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Clinic Type

OB-GYN

Address

700 Zeagler Dr Ste 3, Palatka, FL 32177

Phone

1-386-530-2380

Email

Opening Hours

Monday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Tuesday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Wednesday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Services Offered

Team

  • Laila B. Needham, MD — Obstetrics & gynecology
  • Lindsay Anne Stubbs, NP — Certified nurse midwife

Insurance & Payment

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What Patients Say

Overall sentiment across review platforms: negative

  • PissedConsumer: 1.3 out of 5 stars (Based on 29-53 reviews (aggregated across WellMed Medical Management))
  • Birdeye (WellMed location): 2.7 out of 5 stars (12 reviews)

Patients praise

  • Strong average MIPS quality score (89.7/100) across the wider medical group as reported by CMS data
  • Providers are in-network with a broad range of insurance plans

Common complaints

  • Allegations of improper billing practices, such as billing midwife services at higher physician rates
  • Reports of poor customer service, including difficulty scheduling appointments and rude staff
  • Complaints regarding communication issues, such as failure to follow up after inquiries or incorrect information provided by office staff
  • General patient frustration with corporate management takeovers impacting care and billing efficiency

"WellMed/Optum's takeover of this practice has decreased the medical care, and their billing is a mess. The providers are not the problem; WellMed/Optum is."

PissedConsumer review

"Electronic records ... showed a midwife performed [the delivery] while the explanation of benefits reported that a doctor had."

NBC News report on billing practices at Florida Woman Care

Synthesized from public review platforms as of Jul 11, 2026 — sources: [1][2][3][4].

Information sourced from the clinic's website as of July 11, 2026.

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