Center for Egg Options Illinois, LLC is a for-profit matching agency based in Northbrook, Illinois, working in both egg donation and gestational surrogacy. Its role is matching rather than full-service case management: it recruits and screens egg donors and gestational carriers and pairs them with intended parents, who are single, married, or in same-sex relationships. The agency has also worked with intended parents based outside the United States.
The agency was founded by Nancy Block, RN, who is described in her professional biographies as having spent roughly 17 years as an OB/GYN and fertility staff nurse and nurse educator at Northwestern Memorial Hospital before starting the organization. Its own description of its team notes nurses and counselors on staff, along with former egg donors and gestational surrogates, and staffing has been estimated at around 15 people.
Ownership has changed since the agency's early years. A press release announced that Center for Egg Options joined forces with Fertility SOURCE Companies, the parent of The Donor SOURCE and The Surrogacy SOURCE. Biographies published by the founder say she sold the company to a national agency after about 15 years, remained for a period in business development, and later went on to start a separate surrogacy agency in 2017. The Center for Egg Options name continues to appear on business listings for the Northbrook office.
The agency holds an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau; it is not BBB accredited. Its BBB file, rating details, and any eligibility and fee information on record appear in the sections below.
Recent ownership change: The agency was acquired by / merged into Fertility SOURCE Companies (The Donor SOURCE and The Surrogacy SOURCE) per a PRWeb release titled 'Fertility SOURCE Companies and The Center for Egg Options Join Forces'; founder Nancy Block's own bios (Private Label Surrogacy site and her Men Having Babies professional profile) say she sold the company to a national agency after about 15 years and stayed on for business development, then left to found Private Label Surrogacy in 2017. The change is therefore roughly a decade old, not recent in the last-few-years sense; no evidence found of the Center for Egg Options brand operating independently today, and no live official website was located.
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