Kim Bendis is a graduate of Vanderbilt University where she obtained her masters as a family nurse practitioner, graduated with honors and was a distinguished member of the National Health Service Corps. She started her career in community health clinics providing primary care, managing the triage department, developing clinic formularies and caring for women and children at battered women’s shelters in Chicago. As a nurse practitioner she has spent the last 20+ years in a combination of primary care, pediatrics and urgent care settings. She has served on multiple leadership teams helping to onboard new providers and coordinate telehealth care during COVID 19. Throughout her career she has made teaching a priority and has regularly precepted nurse practitioner and PA students while also serving as an adjunct-professor at Aurora University’s School of Nursing teaching Community Health clinicals.
Kim’s passion has always been primary care because of the ability to develop relationships with children and their families while watching them grow. Her other interests surround promoting mental health awareness and supporting communities to become self-sustainable. She has served on the board of Hope for the Day, a suicide prevention organization and has been a spokesperson for World Vision. Sixteen years ago, when her own health was impacted by multiple auto-immune conditions, she turned to a more integrative approach to her own care, which transferred into how she approached caring for her own patients. Viewing each person from a mind, body, spirit perspective is the framework she uses when treating her patients and helping them achieve their health and wellness goals.
She enjoys empowering parents to be their child’s advocate and providing children and their parents with resources for a bright and healthy future. She is excited to create lasting relationships with all the Whole Child families.
Kim is currently a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and American Holistic Nurses Association. She is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Outside of work Kim cherishes the time with her husband, 3 young adult children and their 9 yo cockapoo, Lola. She enjoys reading, traveling and taking in the serenity of the outdoors.
