After 25 years in the emergency department at Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center, Dr. Bruce Gross has hung up his emergency room stethoscope and retired.
Gross spent his first three years as a doctor as a general practitioner in Payson, Arizona. From there he moved to Goodland, Kansas where he was in general practice for seven years.
He transferred to emergency work in Carlsbad, New Mexico for four years before making the move to Salida.
Gross started his emergency room work in Salida at the old hospital, now the Touber building, where he said the emergency department consisted of one room with three beds and a nurseâs desk, curtains dividing the space between the beds.