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Phone: (276) 783-8183 "Jeff" Jones was born in Youngstown, Ohio, on June 17, 1940. He and his wife Polly are proud of their three grown children Karen, Stephen, and Bethany. Dr. Jones is a board-certified pediatrician who practices in partnership with three other pediatricians in the small town of Marion, Virginia. Dr. Jones earned an AB degree in 1962 from Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he took an MD degree in 1966. Next, he commenced a rotating internship at Maine Medical Center in Portland, completing his training in 1967. Dr. Jones practiced at the United States Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Ft. Defiance, Arizona from 1967 to 1969. From 1969 until 1972, he worked at the Chikore Mission Hospital in Craigmore, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Then he spent two years at the United State Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Tuba City, Arizona. In 1974, Dr. Jones began a pediatric residency with Phoenix Hospitals Affiliated Pediatric Program in Phoenix, Arizona. He completed his residency training in 1977 and moved to Marion, Virginia, where he began working with Marion Pediatric Associates. Dr. Jones is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is certified in Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Newborn Advanced Life Support (NALS). Dr. Jones is a certified PALS instructor.
Office hours of the practice are 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday;. 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m Wednesday; 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Friday and 8:00 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday. The physicians average being on call one day a week and one weekend in four. Dr. Jones is not often called out when he is on call, handling most concerns by telephone. He feels it would be good for residents to accompany him when he is called to the emergency room to see patients. Dr. Jones estimates that 40% of his patients are infants, 40% are children, and 20% are adolescents. By source of pay, he estimates that 60% of his patients have Medicaid, 35% are privately insured, and 5% have no insurance coverage. There are always two or three physicians seeing patients in the office at Marion Pediatric Associates. Each physician sees an average of 25 patients per day and each physician has 3 exam rooms at his or her disposal. The practice has a waived medical laboratory on the premises. Patients are referred across the street to the hospital for more complex laboratory tests, emergency care, and x-rays. To encourage families to seek counseling and to facilitate access, a psychologist sees patients on the premises one day a week.
When it comes to personal interests, Dr. Jones says that he enjoys music and gardening. He plays bagpipes, sometimes marches in parades, and occasionally performs at community events with a band from Abingdon, Virginia. He also plays banjo and string bass. Dr. Jones participates in church activities at Royal Oak Presbyterian in Marion where he is an elder, sings in the choir, and sometimes plays the organ. Residents who rotate with Dr. Jones may stay in cabins on the lake at nearby Hungry Mother State Park or in some cottages in downtown Marion. The Southwest Mental Health Institute has refurbished a wing into efficiency apartments and residents may stay there. Residents may also choose to stay in local hotels Budget Host, Best Western, or EconoLodge. GMEC can try to locate other furnished houses or apartments for residents, but we cannot guarantee results because short-term rentals are hard to secure in rural areas. Smyth County Community Hospital is a 176-bed acute care facility with a broad range of services emergency, inpatient and outpatient care, intensive care, surgery and anesthesia, obstetrics, radiology, imaging, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, laboratory, nutrition, physical therapy, pharmacy, and home health. The hills and hollows of Smyth County's landscape are divided into three valleys by the crests of Iron, Walker, and Little Mountains. Branches of the Holston River drain each valley. The town of Marion (pop. 6,630) lies in the middle of the central valley in Smyth County. Quiet homesteads, pastured hills, and patches of dense forest characterize the local landscape. Major elements of the economy are manufacturing, transfer payments (retirement pensions, disability income, and welfare benefits) retail trade, personal services, and tobacco and stock farming. In 1995, the largest employers were Utility Trailer (truck trailers), Dana Corporation (motor vehicle parts), Virginia House Furniture, and Marion Composites (aircraft parts). U.S. Interstate 81 bisects Smyth County and passes through Marion. There are several shopping centers in town, with a number of department and discount stores, cinema screens, restaurants, groceries and boutiques. The Museum of Middle Appalachia is nearby in Saltville. Hungry Mother State Park is seven miles north of Marion, with facilities for camping, picnicking, hiking, biking, boating, swimming, fishing, and horseback riding. Mount Rogers National Recreation Area is about 10 miles south of Marion and features the highest peak in Virginia.
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George
F. "Jeff" Jones, M.D.
Marion Pediatric Associates includes four
pediatricians Dr. Jones, Raul Montero, M.D., Juan Beteta, M.D., and Alice McDowell, M.D., and one pediatric
nurse practitioner, Becky Ewald. Dr. McDowell also precepts for GMEC. 
Dr. Jones and his colleagues maintain
newborn and pediatric privileges at Smyth County Community Hospital.
During
the winter, they often round on 2-5 patients a day. The physician
on call makes hospital rounds.