While hospitals can feel very clinical, there’s a shop that offers products for women post-surgery with kind, friendly faces to provide support.Elisa Lawson created The Women’s Health Boutique at The Weinberg Center for Women’s Health and Medicine at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore almost 30 years ago. The boutique recently received an upgrade to a new space.Lawson told WBAL-TV 11 News that she worked at department stores but saw what was missing: Certain items that would help women who have just gone through tremendous losses and health issues.”To be able to give them the opportunity to take advantage of all of their benefits from their insurance company in an environment that feels like you’re shopping and the close connection we have with all the surgeons here allows us to introduce them to the new products so they can bring patients down,” Lawson told WBAL-TV 11 News.”I’m referring patients down here all day, every day just to really cross one thing off the checklist, all their practical concerns, their post-op recovery garments,” said Zoe Jafee, a breast cancer patient navigator.Products include specialty bras, breast forms, compression garments, wigs and more.”When I was going to get my single mastectomy, (I learned) that I would need a compression bra and I would need all these things and I was already overwhelmed, and they said, ‘Well, we have a place right here,'” said Heather van Keuren, a breast cancer survivor.”They showed me a plethora of items that I could purchase, and things that I could need to help me be better at what I needed to do for my cancer recovery,” said Karen Brooks, a breast cancer survivor.However, the products aren’t just items. The products come with people, many of whom are considered family by those who shop at the boutique.”They’re like my sisters now,” van Keuren told WBAL-TV 11 News. “I talk about them all the time and they really want to make sure that we feel as best as possible during one of the hardest things in our life.””It’s a place where we hug women and we welcome women, and we make them feel safe before their surgery,” said Jennifer Crawford, with The Women’s Health Boutique. “We cheer them on during their surgery and we take care of them for life after.”The boutique is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
While hospitals can feel very clinical, there’s a shop that offers products for women post-surgery with kind, friendly faces to provide support.
Elisa Lawson created The Women’s Health Boutique at The Weinberg Center for Women’s Health and Medicine at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore almost 30 years ago. The boutique recently received an upgrade to a new space.
Lawson told WBAL-TV 11 News that she worked at department stores but saw what was missing: Certain items that would help women who have just gone through tremendous losses and health issues.
“To be able to give them the opportunity to take advantage of all of their benefits from their insurance company in an environment that feels like you’re shopping and the close connection we have with all the surgeons here allows us to introduce them to the new products so they can bring patients down,” Lawson told WBAL-TV 11 News.
“I’m referring patients down here all day, every day just to really cross one thing off the checklist, all their practical concerns, their post-op recovery garments,” said Zoe Jafee, a breast cancer patient navigator.
Products include specialty bras, breast forms, compression garments, wigs and more.
“When I was going to get my single mastectomy, (I learned) that I would need a compression bra and I would need all these things and I was already overwhelmed, and they said, ‘Well, we have a place right here,'” said Heather van Keuren, a breast cancer survivor.
“They showed me a plethora of items that I could purchase, and things that I could need to help me be better at what I needed to do for my cancer recovery,” said Karen Brooks, a breast cancer survivor.
However, the products aren’t just items. The products come with people, many of whom are considered family by those who shop at the boutique.
“They’re like my sisters now,” van Keuren told WBAL-TV 11 News. “I talk about them all the time and they really want to make sure that we feel as best as possible during one of the hardest things in our life.”
“It’s a place where we hug women and we welcome women, and we make them feel safe before their surgery,” said Jennifer Crawford, with The Women’s Health Boutique. “We cheer them on during their surgery and we take care of them for life after.”
The boutique is open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Clinton Mora is a reporter for Trending Insurance News. He has previously worked for the Forbes. As a contributor to Trending Insurance News, Clinton covers emerging a wide range of property and casualty insurance related stories.