CANANDAIGUA – As of the beginning of August, UR Medicine Thompson Health certified nurse-midwife Bridget LaGro is accepting new patients.
LaGro first joined the Obstetrics & Gynecology practice at the health system’s Canandaigua Medical Group in May.
With a master’s in nurse-midwifery from Frontier Nursing University in Hyden, Ky., LaGro received her nurse-midwife training at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and at the Mayo Clinic and Hospital in Eau Claire, Wis. Previously, she worked as a registered nurse in neonatal intensive care units in Madison, where she was also a childbirth educator. She is certified by the American Midwifery Certification Board and a member of the American College of Nurse-Midwives.
The Canandaigua Medical Group is an affiliate of F.F. Thompson Hospital. Its OB-GYN practice has four locations and LaGro is based at the one in Canandaigua. She is one of three nurse-midwives with the practice, which also has five physicians – all of whom perform surgical procedures – as well as a family nurse practitioner and a physician assistant.
For more information, visit www.ThompsonHealth.com/OBGYN. To become a patient, call (585) 393-2800.