The McCready Outpatient Center offers specialized care for people experiencing breathing disorders.
Dr. Jon R. Beacher is a pulmonology, critical care and sleep medicine specialist. He treats patients with respiratory disorders and coordinates smoking cessation strategies.
He has a particular interest in diagnosing and treating patients with lung cancer.
Dr. Beacher sees patients at McCready Memorial Hospital’s Outpatient Center
in Crisfield
and at our satellite office
in Princess Anne
next to the Food Lion grocery store just off U.S. Rt. 13.
He is a graduate of the University of Chicago School of Medicine.
He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Rush Presbyterian — St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, followed by fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine at
Rush Presbyterian and New York University medical centers.
He performs all interventional aspects of pulmonary medicine:
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Thoracentesis (diagnostic and therapeutic)
Complete pulmonary function testing
Placement of central intravascular devices, including PICC lines
Tracheostomy care
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Dr. Beacher was previously a member of Peninsula Pulmonary Associates in Salisbury.
He brings with him a broad spectrum of knowledge and experience in the healthcare field, which includes research, teaching and program development. He also has a long history of caring for critically ill patients in intensive care units in New York, Chicago and Salisbury.
“Raising the quality of care for clinical medicine has always been a goal of mine,” Dr. Beacher says.
“There is a great need for pulmonary medicine in this part of the Eastern Shore.”
Dr. Beacher grew up in a family of health-care professionals. His grandfather was a general practitioner in Brooklyn “when it was populated by farmhouses.” When Beacher's mother was a graduate student in biology, she did work in nephrology that helped develop the first dialysis machines.
"I always wanted to be a physician," he says.
To be closer to his family in New York and Connecticut, Dr. Beacher and his family moved from Chicago to the Delmarva Peninsula. He spends much of his spare time pursuing his life-long interest in fishing.
Dr. Beacher's goal is building a strong pulmonary program that includes pulmonary function testing, pulmonary rehabilitation and smoking cessation.
“Cigarette smoking,” he notes, “is a tremendous burden here in Somerset County.”
Beacher and his wife, Dr. Lynne Everett, who is McCready's radiologist, are the parents of two school-age sons.