Norton Family Practice is one of the oldest practices within Community Health Care. The office is located at 1193 Norton Ave., Suite A, in Norton, OH, 44203, phone 330-825-0847. The office manager is Deb Crawford, R.N. 

The office draws patients from Norton, Barberton, Doylestown, Copley, Wadsworth, Clinton, and other areas. To learn more about the communities we serve, click here.

Our office admits patients to Barberton Citizens Hospital, Akron General Medical Center, Summa Health Systems, and Childrens Hospital Medical Center of Akron.

For basic information every patient needs to know, click here.


Our Family Health Care Team

J. David Stokes, Jr. M.D. has been with the practice since 1987. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky School of Medicine, and did his family practice residency at Barberton Citizens Hospital. He is board certified in Family Practice with the American Board of Family Practice, and is a member of the American Academy of Family Practice. He has a special interest in patient health education and staff health education, and is very interested in doing public health talks on a variety of subjects. He is a certified infant and child carseat inspector. His scope of care also includes house calls, geriatric home safety and health evaluations, and newborn home visit for first checkup and safety issues. He is a certified CPR instructor with the American Heart Association.    Wanda Boyd is the family nurse practitioner at Community Health Care. She is a graduate of the Kent State University Masters Program in nursing, and is a certified familyt nurse practitioner in the state of Ohio. She has a special interest in  womens' health, health education, chronic disease management, and preventive health care. Wanda takes care of patients of all ages. . 

Rodney Ison, M.D. (left) of our Canal Fulton office has a limited schedule at Norton Family Practice. He is board certified in family practice and additionally board certified in geriatrics with the American Board of Family Practice. He is a member of the American Academy of Family Practice. As well as taking care of patients, he also serves as President of Community Health Care, Inc.

Services we provide

  • General Evaluation Services
    • Routine physical examinations
    • Illness prevention and treatment
    • Sport, camp, and school physicals
  • Pediatric Services
  • Geriatric Home Health Services
    • Geriatric Health Evaluation
    • Home visit for routine, acute, and chronic care
    • Nail care
    • Available for Assisting Living visits
    • Available for Nursing Home care
    • Geriatric Counseling care
  • Preventative Care
    • Cancer screening
    • AIDS screening and prevention education
    • Lifestyle and dietary counseling
    • Health maintenance and disease awareness

 

  • Laboratory Services
    (For explanations of the most common tests we order, click here)
    • Routine venipuncture, with transport to
      selected outside laboratories
    • Urinalysis
    • Urine Pregnancy Testing
    • Blood sugars (fingerstick)
    • Glucose tolerance tests (fingerstick)
    • In-House Protime testing
    • In-House Cholesterol testing
    • Rapid stress testing
  • Surgical / Orthopedic Services
    • Laceration repairs
    • Wart, mole, and growth removals
    • Abscess treatment
    • Nail removals
    • Minor burn treatment
    • Minor fracture management
    • Joint or tendon injection
  • Specialized treatment and evaluations
    • Tympanometry
    • EKG
    • Fluoroscopic eye exam
    • Simple visual evaluation
    • Routine x-ray views (plain film)
    • Bone densitometry, by appointment, for evaluation for osteoporosis

 

  • Gynecologic Services and Reproductive Services
    • Contraceptive counseling
  • Occupational Medicine
    • Routine company physicals
    • Pre-employment physicals
  • Patient Education
    • Diagnosis-specific written materials
    • Dietary instruction
    • Medication and injection training
    • Models, illustrations, videotapes and audio tapes
    • Well-child health and development educational materials for parents

 

Our Community
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