Dr. Ireland now seeing patients at CH-F
Dr. Emerson Ireland is no stranger to Community Hospital-Fairfax.
He graduated high school from Fairfax in 1962, his wife, Donna was a nurse’s aid
at the hospital and his oldest son was born there. Dr. Ireland has even been a patient
at Community Hospital-Fairfax. He had his tonsils taken out as a boy, followed by
an appendectomy and other procedures.
Those ties to Community Hospital-Fairfax are what brought him back when he was asked
to help the Emergency Services and Fairfax Family Practice after Dr. James K. Hunter
moved in July of this year.
Dr. Ireland said his experience with Community Hospital-Fairfax has always been
a positive one.
“It’s a friendly, small-town hospital. It’s more of a hands-on hospital that you
won’t normally find,” he said.
Dr. Ireland has experience as a long time private practice physician but has also
spent years working in numerous Emergency Care facilities, including the West Plains,
Mo. Trauma Center and the local E.R. in Richmond, Mo. where he lived for several
years.
Community Hospital-Fairfax welcomes Dr. Ireland and the services he provides for
the community. He is available to patients through Fairfax Family Practice by appointment
and will be available at Community Hospital-Fairfax’s Emergency Room services.