FARGO (AP) — The Minnesota Board of Medical Practice has taken disciplinary action against a doctor who was a star quarterback at North Dakota State University in the early 1990s.
As part of a July 13 action, the council reprimanded Dr. Arden Beachy and imposed situations on his medical leave for unethical or misplaced conduct, according to council documents.
Beachy, 53, no longer works for Family Healthcare in downtown Fargo, where he was hired in September 2022 as a family physician and medical director, and where he hired when the habit hit.
Family Healthcare, at 301 NP Ave. , is a not-for-profit, federally qualified, medically qualified medical provider that serves people with impairments and is governed by a board of directors.
The complaint against Beachy about irrelevant relationships with a patient in November 2022, just two months after he was hired through Family Healthcare, according to documents from the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice.
The documents do not make clear where the alleged irrelevant relationships occurred.
In May 2022, Beachy patients were encouraged to seek out a new doctor because he was transitioning to part-time status, according to the board’s report.
The patient in question had begun receiving provider number one care when Beachy visited the patient’s home for a non-clinical matter.
“During the visit, Beachy observed on (a) video recording walking naked from the waist to toe in Patient No. 1’s home,” the report states.
In January 2023, the board of directors Beachy had had the opportunity to resign from Family Healthcare following her investigation, according to the report.
It’s unclear how long Beachy stayed afterward.
A member of Family Healthcare’s team declined to comment for the story, as did Steve Skoblik, chairman of its board of directors.
A biography of Beachy in the journal does not list Family Healthcare or Lakewood Health Systems as former workplaces.
As a component of the July 13 action, Beachy’s license was reprimanded and the situations imposed are: to take courses on professional barriers and write an article for review through a committee on what she has learned and how she will put this wisdom into practice in her practice. .
Beachy also ordered a $10,000 civil penalty.
If you do not comply with all conditions, a hearing will be scheduled, at which the board will likely impose further disciplinary measures, including suspension or revocation of the license, the board document states.
Beachy would likely request removal of those leave situations at a later date. The terms of a 2019 board agreement over a 2017 circumstance remain in effect, the board said.
In this case, the board decided that Beachy did not consult an insurance-approved infectious disease specialist when treating a patient for imaginable tick-borne illnesses.
The end result of this case is not a disciplinary measure, the board said, but rather a corrective measure for education.
The 2024 action by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice is the first license reprimand for Beachy.
Two decades prior, in December 2004, Beachy was reprimanded over sexually suggestive email messages exchanged in 2002 and 2003 with a patient he had been treating for depression, along with collarbone and shoulder injuries, at Lakewood Health Systems in Staples, the board said.
In those messages, Beachy allegedly told the patient, “I still can’t, you weren’t wearing underwear, you know I like that,” and “I know we may have done it in the van, but I didn’t. ” “I know how agile you were and I was also a little nervous,” the board document says.
The document also indicated that Beachy had loaned the patient a total of $2,800 over a period of time.
In addition to the 2004 reprimand, Beachy was ordered to have a female companion perform all physical exams involving pelvic exams and was ordered to exercise only on equipment. She also had to complete a career barriers training course and pay the commission’s investigation costs of $4,500.
The order will remain in effect for two years.
In 2007, reacting to a petition from Beachy, the board reinstated his unconditional, unrestricted license after determining that he had complied with all provisions of the 2004 disciplinary actions.
Beachy earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from NDSU in 1994 and earned his doctorate in medicine in 1999 from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota, according to his biography.
He was a member of the Bison’s 1990 NCAA Division II National Football Championship football team and a preseason favorite for the Harlon Hill Trophy before suffering a career-ending knee injury in the season opener. 1993 season.
Beachy was inducted into the Bison Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.