Podiatrist to join the staff at EARH

Services continue to expand to benefit the Ritzville area community at East Adams Rural Hospital as a part time podiatrist has recently been hired. Katie Swanstrom begins offering podiatric services at EARH on May 10.

The current schedule allows Swanstrom to travel to Ritzville once a month from Spokane, where the Spokane Foot Clinic currently employs her. Swanstrom is providing foot and ankle care services either on the first or second Thursday of the month.

There are only eight certified podiatric colleges in the United States, which determined where Swanstrom would attend college. She wante...