Generations of Care

Primary care physician Louis Kareha, DOgrew up at Community Medical Center. His entire family has been part of CMC’s caring community of healthcare professionals for decades. Now he too practices medicine here.As a child, Dr. Kareha made house calls with his grandfather, the first Dr. Louis Kareha. Louis G. Kareha, MD was a major force in the development and operation of the Department of Family Practice. He was fiercely loyal to both “his hospital” and “his patients,” known for making rounds every day before the sun rose, and driving through the blinding snow to patients’ homes in their time of need.CMC continued to be home to the younger Kareha because his father worked here for nearly 30 years as a medical technician and his mother was a CMC nurse. With such compassion in the family, it was no surprise he became a teen volunteer in eighth grade.Today Dr. Kareha serves as CMC’s subsection chief of family practiceand devotes one day a week to working in our Wound Care Center as a hyperbaric specialist. When reflecting upon the Kareha generations at CMC, he says, “there have been many technological advances at the hospital, but it remains a comfortable place to be and deeply committed to the people of this area.”