Olympic Medical Center has recruited seven medical care providers and a local surgeon who has come out of retirement to help meet the community’s health care needs.

Dr. Bob Watkins, an orthopedic surgeon, has come out of his second retirement. He is part of the Olympic Medical Physicians Orthopedic Clinic group with Drs. Dirk Gouge and Loren Larson and will perform surgeries at Olympic Medical Center.

Dr. Cynthia Brooke, OB/GYN, has joined Jamestown Family Medicine

in Sequim.

Miriam Talley and Loren Krause, certified registered nurse anesthetists, will work in OMC’s birth center.

Drs. Eric Swanson, Jennifer Swanson and Wade Austin, hospitalists, provide 24-hour physician coverage for patients during their hospital stay, in conjunction with the patients’ primary physicians.

Dr. Gregory Harrah joined Peninsula Emergency Services, OMC’s emergency medicine physician group.

For more information, call 417-7000 or see www.olympicmedical.org.