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Join the Celebration! 
NEA Baptist Clinic 
35th Anniversary Gala
 
Friday • June 1, 2012 • 6:30 pm
Centennial Hall
Carl R. Reng Student Union
Arkansas State University
 
Dinner at 7:00 pm
Dancing to the sound of the 1-900 Band

$75 per person, $150 per couple
 
Information: 870.336.1421
Black Tie Optional • Live and Silent Auction

All proceeds benefit NEA Baptist Charitable Foundation.


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]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.neabaptistclinic.com/aboutus/35thanniversary NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES http://www.neabaptistclinic.com/aboutus/noticeofprivacypractices NEA BAPTIST CLINIC
NOTICE OF PRIVACY PRACTICES
                                                                        
Effective Date: February 1, 2012

THIS NOTICE DESCRIBES HOW MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU MAY BE USED AND DISCLOSED AND HOW YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. 
PLEASE REVIEW IT CAREFULLY.

If you have any questions about this notice, please contact 1-877-BMH-TIPS during regular business hours.  If necessary, your question may be directed to the Privacy Officer, or their designee, at the specific physician office to which your question refers.
WHO WILL FOLLOW THIS NOTICE.
This notice describes the privacy practices of:
  • All physician offices, clinics, and diagnostic centers of Northeast Arkansas Clinic Charitable Foundation, Inc. doing business as NEA BAPTIST CLINIC
  • These entities, sites and locations may share medical information with each other for treatment, payment or healthcare operations purposes described in this notice. 
OUR PLEDGE REGARDING MEDICAL INFORMATION:
We understand that medical information about you and your health is personal.  We are committed to protecting medical information about you.  We create a record of the care and services you receive at our office to provide you with quality care and to comply with certain legal requirements.  
 
This notice will tell you about the ways in which we may use and disclose information about you.  
 
We are required by law to:
  • keep private medical information that identifies you;  
  • give you this notice of our legal duties and privacy practices with respect to medical information about you; and 
  • follow the terms of the Notice of Privacy Rights currently in effect.      
HOW WE MAY USE AND DISCLOSE MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU.

The following categories describe different ways that we use and disclose medical information.  For better understanding, we have provided some examples in each category.  Not every use or disclosure in a category will be listed.  However, all of the ways we are permitted to use and disclose information will fall within one of the categories. 
  • For Treatment.  We may use information about you to provide you with medical treatment or services.  We may disclose medical information about you to the various members of our staff to facilitate your care.  For example, the nurse or office staff member may contact a hospital to arrange an appointment for a diagnostic test that cannot be performed in our office.  The nurse or office staff member may call in a prescription to a pharmacy for you.  This office may participate in a health information exchange that allows for the sharing of information between hospitals and doctors.
  • For Payment.  We may use and disclose information about you so that the services you receive at our office may be billed to and payment may be collected from you, an insurance company or a third party.  We may also tell your health plan about a treatment you are going to receive to obtain prior approval or to determine whether your plan will cover the treatment.  
  • For Health Care Operations.  We may use and disclose information about you for our office operations.  For example, we may use medical information to review our treatment and services and to evaluate the performance of our staff in caring for you.  
  • Photographs.  We may photograph patients for security and identification purposes.
  • Patient Satisfaction Surveys.  We may use a limited amount of information about you to conduct patient satisfaction surveys by telephone and written communications, including email.
  • Health Awareness Materials.  We may use your demographic information to send general health information to you.  If you would like us to send information about a particular health topic to you, please let us know.
  • Personal Representatives.  If you have an advance directive, such as a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, or if a court has appointed a guardian for you, we will share information regarding your treatment with your personal representative unless we believe that the sharing of information would jeopardize your health or safety.
  • Appointment Reminders.  We may use and disclose medical information to contact you as a reminder that you have an appointment scheduled.
  • Treatment Alternatives.  We may use and disclose medical information to tell you about or recommend possible treatment options or alternatives that may be of interest to you.  This includes reviewing your medical information to see if you meet the criteria to be eligible to participate in clinical trials.
  • Individuals Involved in Your Care or Payment for Your Care.  We may release medical information about you to a friend or family member who is involved with your medical care or payment for services, unless you inform us that you object to such disclosure. (However, you may not use such an objection to avoid payment for services by a responsible party.)   
  • As Required By Law.  We will disclose medical information about you when required to do so by federal, state or local law.
  • To Avert a Serious Threat to Health or Safety.  We may use and disclose medical information about you when necessary to prevent a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of the public or another person.  Any disclosure, however, would only be to someone able to help prevent the threat.  
SPECIAL SITUATIONS
  • Access by Parents.  Some state laws concerning minors permit or require disclosure of protected health information to parents, guardians, and persons acting in a similar legal status.  We will act consistently with the law of the state where the treatment is provided and will make disclosures following such laws.
  • Military and Veterans.  If you are a member of the armed forces, we may release information about you as required by military command authorities.  
  • Workers' Compensation.  We may release medical information about you for workers' compensation or similar programs that provide benefits for work-related injuries or illness.
  • Medical Surveillance of the Workplace.  If you are an employee who is being evaluated at the request of your employer for medical surveillance of the workplace or in relation to a work-related illness or injury, we may share information obtained from such evaluation with your employer.
  • Public Health Risks.  We may disclose medical information about you for public health activities aimed at preventing or controlling the spread of disease.  
  • Health Oversight Activities.  We may disclose information to a health oversight agency for activities authorized by law.  These oversight activities include, for example, audits, investigations, inspections, and licensure.  We may disclose medical information to lawyers or consultants who are providing services to our office regarding a legal or regulatory matter.
  • Lawsuits and Disputes.  If you are involved in a lawsuit or a dispute, we may disclose information about you in response to a court or administrative order.  We may also disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process by someone else involved in the dispute, but only if we receive written assurances that the party seeking your information has made efforts to tell you about the request or to obtain an order protecting the information requested.   We may use your medical information to defend a legal action against our office.  
  • Law Enforcement.  We may release medical information if asked to do so by a law enforcement official whose request is for a purpose authorized by the law. 
  • Coroners, Medical Examiners and Funeral Directors.  We may release medical information to a coroner or medical examiner to assist in determining a cause of death.
  • National Security, Intelligence Activities, and Protective Services.  We may release medical information about you to authorized federal officials for intelligence, counterintelligence, national security activities authorized by law, protection of the President or foreign heads of state, or other similar activities authorized by law.  
  • Inmates.  If you are an inmate of a correctional institution or under the custody of a law enforcement official, we may release medical information about you to the correctional institution or law enforcement official.  This release would be necessary (1) for the institution to provide you with health care; (2) to protect your health and safety or the health and safety of others; or (3) for the safety and security of the correctional institution.      
YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING MEDICAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU.

You have the following rights regarding medical information we maintain about you:
  • Right to Inspect and Copy.  You have the right to inspect and obtain a copy of information used to make decisions about your care.  Generally, this includes medical and billing records. You must submit your request in writing to the Office Manager.  If you request a copy of the information, we may charge a fee for the costs of copying, mailing or other supplies associated with your request.  
We may deny your request to inspect and copy in certain, very limited circumstances, such as if the physician believes that you might harm yourself or someone else if you had access to the record.  However, you can request a review of the decision to deny access.   
  • Right to Amend.  If you feel that the information in your record is incorrect or incomplete, you may ask us to amend the information for as long as the information is maintained.  
Your request must be made in writing and submitted to the Office Manager.  In addition, you must provide a reason that supports your request. 

We may deny your request for an amendment if it is not in writing or does not include a reason to support the request.  In addition, we may deny your request if you ask us to amend information that:
    • Was not created by us, unless the person or entity that created the information is no longer available to make the amendment; 
    • Is not part of the medical information kept by or for our office; 
    • Is not part of the information which you would be permitted to inspect and copy; or 
    • Is accurate and complete. 

  • Right to an Accounting of Disclosures.  You have the right to request an "accounting of disclosures."  This is a list of the disclosures we made of information about you for reasons other than treatment, payment or health care operations.  For example, an accounting of disclosures would include disclosures that we are required by law to make, such as reporting communicable diseases to the county health department. 
[if !supportLists]-->[if !supportLists]-->[if !supportLists]-->[if !supportLists]-->[if !supportLists]-->To request this accounting of disclosures, you must submit your request in writing to the Office Manager.  Your request must state a time period, which may not be longer than six years and may not include dates before April 14, 2003.  The first list you request within a 12 month period will be free.  For additional lists, we may charge you for the costs of providing the list.  We will notify you of the cost involved and you may choose to withdraw or modify your request at that time before any costs are incurred. 
  • Right to Request Restrictions.  You have the right to request a restriction or limitation on the medical information we use or disclose about you for treatment, payment or health care operations.  
We are not required to agree to your request.  If we do agree, we will comply with your request unless the information is needed to provide you emergency treatment or if disclosure is required by law. 

To request restrictions, you must make your request in writing to the Office Manager.  In your request, you must tell us (1) what information you want to limit; (2) whether you want to limit our use, disclosure or both; and (3) to whom you want the limits to apply. 
  • Right to Request Confidential Communications.  You have the right to request that we communicate with you in a certain way or at a certain location.  For example, you can ask that we only contact you at work. However, you must provide us with an address to which we can send all written correspondence, including your bill. 
When you establish a relationship with this office, you will be requested to provide one mailing address and one phone number which are acceptable to you for receiving communications from us.

You may request a change to your confidential communications address and phone number at any time by submitting a written request to the Office Manager.  We will not ask you the reason for your request.  We will accommodate reasonable requests.   Your request must specify how or where you wish to be contacted. 
  • Right to a Paper Copy of This Notice.  You have the right to a paper copy of this notice.  You may ask us to give you a copy of this notice at any time.  You may obtain a copy of this notice at our website, www.baptistonline.org.  Paper copies of this notice are available upon request.  
CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE.
  • We reserve the right to change this notice.  We reserve the right to make the revised or changed notice effective for information we already have about you as well as any information we receive in the future.  We will post a copy of the current notice showing the effective date.  
COMPLAINTS.
If you believe your privacy rights have been violated, you may file a complaint with this office or with the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.  To file a privacy complaint with this office, contact 1-877-BMH-TIPS, or submit your complaint in writing to the attention of the Compliance Officer at P.O. Box 1960, Jonesboro, Arkansas 72403 or call 870-934-5136.  
 
You will not be penalized for filing a complaint.
 
OTHER USES OF MEDICAL INFORMATION. 
 
Other uses and disclosures of information not covered by this notice or the laws that apply to us will be made only with your written authorization.  If you provide us authorization to use or disclose medical information about you, you may revoke that authorization, in writing, at any time.  If you revoke your authorization, we will no longer use or disclose information about you for the reasons covered by your written authorization.   You understand that we are unable to take back any disclosures we have already made with your authorization, and that we are required to retain our records of the care that we provided to you. EndFragment-->EndFragment-->
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Growing to Provide More Services and Doctors
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Bottom Row L- R:Top Row L - R:
Owen K. Criner, MD
Pulmonology
(870) 934-4150

Stacy Wilbanks, MD
Wound Care 
(870) 336-3211

Charles Cesare, Jr., MD  
Obstetrics & Gynecology
(870) 972-8788

Aaron Wallace, MD
Orthopedic Surgery 
(870) 932-6637

Adam Sills, MD
Dermatology
(870) 935-3530

Kristin J. Addison-Brown, PhD
Neuropsychology 
(870) 932-8122 Ext 234

Thomas Nix, MD
Ophthalmology
(870) 932-0485
Tommy Taylor, MD
Internal Medicine, Cherokee Village, AR
(870) 563-5888 

Adam Woodruff, MD
Nephrology
(870) 935-4150
Ryan Brenza, DO
Family Medicine, Trumann, AR 
(870) 483-6131   

Matthew Haustein, MD
Cardiology
(870) 935-4150




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With NEA Baptist Clinic's Electronic Medical Records, your comprehensive medical history follows you every step of the way - from your family doctor to your oncologist, surgeon, cardiologist, radiologist and physical therapist.

We're the one place you can go to find specialists that stay right with you, from diagnosis through treatment to rehabilitation and recovery.
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November 2007, Baptist partnered with NEA Clinic, the largest physician-owned, multispecialty medical group practice in Arkansas, to meet the health care needs of the northeast Arkansas community through NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital. The 100-bed hospital in Jonesboro, Ark., offers extensive inpatient and outpatient services - emergency department, surgical services, neurology, respiratory care, cancer care, pulmonary rehabilitation and more. 

NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital also features advanced heart care through the Heart Center of NEA and labor & delivery through the hospital's Women's Center. 


Click here to see live footage of the construction site.

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NEA Baptist Center for Cancer Care 

4808 East Johnson Avenue, Jonesboro, Arkansas
 
NEA Baptist's new comprehensive Center for Cancer Care will be the first of its kind in our region -- bringing together the area's most respected oncology physicians in one extraordinary new facility housing research, diagnostics, treatment and support side-by-side with physicians' offices.  The 34,000 square foot facility located on the new NEA Baptist medical campus will allow physicians access to advanced cancer-fighting tools while simultaneously offering greater access and convenience to their patients. 


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]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.neabaptistclinic.com/aboutus/centerforcancercare Get a Directory http://www.neabaptistclinic.com/aboutus/getadirectory Find a Doctor utility is available online. However, if you prefer a printed copy, provide your contact information and we'll send one through U.S. Mail.

 
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Employment Opportunities for Physicians

The NEA Baptist Clinic is seeking quality physicians to join this dynamic 90+ provider multispecialty group located in Jonesboro, Arkansas; a community of 65,000 serving an effective trade area of 600,000.

NEA Baptist Clinic currently has employment opportunities for board certified, university trained providers. 

Provider Positions (Physicians)
  • ENT 
  • Family Practice - Osceola 
  • Family Practice - Paragould 
  • Hospitalist
  • Gastroenterology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Neurosurgery 
  • Pediatrics 

For Physician Positions ONLY, please contact:

Clare Dunham 
Physician Recruitment
1835 Grant, Jonesboro, AR 72401
clare.dunham@neabaptistclinic.com 
Direct (870) 934-5113 
FAX: (870) 932-3608
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NEA Baptist Clinic's former public website was compromised by an electronic attack on July 12, 2011.  Individuals affected by the incident are those people who previously registered with the website as part of using one of the website's special functions.  NEA Baptist Clinic immediately took down the website and then engaged a private, information security firm to assist in analyzing the details of the attack.  Based on the analysis performed, the information compromised includes email addresses or usernames along with passwords for the NEA Baptist Clinic website.  In some cases, additional information such as names, addresses, and dates of birth, also may have been compromised.  No Social Security numbers were involved.  No medical records were involved. 
 
Baptist is encouraging all persons who previously registered with the website to change their passwords if they used the same password for any other account.   Although we believe that the risk of personal information being used improperly is relatively low, we are aware that the hacker was able to crack some of the more basic passwords used on the website.  If you regularly use the same password for all accounts you create, you need to change your passwords at this time. Of particuar concern are the passwords for any financial accounts or other accounts that are linked to a bank account or credit card number, for example, a Paypal, eBay, or Amazon.com account.  
 
It is important that you always use a strong password.  Using a strong password will prevent your password from being easily cracked or deciphered.  The following are tips for creating a strong password: 
 
  • A strong password is at least eight characters long 
  • A strong password is not a real word or name (whether in English or a foreign language) 
  • A strong password contains both upper and lower case letters 
  • A strong password contains letters and numbers 
  • A strong password contains special characters ( !, @, #, $, %, etc) if possible 
  • A strong password is not a date 
Here are some samples of weak passwords: toast, Barcelona, Fluffy, 9/16/76. 
 
Here are better versions of those same passwords: tO@sT^^7, B2rc&L(n!), F!77ff*y, Nn6xT#Nsvt6. 
 
It is also better if you do not use the same password for all of your accounts. 
 
We believe that changing and strengthening your passwords is the best step you can take to protect yourself in this situation.  We believe the risk to your personal information is low; however, creating strong passwords is something we all need to do.  We have contacted law enforcement about this matter. 
 
If you have any additional questions or concerns, please contact the toll-free Baptist Privacy and Security Helpline at 1-866-941-4785. 
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]]> Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.neabaptistclinic.com/aboutus/promotionalmedia Recent News http://www.neabaptistclinic.com/aboutus/recentnews /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} NEA Baptist Clinic Welcomes Jimmy Ballard, APN in Osceola

Jimmy Ballard, APN has joined NEA Baptist Clinic and will begin seeing patients at the Osceola clinic location on may 14th, 2012. Ballard bring with him... For the full story, click here.



NEA Baptist Hosts Groundbreaking
for NEA Baptist Center for Cancer Care

 

NEA Baptist Health System hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the NEA Baptist Center for Cancer Care on Thursday, Jan.26, 2012 at 4808 East Johnson in Jonesboro, Ark.  The NEA Baptist Center for Cancer Care will be constructed on the northwest corner of NEA Baptist's new, 80 acre medical campus.  The campus, currently under construction, also will include... For the full story, click here.
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