Elesha Draeger, a nurse practitioner, has recently joined Dr. Phillip Bortmes and the staff at St. John’s Clinic in Oswego. Elesha has been a nurse practitioner for approximately five years. She is originally from Scammon and attended junior and senior high school at Columbus. She has a family practice speciality with pediatric care as an area of interest. She likes to focus on allergies, asthma and endocrinology (specifically diabetes). She also is employed on an as needed basis at Oswego Community Hospital and Elk River Health Services in McDonald County, Missouri.
Elesha has been married to her husband, Ben, for 12 years and has two children–Cameron, 7 and Katelyn, 18 months. Her husband is a cattleman and sells crop insurance. Her hobbies are fishing, scuba diving and she has a salt water fish tank which simulates an ocean diving experience. She loves to travel to mostly warm weather beach areas to pursue her hobby of scuba diving. She lives in rural Cherokee County between Columbus and Oswego.
Her hours are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.