Our Midwives
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Elizabeth Garcia, CNM, MS
Elizabeth Garcia graduated from Michigan State University in 1996, with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She has eight years of experience as a high risk labor and delivery nurse, prenatal nurse educator, diabetic nurse educator, and perinatal nurse. In 2004 she earned her Master of Science in Nurse-Midwifery from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Spanish is her primary language.
Liz is excited to have the opportunity to provide bilingual and bicultural care to the Latino suburban community as well as women of all ethnicities. She is an active member of the American College of Nurse- Midwives and Illinois Society for Advance Practice Nurses.
She is currently a Board Member of the American College of Nurse Midwives Illinois Chapter IV.
Janet Ford, CNM, MS
Janet has business and legal administration degrees from Harper College and Robert Morris College and worked for 13 years at the Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal law firm in Chicago. She received her BS in Nursing from Northern Illinois University and her MS in Nursing/ Midwifery from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has worked as a labor & delivery nurse at the University of Chicago Hospital and Alexian Brothers Medical Center.
She is also a certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) and excited to help new mothers with breastfeeding concerns. Janet enjoys working with women of all ages and backgrounds and providing compassionate and personalized care. Janet, her husband and three children are longtime residents of Elk Grove Village.
Free time is enjoyed with her family, traveling, biking, improving her Spanish and volunteering at Queen of the Rosary School & Parish