Mary Acosta, WHNP

Mary Acosta, WHNP-BC, is a women’s health nurse practitioner who focuses on health promotion and maintenance. Acosta provides ambulatory women’s health services that embrace most of a woman’s health needs throughout her life span, including but not limited to adolescent health, menopause management, annual well-woman exams and contraception counseling.

Acosta graduated from Northwestern State University of Louisiana College of Nursing in Shreveport with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2006. She was a labor and delivery nurse for eight years before she obtained a master’s degree and training as a women’s health nurse practitioner (WHNP) from Northwestern in 2014. Acosta is board certified through the National Certification Corporation. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society and Louisiana Association of Nurse Practitioners.