(KLZA)-- Community Hospital located in Fairfax, Missouri has announced that board certified General Surgeon Roderick Warren will be joining the hospital's team of specialists beginning in October.

Dr. Warren will allow the hospital to expand local surgical services for area patients.

Dr. Warren will begin work at the hospital on Thursday, October 8. He will then see patients onsite the second and fourth Thursday of each month.

Dr. Warren has more than 20 years of surgical experience and offers a full array of general surgery services.

In addition, Dr. Warren provides surgical services in Falls City, Nebraska, Hiawatha, Kansas and Atchison, Kansas.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact Community Hospital in Fairfax at 660-686-2335.