie is passionate about improving care delivery and patient outcomes. Here’s a message from her: "My name is Natalie, and I am passionate about improving care delivery and patient outcomes. My entire career has been in healthcare, focusing on strategy and operations. I have experience building and leading large teams and managing multiple sites. I am very excited to join Bethany and learn from each and every one of you to help the company succeed and grow!" Join Us in Welcoming Natalie! We invite you to return and experience the positive changes at Bethany Medical Clinic. Your feedback and suggestions are crucial to our continuous improvement. Let’s welcome Natalie and embrace the positive changes coming our way! Use this link to view our real-time availability and book with us: https://lnkd.in/ehkUZNt Shirin Peters, MD Founder, Medical Director

We have come so far in HIV testing, status awareness, prevention, and treatment that an HIV diagnosis is not the same as it was 10 and 20 years ago. I strongly agree that every primary care provider needs to educate themselves on the innovative approaches that we know are very effective in reducing disease and death from HIV, and to offer these approaches to high-risk communities. One of these offerings is PrEP (pre-exposure prevention) for HIV and in addition to the daily pill Truvada and Descovy a new injection that can be administrered every 60 days for prep is aproved and available this year: Apretude. For appropriate patients, this new form of PrEp makes it even easier to reliably and effectively prevent HIV infection. Its very exciting to be a part of this new frontier in preventing the spread of a previously devastating infection. Our trans-competent team at Bethany Medical Clinic is ready to support every patient with the most current therapies available from lgbtq-informed primary care, and HIV prevention, to rapid HIV testing and post-exposure prophylaxis for HIV, to complete and comprehensive STD testing, gender-affirming hormone therapy with an experienced and compassionate board-certified endocrinologist, and psychotherapy with experienced and inclusive therapists. #transhealth #HIVtesting #PrEP #thefutureofmedicine #inclusivecare #spreadthenews

On the importance of trusting your instincts about your health; the importance of a primary care relationship in the 12 month postpartum period; and the devastating impact of medical gaslighting for black women. Honored to touch on these very important topics with She Matters Inc in Black Maternal Health Week. #blackmaternalhealthweek #medicalgaslighting #healthequity #blackmaternalhealthmatters #bmhw2024

Its Black Maternal Health Week and Dr. Shirin Peters was privileged to have important conversations with the amazing founders of She Matters Inc on postpartum maternal health. The US rates of postpartum morbidity and mortality for black women are upwards of 4x non-black women. This astounding disparity CAN be solved with attention, access to postpartum primary care, education for pregnant women, and cultural competency anti-bias training for healthcare professionals and institutions. This company is working tirelessly to move the needle on closing this gap and I am honored to support them as a member of the Advisory Council. Access to culturally competent primary care in the 12 month postpartum period is very important for all women, and particularly for black women. Some of the most serious conditions that can happen in the postpartum period are: Postpartum hemorrhage. Postpartum preeclampsia. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Pulmonary embolism. Sepsis. Mental health conditions like postpartum rage or postpartum psychosis. Suicide Some symptoms that should prompt an urgent visit with a primary care provider or ER that you trust: Heavy vaginal bleeding. This generally means you’re filling a pad every hour for several hours. It can also mean that you’re bleeding more each day instead of bleeding less. Passing several large clots. A large clot is typically anything larger than a quarter. Passing one large clot is OK, but passing many could be a sign of a problem. Fever higher than 101 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius). New pains or an increase in pain. You should generally feel better over time, not worse. Foul-smelling vaginal discharge. Pain in your legs or ankles, especially