Metro Area Advanced Practice Healthcare

15/09/2025

Ready to make a difference in the lives of people in your community? Join our board and help us ensure access to reproductive healthcare for ALL. Reach out to us here or through our email.

15/09/2025

The justices declined to immediately overrule a lower court’s block on South Carolina’s bathroom ban law.

24/10/2024

Metro Area is starting our own Little Free Library in our waiting room!
Please contact us if you have any books to contribute. Prefer themes such as reproductive justice, q***r health/history/novels, feminism, health. Please no dieting books.

07/05/2023

16/04/2023

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22/01/2023

HELLO, MY NAME IS ____________.
Help name our new office mascot and win a Metro Area swag bag!

18/01/2023

The rumors are true! Liletta AND Mirena are both effective for up to EIGHT years.

Considering birth control options?
Liletta is a hormone-releasing system placed in the uterus to prevent pregnancy. The FDA has now approved Liletta for use up to 8 years. The extended duration of use for Liletta continues to provide women access to a reliable, long-term birth control option that offers greater flexibility and expands your choice of reproductive health decisions.
To discuss your options, call our clinic at 815-484-6300

13/01/2023

Proud to offer cervical blocks and use TENS units for our IUD insertions, along with Va**um and additional for those who need it. It sometimes does not take away all the pain but it helps many.

Every time someone asks me if I recommend IUDs after getting one myself I say one hundred percent yes, and also insertion is going to hurt really bad. I love my IUD, but I definitely wish someone had told me how painful insertion could be and that I had options for mitigating that pain. So, now I'm....

13/01/2023

Happy New Year! Coming soon, we have major changes to announce!

Metro Area Advanced Practice Healthcare will be splitting and some of our services will be handled by our newest member of the Metro Area family, Metro Area Modern Reproductive Care (which will handle abortion services and quick, uncomplicated birth control refills). It's still the same Metro Area you know and love, but this allows us to focus our offerings for your well-being. If you have any questions about the upcoming changes, please direct them our way and we are happy to answer.

We are launching VERY soon!
The newest branch of the Metro Area family, focused on getting your reproductive care the modern way with online consults, new instructional videos, and more!

26/12/2022

Happy Holidays! We are closed today to give our staff time with their families. Prescriptions are being processed and sent, and messages in the portal will be responded to.

We are also going to be closed on Monday, January 2.

From all of us, have a wonderful holiday season.

21/10/2022

Please join us for a pre-release screening of Call Jane this Tuesday! Ticket sales will benefit Metro Area and We Testify. See you there! Ticket link in comments.