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Morgan Busse earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Washington in 2011. She spent eight years as an inpatient obstetric nurse at a high-acuity urban hospital in Seattle, where she developed a strong foundation in women’s health and patient-centered care. Driven by her passion for forming lasting partnerships with patients, Morgan returned to the University of Washington to earn her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in 2020, specializing as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). In 2025, she became a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP), a nationally recognized credential in perimenopause and menopause care. Morgan is the founder of Bespoke Health and Wellness, where she provides personalized, evidence-based care with a focus on midlife health and overall wellness. “Being a nurse practitioner is an absolute privilege. I get to partner with people in my community, and together we achieve their unique health goals.”

Morgan Busse earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Washington in 2011. She spent eight years as an inpatient obstetric nurse at a high-acuity urban hospital in Seattle, where she developed a strong foundation in women’s health and patient-centered care. Driven by her passion for forming lasting partnerships with patients, Morgan returned to the University of Washington to earn her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in 2020, specializing as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). In 2025, she became a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP), a nationally recognized credential in perimenopause and menopause care. Morgan is the founder of Bespoke Health and Wellness, where she provides personalized, evidence-based care with a focus on midlife health and overall wellness. “Being a nurse practitioner is an absolute privilege. I get to partner with people in my community, and together we achieve their unique health goals.”

Welcome To Charis Medical Center

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At Charis Medical Center, family medicine physician Linus Akamangwa, MD, provides primary care and holistic medicine to people of all ages living in and around Colorado Springs, Colorado, and throughout El Paso County.

Charis Medical Center is a Christian medical practice. Dr. Akamangwa believes God is the author of the healing process and works to facilitate that healing in others. God wants all people to feel and be well. Dr. Akamangwa uses this knowledge to help bring individuals toward a state of true wellness.

As a physician, Dr. Akamangwa is passionate about family care. His practice is welcoming to all people and offers holistic medicine. In addition to offering traditional treatments, Dr. Akamangwa believes in the power of prayer. In fact, he regularly incorporates it into care plans.

Individuals can receive a diagnosis for many common health problems, including asthma, the common cold, high blood pressure (hypertension), and diabetes. In addition, Dr. Akamangwa provides physicals, laboratory testing, and preventive screenings.

To receive all-inclusive health care in a warm and positive environment, partner with Dr. Akamangwa at Charis Medical Center. Book an appointment online or call the office to speak with an administrative staff member today.

Summit Health and Pain provides comprehensive health care and pain management services in Colorado with locations in Denver, Colorado Springs, La Junta, and Pueblo. Our practice's highly skilled and compassionate providers offer outstanding care by developing strong relationships with our patients and fulfilling their needs using a multidisciplinary approach.

While our team specializes in primary care with an emphasis on interventional pain management for patients suffering from chronic pain, neuropathy, migraines, and other conditions, our primary care services are also an integral part of our philosophy.

Our primary care services include treatment and management of a wide variety of conditions including diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid disorders, asthma, high cholesterol, and COPD.

Our primary care preventative medicine services include wellness exams for patients 7 and older and immunizations for patients 18 and older. We are able to provide resources to parents of children aged 7-18 on where to obtain the appropriate vaccinations for your child.

Summit Health and Pain’s providers also understand the importance of optimal mental health and are experienced in treating depression, anxiety, ADHD, and other mental health conditions.

Find out more about the exceptional services available at Summit Health and Pain and schedule a consultation by calling the nearest office or booking online.

We offer rapid testing and expert acute care for flu, strep, COVID-19, and other infectious diseases. We can often perform this testing for both existing and new patients with same or next-day appointments for your convenience.

We are one of the few practices in Southern Colorado who continually accept new patients with both commercial and public insurances such as Medicare, Medicaid, and HealthFirst Colorado.

For additional patient convenience, we will soon have a private lab – housed in our Colorado Springs location – which will ensure coverage of in-house lab tests, and pharmacy services are currently available in the same building as our Denver location.

Summit Health and Pain provides comprehensive health care and pain management services in Colorado with locations in Denver, Colorado Springs, La Junta, and Pueblo. Our practice's highly skilled and compassionate providers offer outstanding care by developing strong relationships with our patients and fulfilling their needs using a multidisciplinary approach.

While our team specializes in primary care with an emphasis on interventional pain management for patients suffering from chronic pain, neuropathy, migraines, and other conditions, our primary care services are also an integral part of our philosophy.

Our primary care services include treatment and management of a wide variety of conditions including diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid disorders, asthma, high cholesterol, and COPD.

Our primary care preventative medicine services include wellness exams for patients 7 and older and immunizations for patients 18 and older. We are able to provide resources to parents of children aged 7-18 on where to obtain the appropriate vaccinations for your child.

Summit Health and Pain’s providers also understand the importance of optimal mental health and are experienced in treating depression, anxiety, ADHD, and other mental health conditions.

Find out more about the exceptional services available at Summit Health and Pain and schedule a consultation by calling the nearest office or booking online.

We offer rapid testing and expert acute care for flu, strep, COVID-19, and other infectious diseases. We can often perform this testing for both existing and new patients with same or next-day appointments for your convenience.

We are one of the few practices in Southern Colorado who continually accept new patients with both commercial and public insurances such as Medicare, Medicaid, and HealthFirst Colorado.

For additional patient convenience, we will soon have a private lab – housed in our Colorado Springs location – which will ensure coverage of in-house lab tests, and pharmacy services are currently available in the same building as our Denver location.

Michael K. Cavanagh, MD joined Westmed Family HealthCare. He has a special interest in Sports Medicine and Wilderness Medicine. He is Board Certified. During his leisure time, Dr. Cavanagh enjoys running, cycling and snowboarding. Originally from Connecticut, he is married with two children.

Philosophy: 

"My primary goal as a physician is excellence in the care I provide. My philosophy is to treat my patients as a whole person, not just treating an illness.”

 

Specialty: Family Practice

In practice at WMFH: 1996

 

Education

Undergraduate: Drake University 1983 -1986

 

Medical School

University of Iowa 1990 -1993

Residency: University of Connecticut 1993 -1996

 

Board Certifications/Associations

American Board of Family Physicians, Board Certified 1993

American Academy of Family Physicians

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Colleen has been practicing Family Medicine in Colorado since 2012. Originally from Illinois, she earned her bachelor’s degree at Marquette University, attended graduate school at St. Louis University, and completed her Physician Assistant studies at Jefferson College of Health Sciences in 2008. Colleen is committed to providing care that is compassionate and non-judgmental. She strives to create an environment where patients feel comfortable and understood. Colleen believes in taking time to educate patients so they fully understand the “why” and “how” behind their health and treatment, empowering them to make informed decisions and take an active role in their well-being.

David R Zimmermann, is Colorado Recovery Solutions Chief Operating Officer (COO). He leads the Operations Team at Colorado Recovery Solutions in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to assist patients improve their mental health, provide alternatives to treatment resistant conditions, and give patients a different and more holistic pathway to life-changing treatments.

David graduated from the University of Colorado - Colorado Springs with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He also has two Associates Degrees in General Studies from Pikes Peak State College and in Applied Science for Allied Health / Practical Nursing from the Community College of the Air Force.  He is also a Veteran that served as an active-duty Air Force Medic in several different assignments. His specialties were Family Health as an Aerospace Medical Technician and Flight Medicine as a Flight and Operational Medical Technician. He worked closely in face-to-face patient care, clinical operations, headquarters medical management working groups and as a proficient first-responder out-in-the-field. He has also worked as an Emergency Medical Technician, Fire Fighter, Security and Parking Operations for different companies. His next goal is to get his Masters in Nursing with a specialty focus in Psychiatry.

His love for family, friends, nature, faith, science and his subjective life experiences have also inspired him to pursue a career in Advanced Clinical Psychiatry. He deeply relates to those suffering from all forms of mental health conditions and portrays a compassionate and empathetic care to finding a long-lasting or permanent healing.

He is a fluent Bilingual Spanish speaker, who is very proud to come from Central America. His other passion in the medical realm is to assist those that only speak Spanish or that speak very little English, to understand the full scope of their conditions and plan of care. As an immigrant himself, he personally witnessed the lack of resources and dire need in our immigrant communities, and wants to make an impact in where those services and resources are needed the most.

He loves caring for others and treating everyone with respect, dignity, humility and confidence. He is very happy to be leading the Operations Team at CRS and to harvest a community of empathetic professionals that are spearheading the way in our modern Mental Health Crisis with edge-cutting treatments and techniques.

Sarah Sato, NP, is a board-certified nurse practitioner and one of the co-founders of The Alpine Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, PC located in Superior, Colorado. Sarah completed a Bachelor of Arts in Communications at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. She went on to earn both her Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science in Nursing at Columbia University in New York City, where she was part of the Sigma Theta Tau Honors Society. As part of her training, Sarah worked as a registered nurse at the Manhattan Children's Center and student nurse practitioner at the Neighborhood Family and Health Center in the Bronx.

After completing her training, Sarah worked as a nurse practitioner at several facilities in Colorado, before starting The Alpine Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, PC in 2019. Sarah is board certified and holds both a Registered Nurse and Nurse Practitioner license in the state of Colorado and is a Certified Diabetes Educator. She has independent prescriptive authority and holds a Drug Enforcement Administration certificate, which allows her to prescribe medication for patient treatment.

Charles Ripp, MD, is a physician at Gorman Medical, PC, in Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek, Colorado. He is board-certified in anesthesiology, pain management, and family medicine and brings more than 40 years of experience to the practice.

Dr. Ripp earned his medical degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He completed his family practice residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and his anesthesiology residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Along with his residencies, Dr. Ripp has participated in additional pain management courses, including the Spinal Injection Society curriculum and the World Academy of Pain Medicine ultrasound curriculum.

At Gorman Medical, PC, Dr. Ripp specializes in interventional pain management. He offers a variety of in-office pain solutions and holds hospital privileges at Centura Health’s Penrose-St. Francis Health Services and UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central in Colorado Springs.

Dr. Ripp is a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), and the Colorado Society of Anesthesiology, among other professional organizations.

Jennie Barker, FNP-C, is a board-certified family nurse practitioner at Gorman Medical, PC, in Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek, Colorado.

Jennie earned her Bachelor of Science in nursing from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. After graduating, she worked as a registered nurse on a vascular medical surgical floor in Columbus, Ohio.

Jennie moved to Colorado in 2019 and worked in a cardiothoracic vascular stepdown floor at UC Health in Colorado Springs, before returning to school for her master’s degree. She earned her Master of Science in nursing from University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and graduated as a family nurse practitioner.

At Gorman Medical, PC, Jennie provides holistic care for the whole family and sees patients of all ages. She specializes in primary care working closely with her patients to help them manage their physical and mental well-being to achieve their best health.