BMA will be CLOSED on Monday Jan 15 in honor of MLK day.

BMA will RE-OPEN at 11:00am on Friday, January 5. Please walk and drive with care.

BMA will be CLOSED on Thursday January 4 because of the winter storm.

Wishing you all a happy and healthy New Year.

The doctors and staff of BMA wish you all a Merry Christmas. BMA will reopen on Tuesday.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT OUR ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD SYSTEM: Belmont Medical Associates will be converting its electronic health record from our current eClinical system to the Mt Auburn Hospital's new EPIC system. This involves an intensive period of training during the conversion period. During this time a significant decrease in the number of patients who can be seen on a daily basis will occur. We go "live" on August 1 and it is our sincere hope that we will be back to a "normal" schedule by the beginning of September. Before your first appointment on or after August 1, all patients will have to be registered once in the new system. This will take about 20 minutes, so please be prepared to come early for your appointment

Wishing you all a contemplative Memorial Day.

In honor, or in memory of all our mothers.

NEW RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT PROSTATE CANCER SCREENING​: A high-profile federal panel has backed away from its 2012 recommendation against prostate-cancer screening for men ages 55 to 69, concluding in a new opinion that the risks and benefits of screening are “closely balanced’’ for those men and that they should seek a doctor’s advice. In men age 70 and older, the group continues to conclude that any benefits of screening “do not outweigh the harms, and these men should not be screened.” The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, in a draft recommendation weighing the usefulness of the blood test called PSA, slightly upgraded its views on the test for men 55 to 69. Previously, in the 2012 opinion, the task force had also recommended against the test for the 55-to-69 age group, saying the possibility it lowered deaths from prostate cancer was “very small.” Now, the panel, made up of private doctors advising the government, said additional medical evidence from some clinical studies increased its certainty about the PSA test reducing the risk of dying of prostate cancer and of metastatic disease. Even so, it said, the balance between pluses and minuses is very close, and it advised men from 55 to 69 that they should consult their doctors in deciding whether to get the PSA, which stands for prostate-specific antigen.

BMA will re-open at the normal time on Wednesday, March 15. Drive and walk with care!

BMA is CLOSED on Tuesday March 14 because of the snow storm.