Physicians Joining St. Bernards in 2025 Bring Region New, Expanded Medical Services
A group of 20 physicians joining St. Bernards Healthcare in 2025 will bring northeast Arkansas and southeast Missouri 10 new or expanded medical specialties.
The diverse group includes doctors who have just completed residencies or fellowships as well as those with decades of practice as attending physicians. Nearly 20 percent of these doctors grew up in Arkansas or West Tennessee, while 70 percent completed their medical school, residency or fellowship training in the region.
Specialty highlights include:
- Hand surgery services previously unavailable to the region;
- Neurosurgery, tripling the capacity of the region’s only full-service provider of diseases and conditions affecting the brain, spine and peripheral nerves;
- Neonatology, strengthening the region’s largest and most comprehensive NICU; and
- Radiation oncology, with St. Bernards Medical Center serving as Arkansas’s only hospital with American College of Radiation Oncology accreditation.
Other physician specialties include orthopedics, pulmonary/critical care, ENT, pathology, urgent care, emergency medicine, surgery and hospital medicine services. The 2025 physician class builds upon St. Bernards bringing 18 new doctors to the region in 2024. Over the past five years, the healthcare system has successfully recruited 94 physicians while maintaining high retention rates among those providers.
