Community Springs
Healthcare Facility
Sept. 2020
Vol. 259
Community Springs Healthcare Facility is an affiliate of Citizens Memorial Health Care Foundation, Bolivar, Mo.
PH: 417-326-6000 Facility Location: 400 E. Hospital Rd., El Dorado Springs, MO 64744, 417-876-2531
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Facility Spotlight 1
CMSHCF Highlights 2
September Birthdays 2
Calendar of Events 3
Welcome Dr. Ortiz
CMH and El Dorado
Springs Medical Center
welcome internal medicine
physician Ivan Arismendi
Ortiz, M.D., to the medical
staff. He will begin seeing
patients Sept. 2.
Dr. Ortiz is board certified
by the American
Board of Internal Medicine.
He attended medical
school at Universidad
Nuestra Señora de La
Paz, Bolivia, and completed
a general medicine internship
and internal medicine
residency at Mount
Sinai Bronx-Lebanon Hospital
Center, Bronx, New
York.
Dr. Ortiz specializes in
treating patients 18 years
of age and older and can
see adults with multiple
health problems or complex
conditions. Call
EDSMC at 417-876-2118
to schedule an appointment.
Welcome Dr. Ortiz.
Resident Spot
Galen Gazaway
Galen was born in rural
Croweburg, Kansas, July 11 1943,
to parents Clifford and Frances
Gazaway. Galen had one sister
and five brothers. Galen was
raised near Mulberry, Kansas,
where he went to a one room
school house in the country. He
later attended high school in Bronaugh, Missouri.
Galen married Becky Gazaway in 1986. The couple
have four boys and eight grandchildren. Galen worked for
Crane Plumbing for thirty years and fourteen days. He
worked as a Fitter Packer and was well known at being
the fastest at his job.
In the early 1980s Galen was on the Johnny Carson
show. He was picked to come on stage and interview as a
stand in for Johnny that day, and he was chosen by the
audience to replace him.
His hobbies are woodworking and selling his crafts at
local craft fairs. Galen was a volunteer project leader in 4
-H with woodworking. He was inducted in the 4-H leaders
Hall of Fame with over twenty years of service.
This year he became a fifty year Mason at Erie, Illinois.