{"id":15752,"date":"2025-11-10T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/axis-health-system-adds-physician-assistant-to-cortez-roster\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:50:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:50:33","slug":"axis-health-system-adds-physician-assistant-to-cortez-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/axis-health-system-adds-physician-assistant-to-cortez-roster\/","title":{"rendered":"Axis Health System adds physician assistant to Cortez roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7f2d3038-cc72-5fd8-a798-f7867ad4d6dc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1019\" height=\"1272\" alt=\"Korby Howell is joining Axis Health System in Cortez. (Axis Health System\/Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Korby Howell is joining Axis Health System in Cortez. (Axis Health System\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Axis Health System recently added physician assistant Korby Howell to the medical staff at Cortez Integrated Healthcare, where he provides primary care services to patients of all ages.<\/p>\n<p>Howell has more than seven years of experience in family medicine and addiction treatment, with an emphasis on integrated mental and physical health care. He previously worked at Marshfield Medical Center in Michigan, where he established and led a Medication-Assisted Treatment program for patients with substance use disorders.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as clinical faculty at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston and at Carroll University, where he guided physician assistant students studying family and behavioral health medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it\u2019s important to focus on the whole person when providing health care,\u201d Howell said. \u201cIn family medicine, we have a unique opportunity to develop long-term relationships with our patients and their families. Building trust is what allows us to deliver high-quality, personalized care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Howell earned his master\u2019s degree in physician assistant studies from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and a bachelor\u2019s in exercise science from Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, where he graduated magna cum laude.<\/p>\n<p>To schedule an appointment with Howell, call (970) 565-7946 or visit <a href=\"www.axishealthsystem.org\" id=\"link-6e259f7f42f002ecac9f102b963a989a\" target=\"_blank\">www.axishealthsystem.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>previously worked in Michigan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,61,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-15752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19824,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15752\/revisions\/19824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15752"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=15752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}