Elizabeth Kennard's Online Review Report Card

We received care in December 2021 and January 2022 with Ohio Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Kennard was our primary physician. We met with her via telehealth and explained our concerns regarding fertility. Instead of making us feel as though she cared, she spent the first 13 minutes of our appointment telling us that we were "grandma killers" because we were not yet vaccinated for COVID. She eventually stopped when my husband asked her if she was billing us for this lecture. Our initial appointment ended with recommendations for medication and standard fertility treatment procedures. We began following protocol from a distance, due to COVID. Eventually, I became pregnant. My husband and I were overjoyed! This is what we came here for. We thought that ORM would share our sentiment. We immediately scheduled an ultrasound with them. We got in contact with my regular OB, who was worried about the pregnancy due to low progesterone. We feared the worst, but were looking forward to at least seeing a picture of our baby if anything. We had our appointment for the ultrasound with Dr. Kennard in January 2022. When we entered the office, my husband was immediately kicked out. "No family members allowed!" they said. I tried to explain that this might be the only time my husband and I could see our baby, and I wanted to experience my first ultrasound and pregnancy with my husband by my side. The front desk staff refused. We decided it was fine, COVID was a difficult time for everyone. When I got to the ultrasound room, I was crying a bit. Dr Kennard entered the room. She took one look at me and told me to “suck it up” and that it was not a big deal. She looked at the fetus and said that it doesn’t look like it’s developing correctly. I wasn’t surprised, but still somewhat heartbroken by the news. I asked her for a printout picture. She responded with “Why? Nothing is there anyway, I just said that.” I was stunned. How could anyone say such a thing? I didn’t know what to say, and was still crying, so I just said I wanted one anyway. I got out of the clinic as soon as possible. My entire experience with this clinic has been a nightmare. Please, look for another provider if you are even remotely considering this place. At the very least, please know what Dr. Kennard is really like. I don’t want any couple to go through the same thing we did. The fertility journey is difficult enough, and it doesn’t need to be complicated by blatant unprofessionalism, poor bedside manner, and incompetent staff.

We received care in December 2021 and January 2022 with Ohio Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Kennard was our primary physician. Instead of making us feel as though she cared, she spent the first 13 minutes of our appointment telling us that we were "grandma killers" because we were not yet vaccinated for COVID. She eventually stopped when my husband asked her if she was billing us for this lecture. Eventually, I became pregnant. We immediately scheduled an ultrasound. We eventually learned that it looked like we were going to lose the baby. At the ultrasound, Dr. Kennard took one look at me and told me to “suck it up” and that it was not a big deal. She looked at the fetus and said that it doesn’t look like it’s developing correctly. I wasn’t surprised, but still somewhat heartbroken by the news. I asked her for a printout picture. She responded with “Why? Nothing is there anyway, I just said that.” I was stunned. How could anyone say such a thing? I got out of there as soon as possible.

We received care in December 2021 and January 2022 with Ohio Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Kennard was our primary physician. We met with her via telehealth and explained our concerns regarding fertility. Instead of making us feel as though she cared, she spent the first 13 minutes of our appointment telling us that we were "grandma killers" because we were not yet vaccinated for COVID. She eventually ...

We received care in December 2021 and January 2022 with Ohio Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Kennard was our primary physician. We met with her via telehealth and explained our concerns regarding fertility. Instead of making us feel as though she cared, she spent the first 13 minutes of our appointment telling us that we were "grandma killers" because we were not yet vaccinated for COVID. She eventually stopped when my husband asked her if she was billing us for this lecture. Our initial appointment ended with recommendations for medication and standard fertility treatment procedures. We began following protocol from a distance, due to COVID. Eventually, I became pregnant. My husband and I were overjoyed! This is what we came here for. We thought that ORM would share our sentiment. We immediately scheduled an ultrasound with them. We got in contact with my regular OB, who was worried about the pregnancy due to low progesterone. We feared the worst, but were looking forward to at least seeing a picture of our baby if anything. We had our appointment for the ultrasound with Dr. Kennard in January 2022. When we entered the office, my husband was immediately kicked out. "No family members allowed!" they said. I tried to explain that this might be the only time my husband and I could see our baby, and I wanted to experience my first ultrasound and pregnancy with my husband by my side. The front desk staff refused. We decided it was fine, COVID was a difficult time for everyone. When I got to the ultrasound room, I was crying a bit. Dr Kennard entered the room. She took one look at me and told me to “suck it up” and that it was not a big deal. She looked at the fetus and said that it doesn’t look like it’s developing correctly. I wasn’t surprised, but still somewhat heartbroken by the news. I asked her for a printout picture. She responded with “Why? Nothing is there anyway, I just said that.” I was stunned. How could anyone say such a thing? I didn’t know what to say, and was still crying, so I just said I wanted one anyway. I got out of the clinic as soon as possible.

Do not under any circumstances let her operate on you! In April 2021 I had what should have been a simple outpatient surgery to remove an ovarian cyst and she completely botched it and then she refused to help me. A year and a half later I’ve had 4 surgeries and 7 hospital stays and IM STILL NOT OK! Not to mention thousands of dollars. Just don’t do it. Learn from my mistake.

My experience with Dr Kennard was very unpleasant. She basically relied on her nurse to relay any information, but her nurse was very unprofessional. From the 1st visit for blood work nothing was ever communicated to me. I was never told test results and Dr. Kennard was basically never interested in answering any questions. She was in and out of the appointment before I could even sit up from the exam table. Plus most of my IUI's were done by someone else. Also the billing department would never explain what I was being charged for, they would get very frustrated if you asked for an explanation or want a print out of the charges. Needless to say I would not recommend Dr. Kennard for you fertility issues.

I have had a pleasant experience with Dr. Kennard thus far. She is very compassionate & through in her assessment. Additionally, she took the time to answer my questions & concerns. I would unequivocally recommend her to anyone.

Dr Kennard has bad bedside manner, worse communication, and is rude and inappropriate. Her team also very poorly communicates. Do not recommend unless you like a doctor who makes rude comments about her other patients and doesn’t listen to your real concerns.

0/10

If I could give her 0 stars I would. The whole visit was talking about the covid vaccine. she told me she would rather me smoke than to be unvaccinated. She asked me "why are you looking at me like that" and i responded that "I am not getting the vaccine until further research is out, because the biggest rumor i had heard was that it could cause infertility, let alone the cases of myocarditis." She thoroughly explained that I was not a doctor, she was.. 2 years later, pfizer releases data showing that it does in fact cause infertililty and miscarriages. I have the full 9 pages of known side effects printed off in case I ever need to return, so that I can slap the stack down in front of her as an explanation as to why I do not trust her judgement as a doctor and for why I will never return and why I have and will continue tell others with infertitlity issues not to see her. Any doctor who doesn't specialize in pediatrics or doesn't administer vaccines on a daily basis, or see patients who may have had adverse effects to vaccines in general, has no business shaming and talking down to those who make choices for the sake of their own lives and futures. Let alone, throwing informed consent out the window by withholding information that may support her reasoning for being so pushy about the vaccine, while being dismissive on the subject at hand (infertility). She also ordered a semen analysis for my husband. I got an alert that the results were in, and it showed low liquefaction time. I had called and left a message and asked to know what that meant for us, next steps etc. The nurses response (in a voice message) was that the liquefaction time was slow. Duh! thats exactly what the results said! I made a return call reiterating the questions I had (in a voice message), and once again the nurse left a message stating the same thing as the previous message. So I made a return call, once again stating my question, and asked that they not leave a message and to make sure they actually talk to me so that I could ask follow up questions. Elizabeth called me directly. upon answering, she said "I want you to know that my nurse DID call you TWICE". She was quite annoyed immediately, and it was very obvious. I agreed that she called, but I didn't feel that my question was answered. She asked what my question was, which I repeated for the 4th time. Her response was "I specialize in female infertility, I'm not a urologist" Which was a critical response that really meant "I dont know what that means for you, and how dare you ask me a question I dont know". It seems to me, that she doesn't know a lot of anything that could benefit my husband and I with creating a family. I'd like to add that the nurse was very nice and as helpful as she could be. I just feel bad that she is in such a wonderful field with so much opportunity for growth in knowledge, and the doctor she got stuck with is stunting that growth for her.