Internal Medicine Associates of Galveston

12/21/2022

Happy Heavenly Birthday ❤️ Beautiful Lady!
Enjoy your day dancing and singing in Heaven.
You are greatly missed.
We have so many wonderful memories and plenty of pictures to remember you. -----Anise posted this and I wanted to share it, we love and miss you, your loving staff

10/10/2022

10/10/2022
To Our Patients,
Thank you for allowing our practice to care for you over the past 13 years. It has been our privilege and honor to serve the Galveston Community and your family. Following the untimely and tragic death our beloved Nancy L. Hughes, M.D., on March 18, 2022, we continued to see our patients with the assistance of Joie Brownlee, our nurse practitioner, and Dr James King, a physician from UTMB Health. It is now time to close the practice and transition our patients to providers at UTMB Health.
Whether you live on Galveston Island or on the mainland, UTMB Health offers several locations for primary care throughout Galveston County and the Clear Lake area. To facilitate your transition of care to UTMB Health, we have dedicated phone lines for you to call if you would like a primary care provider off the island (409-986-9686) or on the island (409-747-1883).
Please be advised that our office will no longer see patients after Friday, October 21, 2022, so we encourage you to choose a new provider soon. Phones will continue to be answered and medical records will be available at our office until Friday, November 4, 2022. After this time, the practice will be closed.
We have arranged for UTMB Health to house medical records for all of our patients after the practice closes. If you would like to seek care outside of UTMB Health, our office can provide your medical records until November 4th. After that date, you may contact the UTMB Health Information Management Department at 409-772-1965 to transfer your records to another provider. The information Management Department will email or fax the proper authorization form to you, or you may pick up the form at their office.
Thank you for allowing our practice to care for you over the years.
Helping you and your loved ones maintain and improve your health was one on Nancy’s greatest joys in life, and our practice will always be grateful to have known you. If you need to reach someone in the office, please call 409-771-2040 on or before November 4, 2022.
Best wishes and warm regards,

Michael B. Hughes

06/20/2022

Internal Medicine Associates of Galveston just received notice that Dr. James King and Joie Brownlee, NP have been fully credentialed with Medicare.

We are very glad that this step of the process is now complete, and we expect for credentialing to go through with the private insurance companies shortly as well.

Please, call the clinic with any questions. Thank you for your patience and continued support.

04/29/2022

Internal Medicine Associates of Galveston will continue to remain open. Our goal is to continue providing the level of patient care you have come to expect from this clinic. To that end, we are taking steps to get Dr. James King and Joie Brownlee, NP credentialed with private insurance companies and Medicare. We expect to complete the credentialing process within 30 to 60 days.

Commercial or private insurance patients:
You may receive a letter stating that Dr. Hughes is no longer in network and directing you to choose a new physician. We ask you to consider remaining with us as we work toward obtaining the appropriate credentials. At this time, we are not able to make referrals for HMO patients, because we are not currently in network. Importantly, we are currently accepting cash payments for patients with private insurance.

Medicare patients:
Because we expect to be able to file claims for patients already seen, we are not requiring cash payments at this time.

We will continue to keep all patients informed - please, call with any questions. Thank you for your continued support and patience.

03/31/2022

The staff of Dr Hughes would like to thank our patients for all the prayers, cards, hugs, kind words extended to us during this difficult time. We also extend thanks for food, cakes and goodies brought into our office. We appreciate you all and could not get through this without you all.

03/31/2022

Sorry for the delay of this message-----Update: The clinic is open. We are taking calls for refills, appointments and any other concerns. Our Nurse Practitioner is available as well as a physician from UTMB, Dr James King, at this time, to take care of Dr Hughes' patients. Please continue to pray for Dr Hughes' family.

03/21/2022

The office will be open to see patients starting tomorrow, March 22nd with the assistance from medical staff from UTMB. We will be there to assist patients with refills and their medical needs. We will keep our patients updated to future plans. Office will take calls today if refills are needed.

Dr. Hughes has a comprehensive internal medicine practice, well-equipped to be your primary health c

03/20/2022

Services for our beloved Dr. Hughes:
Visitation will be held on Friday, March 25th from 5-7 p.m. at Carnes Funeral Home.
The funeral service will be Saturday, March 26th at 11 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church.

03/19/2022

It is with a heavy heart that I write this post.
We have all lost the most wonderful, caring doctor, friend and boss. Please keep her loving family in your prayers. May God grant them strength and comfort during this most difficult time.
-Michelle

10/19/2021

Reminder that it is Flu season. We have the flu vaccines here. Quadrivalent and high dose. Call for your appointment. Stay safe

09/01/2021

We now have the flu vaccine available. Contact the office to arrange an appointment