(KLZA)-- A new doctor will join the Johnson County Hospital staff in July of 2022.

The Tecumseh Chieftan reports Dr. Grant Saltzgaber will be a full-time primary care physician.   Dr. Saltzgaber is currently working in the emergency room and at Tecumseh Family Health while completing his residency in family medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

Saltzgaber grew up near Palmer, Nebraska and obtained a masters in physics from Oregon State University and worked as a computer technology engineer in Oregon.  He and his wife moved to Omaha where he enrolled in medical school at UNMC.