Jonesboro, AR — (Contributed) — June 3, 2025 — 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 group includes doctors who have just completed residences 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 eastern Arkansas’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.
St. Bernards Healthcare includes three hospitals, including the region’s largest hospital, St. Bernards Medical Center. It offers a 457-bed acute care hospital, complete with the region’s most capable Level III Trauma Center and comprehensive Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
St. Bernards Healthcare also includes St. Bernards CrossRidge Community Hospital, a Critical Access Hospital in Wynne, Arkansas, as well as St. Bernards Five Rivers Medical Center in Pocahontas, the first hospital in Arkansas to receive Rural Emergency Hospital designation.