{"id":145441,"date":"2025-09-10T01:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145441\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T01:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T01:42:09","slug":"austin-doctor-suspended-accused-of-sexual-relationships-with-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145441\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin doctor suspended, accused of sexual relationships with patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Texas Medical Board has suspended a family medicine doctor in Austin after finding the physician used medical appointments for sexual encounters with patients. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The medical board on Sept. 3 temporarily suspended Dr. Jared Kealy\u2019s medical license, citing a threat to public welfare. The suspension was effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Through his attorney, Kealy denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Kealy worked at an Austin location of Lone Star Circle of Care, which is a federally qualified health center. Such centers provide medical care to underserved communities, often focusing on uninsured and low-income patients.<\/p>\n<p>Business Briefing<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Become a business insider with the latest news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In the suspension announcement, the Texas Medical Board wrote that Kealy had initiated sexual relationships with two patients. The family medicine doctor, according to the announcement, also \u201cused scheduled medical encounters to engage in, and continue, sexual acts with the patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Kealy\u2019s attorney, Louis Leichter of the Austin-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leichterlaw.com\/attorneys\/louis-leichter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.leichterlaw.com\/attorneys\/louis-leichter\/\">Leichter Law Firm<\/a>, rejected the allegations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cHe denies sexual involvement with the two patients,\u201d Leichter said of his client.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The attorney said Kealy was not given proper due process at his hearing before the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cIt was almost as if they had made up their mind before we walked into the hearing,\u201d Leichter said, \u201cand without being able to hear the relevant testimony, nothing could persuade them from changing their mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Lone Star Circle of Care said in a statement, sent by spokesperson Ashley Wild, that the organization could not comment on specific patient cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cLone Star Circle of Care prioritizes the safety and well-being of its patients and takes any allegations of professional misconduct very seriously,\u201d the statement said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">\u201cWe can confirm that Dr. Jared Kealy has not provided medical services at Lone Star Circle of Care for some time, and is no longer an employee of the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In response to questions about the time frame and nature of Kealy\u2019s separation from the organization, Wild referred back to the original statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Kealy is no longer listed on <a href=\"https:\/\/lonestarcares.org\/providers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/lonestarcares.org\/providers\/\">Lone Star Circle of Care\u2019s website<\/a>. An archived version of the website includes Kealy on the provider list <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250715005509\/https:\/\/lonestarcares.org\/providers\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250715005509\/https:\/\/lonestarcares.org\/providers\/\">as recently as July<\/a>. The location that Kealy worked at is also no longer listed on the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Medical Board has suspended a family medicine doctor in Austin after finding the physician used medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6778,97,252,5599,49886,1022],"class_list":["post-145441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-austin","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-public-health","tag-science-and-medicine","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}