MINERAL WELLS – Dr. Gustavo Del Toro, a longtime North Texas physician, has joined Palo Pinto General Hospital as a hospitalist caring for sufferers throughout their stays.
Del Toro, who has been in apply for 19 years, began May 31 at PPGH and is the newest addition to Palo Pinto General Hospital’s rising county-wide community.
“Dr. Del Toro has a wonderful reputation, and he comes to Palo Pinto General Hospital with a deep understanding of the healthcare needs of small communities,” Ross Korkmas, chief govt of Palo Pinto General Hospital, mentioned. “Palo Pinto General Hospital continues to grow and recruit more healthcare professionals to our team.”
Del Toro works for the Lubbock-based Concord Medical Group as a contracted hospitalist physician. Concord employs the hospitalists and emergency room physicians who work at Palo Pinto General Hospital. Dr. Del Toro moved to PPGH from Eastland Memorial Hospital in Eastland, the place he was a hospitalist for Concord.
“The people are more appreciative in rural healthcare than they are in the bigger cities and are friendlier,” Del Toro, who plans to maneuver his household into the Parker County-Palo Pinto space, mentioned.
Del Toro earned his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine in 1999 from Midwestern University’s Chicago College of Medicine at Downer’s Grove, IL. He did his residency in household apply at UCSF Fresno in Fresno, CA., and moved to Texas in 2006 after residency to change into an pressing care physician at a CareNow clinic in Coppell.
“The housing prices were amazing,” Del Toro says of what initially caught his consideration about the potential for shifting to Texas. He has held a number of posts as a physician all through the Dallas-Fort Worth space, together with at PPGH between 2008 and 2010.
Del Toro was drawn to medication by way of his personal private expertise as a toddler recognized with bronchial asthma. “I spent a lot of time in doctors’ offices,” he mentioned. “It inspired me to become a doctor.”