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Facility Spotlight By Deborah Conn
Sized toFit
Kormylo Orthopedic offers patients a personal touch
FacilitY:
Kormylo Orthopedic Inc.
Location:
Boise and Nampa, Idaho
Owner:
Mark Kormylo, CPO
HISTORY: 38 years
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s Mark Kormylo, CPO, recounts it, his grandfather entered the O&P field by literally getting a (wooden) foot in the door. John Kormylo was a nine-year-old Russian immigrant in Minneapolis when he lost his leg scavenging coal at the rail yards. A limb and brace shop owner took pity on him and built the boy a wooden leg. John expressed his gratitude by sweeping up around the store, learning the business as he got older. In 1974, John and his son Phillip opened Kormylo Orthopedic Appliance in Rapid City, South Dakota, where Phillip’s younger brother, John, Jr., joined them. Eventually, John, Jr., ended up
with his own facility in Billings, Montana, while his brother Phillip moved to Idaho, where he opened shops in Idaho Falls, Pocatello, and, finally, Boise, where he settled in 1990. Phillip’s son, Mark, joined his father in the family business in 1977, assuming sole ownership of Kormylo Orthopedic Inc. in Boise in 2006. Although Phillip retired seven years ago, he still enjoys working a few days a month in the fabrication lab. For Mark, 37, the choice of a career was never in question. “My dad saved one of my papers from kindergarten,” he says. “I wrote, ‘I want to be a brace and limb man just like my dad and grandpa.’”