Women's Health Associates — An Honest Editorial Review

Among fertility clinics in Idaho, most Treasure Valley patients — Boise, Meridian, Nampa, Caldwell, Eagle, Kuna — begin their reproductive-health journey not at a fertility center but at a general OB/GYN practice. Women's Health Associates is one of the larger independent women's-health groups in the Boise metro, with its long-standing Boise home office and a satellite Meridian location across from St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center. It is not an IVF clinic, and it is not a reproductive-endocrinology practice — but for workup, preconception care, and continuity through pregnancy, it is where many Ada County fertility stories actually start.

This editorial covers the Meridian office specifically. The practice is physician-owned and independent; it operates inside the Trinity Health System referral network, and a Saint Alphonsus E. Gentry Patient Service Center sits inside the Meridian building for on-site labs and imaging. For urgent obstetric concerns or labor, patients at the Meridian office are generally directed to St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center across Eagle Road.

About the Practice

Women's Health Associates is a multi-provider general obstetrics-and-gynecology group serving the Treasure Valley. The Meridian office shares a provider roster with the Boise main office; physicians and certified nurse midwives rotate between sites. Physicians and advanced practice providers listed on the practice's public roster include:

• Kelly McGuire, D.O. — full-spectrum OB/GYN, adolescent gynecology, robotic minimally invasive gynecologic surgery; Rocky Vista University College of Medicine; residency at Cleveland Clinic – Akron General
• Jessica Fu, M.D. — OB/GYN; University of Nevada School of Medicine; residency at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Monika Fealko, M.D. — OB/GYN; University of Nevada School of Medicine; residency at University of Nevada, Reno; practicing at Women's Health Associates since 2011
• Suzanne Rice, M.D. — full-spectrum OB/GYN; University of North Dakota School of Medicine; residency at Akron General Medical Center; with the practice since 2005
• Sylvia Hu, M.D. — OB/GYN
• Celina Sarkes, M.D. — OB/GYN
• Shelbie Walters, D.O. — OB/GYN
• Kelly Siudzinski, M.D. — OB/GYN; opened the Meridian office in 2017
• Eric S. Donahue, M.D. — primary care / family medicine and urgent care (in-practice, non-OB/GYN)

Certified nurse midwives with the practice include Laura Taylor, CNM, Kristi Rhodes, CNM, MSN, Jill Keely, CNM, and Megan Kitterman, CNM. Provider rosters at multi-site practices shift; always verify current staffing and board certification through the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) public lookup before your visit.

Hospital affiliations. The Meridian location sits directly across Eagle Road from St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center, and the practice also works within the Saint Alphonsus / Trinity Health System network (an on-site Saint Alphonsus Patient Service Center handles labs and basic imaging inside the Meridian office). Individual physicians hold delivery and surgical privileges at one or both systems; confirm the specific delivery and surgical hospital with your chosen provider.

Services Offered

Women's Health Associates delivers the standard breadth of a full-service general OB/GYN group:

• Routine well-woman exams, Pap screening, and cervical-cancer surveillance
• Obstetric care — prenatal, delivery, and postpartum — with St. Luke's Meridian and/or Saint Alphonsus hospital affiliation
• Contraception counseling, IUD and implant placement, and permanent-contraception options
• Adolescent gynecology
• Menopause and perimenopause management, including hormone therapy
• Preconception counseling and basic infertility workup
• In-office gynecologic procedures (colposcopy, endometrial biopsy, hysteroscopy)
• Robotic and minimally invasive gynecologic surgery
• Endometriosis, fibroid, pelvic-pain, and uterine-prolapse evaluation
• Certified-nurse-midwife (CNM) prenatal and gynecologic care
• On-site Saint Alphonsus Patient Service Center for labs
• In-practice family medicine and urgent care (Dr. Donahue)

The practice's public materials list "infertility" as a care area but do not detail a specific IUI or IVF program on-site. Patients who need assisted reproductive technology are referred out to an Idaho reproductive endocrinologist.

What This Practice Is — and Isn't

Women's Health Associates Meridian is an appropriate starting point for:

• A preconception visit to review health history, medications, vaccinations, and folate
• Initial infertility workup: day-3 FSH and estradiol, AMH, TSH, prolactin, antral follicle count on pelvic ultrasound, HSG referral for tubal patency, and partner semen-analysis referral
• Cycle tracking, ovulation assessment, and timed-intercourse guidance before 12 months of trying (six months if age 35 or older)
• Oral ovulation-induction medication management (letrozole, clomiphene) in selected patients
• Gynecologic-surgery evaluation for endometriosis, fibroids, or polyps that may be contributing to subfertility
• Ongoing women's-health continuity during and after fertility treatment at an REI
• Obstetric follow-through once an REI pregnancy is established

It is not the right clinic for:

• In vitro fertilization (IVF), egg retrieval, or embryo transfer
• Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) or preimplantation genetic testing (PGT-A/M/SR)
• Third-party reproduction (donor egg, donor embryo, gestational surrogacy)
• Fertility preservation with oocyte or embryo cryopreservation
• Complex male-factor infertility beyond basic semen-analysis referral
• Recurrent pregnancy loss workup requiring REI-level genetics, autoimmune, or clotting-factor evaluation

Idaho patients who need those services typically travel to one of a small number of in-state or nearby out-of-state REI programs. Options to discuss with your Women's Health Associates physician include:

• Idaho Center for Reproductive Medicine (ICRM) — Idaho's only nationally certified reproductive-endocrinology program, with its main Boise clinic at 1000 E Park Blvd and a pregnancy-care satellite at Talus Professional Plaza in Meridian. Three fellowship-trained REIs. See our ICRM patient guide.
• Utah Fertility Center — a larger multi-physician REI practice with four Utah locations (Pleasant Grove, Midvale, Ogden, St. George) and a satellite clinic in Idaho Falls that serves eastern and southern Idaho patients for cycle monitoring, with retrievals and transfers typically performed in Utah.
• CNY Fertility — an out-of-state lower-cost IVF program used by some Idahoans who travel for treatment; not Idaho-based.

When asking for a referral, patients should verify whether the destination clinic reports outcomes to SART and CDC ART, and whether the clinic's embryology lab is on-site or outsourced. Our how to read IVF success rates guide walks through the data fields that matter most. Professional-society guidance from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine and peer-reviewed reviews on PubMed can further contextualize what a rigorous REI workup should include.

Idaho Insurance Context

Idaho is not a fertility-mandate state. There is no statute requiring commercial insurers to cover infertility diagnosis or treatment, and Idaho Medicaid does not cover IVF. In practice:

• Diagnostic workup (bloodwork, pelvic ultrasound, HSG) is frequently covered under standard gynecology benefits because these tests have non-fertility indications.
• Oral ovulation-induction medications (letrozole, clomiphene) are commonly covered under pharmacy benefits.
• IUI coverage varies widely by plan and is often excluded as "fertility treatment."
• IVF is almost always self-pay unless the patient happens to work for a self-funded employer that voluntarily includes a fertility carve-out benefit (Progyny, Carrot, Maven, WINFertility).

Before scheduling any assisted-reproduction cycle, ask Women's Health Associates' billing team which diagnostic codes will run through your gynecology benefit versus a fertility exclusion, and review our fertility insurance mandates by state guide for a broader view of U.S. coverage.

Patient Experience

Women's Health Associates' Meridian listing carries a 4.8-star Google rating across 576 reviews — a large and consistent sample for a satellite women's-health office. Review volume at this scale makes statistical noise irrelevant and reflects operational consistency across a multi-physician roster and a steady cadence of annual exams, prenatal visits, deliveries, and gynecologic procedures.

Recurring themes in public feedback for the practice center on physicians and midwives who take time during visits, the convenience of the Eagle Road corridor location (immediately off I-84 and directly across from St. Luke's Meridian), and the integrated lab/imaging access via the on-site Saint Alphonsus Patient Service Center. As with any multi-provider practice, recurring critiques tend to involve phone hold times and scheduling friction — the standard tradeoffs of scale.

Rating volume is not a substitute for fit. For fertility specifically, a Google rating tells you nothing about IVF outcomes — because this practice does not perform IVF. Use SART and CDC ART data to compare REI programs; use Google reviews to gauge day-to-day experience at your OB/GYN.

Considering At-Home Insemination?

For patients without a known diagnosis — particularly same-sex couples and single parents by choice who already have donor sperm arranged — at-home intracervical insemination (ICI) is often a reasonable first step while an OB/GYN workup is underway.

At-home insemination kits from MakeAMom are a one-time purchase, reusable until conception, and ship in plain, discreet packaging. They pair well with basic preconception health work through a general OB/GYN like Women's Health Associates. If you have been trying 12 months (six if over 35), have a known diagnosis, or your physician has recommended IUI or IVF, in-clinic treatment with an REI is the right next step.

When to Add a Clinical REI

Consider asking your Women's Health Associates physician for a reproductive-endocrinology referral if any of the following apply:

• Trying for 12 months without conception (six months if age 35 or older)
• Age 40 or older at the start of trying
• Known diminished ovarian reserve (low AMH or elevated day-3 FSH)
• Tubal disease, hydrosalpinx, or prior tubal surgery
• Moderate-to-severe endometriosis
• Severe male-factor infertility on semen analysis
• Two or more pregnancy losses (recurrent pregnancy loss)
• Irregular or absent cycles (PCOS, hypothalamic amenorrhea, primary ovarian insufficiency)
• A desire for fertility preservation before cancer treatment or gender-affirming care
• Need for donor egg, donor embryo, or gestational-carrier arrangements

Early referral matters more for patients in their late 30s and 40s because time is part of the treatment. Moving from a general OB/GYN workup into an REI consult does not have to wait for an exhaustive in-office trial if the clinical picture already points toward IVF.

Location and Contact

Address: 3090 E Gentry Way, Suite 210, Meridian, ID 83642 (across Eagle Road from St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center) Phone: (208) 338-8900 Website: womenshealthboise.com Hours: Monday–Thursday 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.; Friday 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. (confirm at booking)

The practice's Boise main office serves the same provider roster; physicians and CNMs rotate between the two sites.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Women's Health Associates perform IVF or IUI? Women's Health Associates is a general OB/GYN practice. Physicians can perform fertility workups and prescribe oral ovulation-induction medications, but the practice's public materials do not describe an on-site IUI program or any IVF, ICSI, egg retrieval, embryo transfer, PGT, donor-gamete, or fertility-preservation services. Patients who need IUI or IVF are referred to an Idaho REI — most commonly the Idaho Center for Reproductive Medicine in Boise/Meridian, or Utah Fertility Center's Idaho Falls satellite for patients in eastern Idaho.

Where do Women's Health Associates physicians deliver babies? The Meridian office is affiliated with both the Saint Alphonsus / Trinity Health System network and St. Luke's Meridian Medical Center, which sits directly across Eagle Road. Individual physicians may hold privileges at one or both systems; confirm the specific delivery hospital with your chosen provider when you establish prenatal care.

Is fertility treatment covered by Idaho insurance? Idaho has no state fertility-coverage mandate. Coverage depends entirely on your specific employer or individual plan. Diagnostic workup (labs, HSG, semen analysis, ultrasound) is often covered under standard gynecology benefits even when IUI and IVF are not. Verify with your insurer before the workup and before any REI consult.

How do I get a reproductive-endocrinology referral from Women's Health Associates? Any Women's Health Associates OB/GYN or CNM can provide a referral to an Idaho REI based on clinical indication. The closest in-state option is the Idaho Center for Reproductive Medicine, with its main Boise clinic at 1000 E Park Blvd and a Meridian satellite at Talus Professional Plaza. Patients in eastern or southern Idaho sometimes travel to Utah Fertility Center (Idaho Falls satellite with retrievals and transfers in Utah). Ask specifically about SART-member status, age-band success rates, and whether the embryology lab is on-site.

Editorial note: Independently written by the Fertlo editorial team; not sponsored. Sources include the practice's public provider pages at womenshealthboise.com, the Saint Alphonsus / Trinity Health System location page, the federal CMS National Provider Identifier registry, and the practice's Google Business Profile. This clinic is a general OB/GYN practice; fertility-specific statements in this editorial are limited to services publicly listed by the practice and verified in federal registries. See our editorial policy.