- Dr. Joseph P Thornton, MD
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Dr. Joseph P Thornton, MD
Colon Surgery & Rectal Surgery - Nevada, Las Vegas
Overview
Dr. Joseph P Thornton, MD works in Las Vegas, Nevada is a specialist in Colon Surgery & Rectal Surgery and graduated Cook Co Hospital in 1978. Dr. Thornton is affiliated with Mountainview Hospital, Saint Rose Dominican Hospital - San Martin, St. Rose Dominican Hospitals - Siena, Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center and practicing for 52 years
Specialties
- Colon Surgery & Rectal Surgery
Conditions
• Adult Allergy• Cervical Spine Reconstruction
• Charcot Reconstruction
• Chelation Therapy
• Chronic Renal Insufficiency
• Conjunctivoplasty
• Dystonia 7, Torsion
• Herpes Simplex Virus Antenatal Infection
• Hypnosis (Medical Hypnotherapy)
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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• Minimally Invasive Resection of Mediastinal Tumor
• Muscular Dystrophy, Congenital, Type 1C
• Photosensitivity
• Renal Artery Stenosis (RAS)
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Procedures
• Anoscopy With Removal of Anal Tumor• Appendectomy, Open
• Colectomy
• Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
• Destruction of Anal Tumor
• Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
• Enterostomy (Laparoscopic or Open)
• Excision of Rectal Tumor
• Fistulectomy or Fistulotomy, Anal
• Hemorrhoidectomy or Excision of Anal Tags
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• Intestinal Transplant (incl. Enterectomy)
• Laparotomy
• Open Incisional and-or Ventral Hernia Repair
• Pelvic Exenteration (For: Gynecologic, Urinary, or Colorectal Malignancy)
• Proctectomy, Open or Laparoscopic (incl. Swenson and Duhamel Procedures)
• Removal of Reproductive Organs (Hysterectomy, Oophorectomy, Salpingectomy, Salpingo-Oophorectomy, Resection of Peritoneal Malignancy)
• Removal or Destruction of Rectal or Intestinal Tumor (incl. Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, Sigmoidoscopy and Control of Hemorrhage)
• Repair of Anal and Rectal Defects (Anoplasty, Repair of Imperforate Anus, Sphincteroplasty, Rectal Graft)
• Sphincterotomy
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Board Certifications
- Board Certified by the American Board of Colon & Rectal Surgery
Years Since Graduation
- 52
State License
- Nevada
Spoken Languages
- Spanish
Education & Training
Fellowship Hospital
Cook Co Hospital
Chicago, IL, USA
Year completed: 1978
Chicago, IL, USA
Year completed: 1978
Medical School
Meharry Medical College School Of Medicine
Nashville, TN, United States
Graduated: 1971
Nashville, TN, United States
Graduated: 1971
Awards
1 ACS - Surgeons
2 ASCRS - Colorectal
3 SWSC
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Office Locations
Primary location
Patient Care Center
1707 West Charleston Boulevard Suite 120
Nevada (NV)
Las Vegas
89102
Phone:(702) 671-5140
Additional data:
Free Standing Surgery Center? No
Performs Procedures On Site? Yes
Other Office Locations
University Nevada Schl Mdcn Sgy
1707 West Charleston Boulevard Suite 160
Nevada (NV)
Las Vegas
89102
Phone:(702) 671-5150
Additional data:
Free Standing Surgery Center? No
Performs Procedures On Site? Yes
Accepting New Patients
- Yes
Map & Directions
Patient Care Center, 1707 West Charleston Boulevard Suite 120, Las Vegas, Nevada (NV), 89102
Insurances Accepted (check insurance plans)
- Aetna
- Amerigroup (Wellpoint)
- Anthem
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Choice Plus POS
- Cigna
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Coventry Health Care
- Culinary Health Fund
- First Health (Coventry Health Care)
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- GEHA
- Golden Rule
- Government Employees Health Association (GEHA)
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- HealthSmart
- Humana
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Medicare MCR
- Meritain Health
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Open Access Plus
- Options PPO
- Pathway X HMO/Ind Direct Access NV
- POMCO Group
- Tricare
- UniCare
- United Healthcare
- UnitedHealthCare
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