(August 26, 2022) – Stormont Vail Health’s recent partnership with Geary Community Hospital and Rural Health Clinic in Junction City has resulted in increased access to healthcare services delivered by Stormont Vail medical specialists and other providers in the region.
According to a release from Stormont Vail Health these services are in addition to inpatient and clinic services already provided at the Geary Community facility by the GCH team of physicians, advance practice providers and team. The goal of these efforts is to enhance access to high-quality primary and specialty care, surgical and procedural needs, and emergency and inpatient care that is closer to home for those living and working in Geary County and surrounding areas.
Providers who have started or have plans to provide services at Geary Community Hospital since Stormont Vail Health began managing operations at GCH include:
Mitchell J. Bartley, D.O., will begin providing care at Geary Community Wound Care on Wednesdays,
beginning Aug. 31. A Stormont Vail provider, Dr. Bartley is a board certified Family Medicine specialist and has additional training in wound care.
Nicholas Duethman, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon with Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Center and Manhattan Surgical Hospital, began providing services at Geary Community Hospital and Rural Health Clinic this week. He will perform surgeries on Wednesdays and have clinics on Thursdays.
Wael Khreiss, M.D., a Stormont Vail general surgeon who is also medical director of the bariatrics program, is now providing clinic and surgeries in Junction City.
Travis Dierenfeld, M.D., a gastroenterologist with Stormont Vail in Manhattan, provides digestive health procedures on Thursdays at Geary Community. Plans are for Molly Disbrow, M.D., and Paul Zachary, M.D., to eventually provide digestive health services at Geary Community as well.
David B. Kemp, M.D., an obstetrician-gynecologist with Stormont Vail in Emporia, will provide back-up coverage to the Geary Community OB team.
Laura Hughes, M.D., and Pamela Grant, M.D., and the Stormont Vail Maternal Fetal Medicine team will be offering clinics and OB imaging services to patients three days a month at Geary Community.
Fouad Medlej, M.D., a Stormont Vail Pediatric Hospitalist, has assisted at GCH in inpatient pediatrics.
Gilbert Katz, M.D., and Patrick Birkbeck, M.D., Stormont Vail cardiologists, continue to provide cardiology services at Geary Community.
Tyler Grindal, M.D., Topeka Ear Nose and Throat, has an outpatient clinic and does surgery at GCH.