{"id":41681,"date":"2022-03-15T18:15:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T18:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/axis-health-system-hires-new-family-physician\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:02:35","slug":"axis-health-system-hires-new-family-physician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/axis-health-system-hires-new-family-physician\/","title":{"rendered":"Axis Health System hires new family physician"},"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=599c1d95-a4d5-56ce-af91-a49372d73358&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"360\" height=\"429\" alt=\"Dr. David Ryan is a new doctor at Axis Health System in Cortez.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dr. David Ryan is a new doctor at Axis Health System in Cortez.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Axis Health System in Cortez has a new physician.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. David Ryan practices family medicine, including for newborns.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. He graduated from Des Moines University with a Doctor of Osteopathy in 2001. He and his wife have seven children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Ryan is a compassionate and committed physician\u201d said Axis Health System Chief Medical Officer Dr. Luke Casias, in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan joins the Axis Health System\u2019s primary care team, which includes family nurse practitioners Kirsten Howell, Justine Smith and Shawna Yates.<\/p>\n<p>To make an appointment with Ryan at the Axis Health System clinic, call 970-565-7946. The clinic is at 691 E. Empire St. in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>New patients are being accepted and there are a variety of payment options, including Medicaid, CHP+, and most insurance. A sliding-fee scale is available for those who qualify.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axishealthsystem.org\/locations\/cortez\/cortez-integrated-healthcare\/\" id=\"link-5a46af70379fb2ad1f36277fdaa7cbdd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.axishealthsystem.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from St. Petersburg, Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41681","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=41681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85059,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41681\/revisions\/85059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41681"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}