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Dr. Hannan will close the Newark office Dr. David Hannan, a Newark physician for 21 years, announced July 17 that he will move his practice to a Marion site he has owned since 1994. The Newark site will close by November 30, when the lease expires. Dr. Hannan and his partner, Dr. David Blasczak of Clyde, have been unsuccessful in recruiting a new physician into their practice. The County Board of Supervisors, with medical scholarships, and Newark-Wayne Community Hospital, with physician search firm contracts and relocation expense grants, were helpful years ago in bringing family physicians to Wayne County. Drs. Hannan and Blasczak are the only two board certified family physicians remaining on active staff at Newark Hospital. 'We intend to continue serving all of our current patients,' said Dr. Hannan. 'Our Newark patients can transfer their records to either the Marion office or the Clyde office. We regret very much the inconvenience this will be for some of our patients, but the economics of medical practice in 2006 leave us with no alternative.' Many physicians are being forced to relocate, retire, or reduce services. Medical practice expenses, including medical liability insurance premiums, are rising dramatically each year, while payments for physicians services by insurance companies and government programs have been flat. The result has been devastating in the Finger Lakes region. The Center for Health Workforce Studies at SUNY Albany reported in January 2006 that primary care physician manpower in the Finger Lakes declined 11 percent in the past five years. Copyright
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