Mountain Medical Arts PLLC & Aesthetics

09/03/2025

Mountain Medical Arts celebrates Lisa Banks, our longest-standing employee, since 2006, this Labor Day Week. Though she officially retired last year, to care for her first grandbaby, companion her retired-local-sheriff husband Gary, and support their new family business Burnsville Auto Connection, she swoops in like a super hero when MMA needs her, like during Hayleigh’s maternity leave this summer.

(Distinguishing between this Medical Assistant Lisa and our second-longest-standing employee, Nurse Lisa Flynn, means using last names in house, so here too I’ll refer endearingly to this Lisa as Banks going forward.)

Banks may be best known for her exuberant presence, shining the Light to welcome all who come through MMA’s doors, no matter what mood she may be in. For all yinz out there who know Lisa, you know this about her, along with her exceptional competence, reliability, work ethic, and unflappability even in the heat of things. You may also know her humor and sass, as well practiced as her good manners and grace.

Beyond our office, Banks may be introducing grandson Banner to a new bubble mower or coconut swing, doing the books or securing a title for Auto Connection, riding with Gary far away to pick up a car or go to a car show, showing up for her church or a community cause, crafting, or lovingly decorating her home for the season.

Behind the scenes, Banks & Dr. Polgar (Jeff) share a sibling-like banter, making the office sound even more like “work family.” But it’s this very sense of work family and familiarity that draws and keeps so many of MMA’s patients, some of which Banks has known for almost 20 years. If you haven’t yet basked in the glow of Banks’s warm welcome, when we’re lucky to get her back, and that of other work family here at MMA and would like to, give us a call to learn more about our Direct Primary Care practice and schedule a Meet n Greet with Jonathan Polgar, our Physician Assistant accepting new patients: 828-678-9352.

08/29/2025

What is Somatic Experiencing® (SE) trauma resolution therapy? With minimal talking and not having to relive the trauma? With Jonathan Polgar, PA-C SEP, here in Burnsville at MMA or via Zoom from anywhere? For anyone: MMA members and nonmembers alike? Phone MMA to explore this healing opportunity for yourself: 828-678-9352.
Click links in comments for a video about how SE works and info about SE at MMA.

08/22/2025

MMA Members, we would love your help with Google reviews, especially if you’re a patient of Jonathan, as he builds his panel.

Why have you chosen MMA?

What’s made you invest in MMA’s Direct Primary Care membership, especially if you already have a generous insurance plan or if it’s a stretch for you financially?

What do you get with MMA that you know you can’t with conventional, insurance-based primary care?

Use the link in Comments below to navigate to MMA’s Google review site.

We’d love your help alerting other MMA patients you know who aren’t regulars on social media.

Thank you for your consideration and patronage. It’s patients like you who let us practice medicine like we truly want to.

08/13/2025

Did you know anyone can purchase supplements at Mountain Medical Arts? That you don’t have to be a member? And that many of our supplements–carefully curated by Dr. Rothe–often price out more affordably than Amazon prices? You may want to call ahead to make sure we have what you’re looking for: 828-678-9352.

08/06/2025

At Mountain Medical Arts, we do even more than Direct Primary Care for our members. MMA also offers to members and the community at large these services:
a Community Dermatology Clinic Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays,
Somatic Experiencing trauma resolution & CranioSacral minimal-talking healing therapies,
Cynosure MediSpa laser hair removal, skin revitalization & body contouring.

For its members, MMA specializes in Direct Primary Care, with Jonathan Polgar, PA-C (pictured left) with 20+ years experience now accepting new patients. DPS is currently $65/mo, $25 almost-hour-long appointments, discounts on labs, with some procedures still billable to insurance for those who have it. Included for MMA’s DPS members is care from Susan Fish-Cedergren, RN, NC-BC (pictured right) with almost 30 years experience.

Ready to learn more? 828-678-9352

I’m pleased to report both Jonathan & Susan have since recovered from their concurrent hand traumas (as pictured) and are now more fully available to offer you a hand, or two.

08/01/2025

At Mountain Medical Arts, we get to invite you not into a sterile office but into an actual house, a former bed & breakfast still beautifully decorated as such, across from NuWray Inn off Burnsville’s Town Square. Exam Room 1 is where the brothers, Jeff & Jonathan Polgar, mostly see patients. The Native American regalia featured was a gift to Dr. Rothe during residency in Alaska's Metlakatla reservation. Our pleasure to offer you a peek inside.

DPC or Direct Primary Care means non-insurance-based medicine: a family doctor with a subscription service like in the old days. It’s especially helpful if you have no or high-deductible health insurance. At MMA it’s $65/mo, $25 almost-hour-long appointments, discounts on labs, with some procedures still billable to insurance for those who have it. Schedule a Meet n Greet with Jonathan Polgar, PA-C, our Primary Care Provider with 20+ years experience, who’s accepting new patients.
Maybe MMA will become your new medical home.

07/26/2025

At Mountain Medical Arts, our handful of staff and intimate number of patients allow us to really get to know you. Plus we get to invite you into an actual house, a former bed & breakfast still beautifully decorated as such, and coincidentally the past home of Burnsville family doctor Dr. Wray of the same NuWray Inn family.

DPC or Direct Primary Care means non-insurance-based medicine: a family doctor with a subscription service like in the old days. It’s especially helpful if you have no or high-deductible health insurance. At MMA it’s $65/mo, $25 almost-hour-long appointments, discounts on labs, with some procedures still billable to insurance for those who have it. Schedule a Meet n Greet with Jonathan Polgar, PA-C, our Primary Care Provider with 20+ years experience, who’s accepting new patients.
Maybe MMA will become your next medical home.

07/17/2025

Have no or high deductible health insurance? Or have a derm want not covered by your insurance? Mountain Medical Arts in Burnsville is still offering Community Dermatology Clinics with Jonathan Polgar, our Physician Assistant with 20+ years' experience. MMA Members: $25 exams with $35-$160 treatments. Non-Members: $150 exams with $100-$275 treatments. Many insurances don't cover cosmetic removal, but we can remove most lesions even if not premalignant.

A derm appointment may also be a good excuse to meet Jonathan, who is also accepting new patients as a Direct Primary Care P*P: $65/mo, $25 almost-hour-long appointments, discounts on labs, with some procedures still billable to medical insurance for those who have it. Maybe MMA will become your next medical home.

Phone about questions, further prices, insurance coverage: 828-678-9352.

07/09/2025

In honor of her birthday today and 13-year work anniversary, Mountain Medical Arts would like to celebrate our second longest-standing employee, Nurse Lisa Flynn,
whose loyal service has enriched MMA since July 2012.

(Distinguishing between this Lisa and our longest-standing employee, Medical Assistant Lisa Banks, means using last names in house, so here too I’ll refer endearingly to this Lisa as Flynn.)

Flynn runs a tight ship here at MMA. I’d say her standards in care, ethics, and organization are as high as her heart is big. She’s known for her aptitude in phone coordination of care with specialists, hospital services & insurance companies. But she’s equally known for her compassion with patients: her attentiveness not just to our physical health but also our mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.

When she’s not in the office, Flynn’s often caring for her Momma or their huge garden, tending her soul at church or in her gratitude journal, planning a camper trip with her husband Mike, or visiting her only child Seth in Chapel Hill, where he’s in his dermatology residency.

One of my favorite things about Flynn is routinely hearing her on the phone with patients on business and still closing with “I love you,” given her knowing some patients that well, and because that’s the kind of medical practice we are, that over time coming here can seem like coming to another home. If you don’t already benefit from the care of Lisa Flynn and other staff here at MMA and would like to, give us a call to learn more about our Direct Primary Care practice and schedule a Meet n Greet: 828-678-9352.

07/03/2025

Guests coming to town? Recommending a Burnsville romantic retreat? Seeking an intimate venue for your small event? Mountain Medical Arts also hosts an AirBnB, Cottage on the Square, behind its office and beside its English courtyard. Prime location for enjoying annual Burnsville Town Square or Town Center traditions like this weekend’s 4th of July festivities, August’s Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair, September’s Old Timey Festival, October’s Trick or Treat and Harvest Market Craft Show, December’s Christmas Parade or April’s Fit Family 5k in April as well as concerts and other events. We’re proud to have hosted past Lit Fest & RiddleFest headliners. We have Mrs. Jane Bellack Wray, wife of Dr. Rush Wray, to thank for creating this cottage in the 1950s, and also for her English courtyard that Dr. Rothe maintains. Interested in booking? Click the link in the comments below…

06/29/2025

For those without health insurance or with only high-deductible health plans and in need of primary care, or those insured but seeking more personalized medical care, we invite you to consider Mountain Medical Arts Direct Primary Care. Our Physician Assistant Jonathan Polgar offers the expertise of over 20 years in family practice plus a gifted way of being with his patients to get to the heart of the matter. Membership is $65/month, almost-hour appointments are $25/visit, lab work is discounted, and insurance can be billed for some procedures.

06/21/2025