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DAYTON – The Columbia County Health System has hired Dr. Kurt Frauenpreis as the newest member of its team. Dr. Frauenpreis has just signed the contract and will begin seeing patients at Columbia Family Clinic, in Dayton, and at Dayton General Hospital in mid-July, according to CCHS interim CEO Jon Smiley.

Dr. Frauenpreis, who received his MD from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in 1988, comes to Columbia County from the Pinedale Medical Clinic in Pinedale, Wyoming. He completed his residency at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine as well as the American Board of Geriatrics.

CCHS lost two doctors in December following the resignation of Kim Abernethy and Marek Marcinkiewicz.