Category: Donations
ALBION, Nebraska (July 27, 2022) – Keith and the late Mary Bittner family are making good on the challenge commitments for the new Boone County ambulance garage. Accepting the second $50,000 check from Keith Bittner are hospital employees Geoff McGill, Dr. Tony Kusek, Sarah Grape and Tanya Sharp. Little did More…
ALBION, Nebraska (April 14, 2022) -Keith and Mary Bittner have farmed south of Albion for the 45 years they have been married. Growing corn and soybeans and feeding hogs in the earlier years, the Bittners decided they wanted more challenges in life. With Keith’s encouragement, Mary decided to go into More…
Boone County Health Center delivered self-care packages to staff at Good Samaritan Society – Wolf Memorial Nursing Home and Samaritan Estates Assisted Living this week as a way to say thank you for the care staff provided for residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The self-care packages contained a bottle of More…
The week of the Boone County Big Give, Boone County Health Center will host a free soup and sandwich luncheon during which Dr. Joel Travis and nurse Katie Laska will explain more about the health center’s 2019-2020 Priority Project “Closer to Home.” This project will raise money to purchase a More…
Applied Connective staff got a jump start on the giving season this year with a donation to the Boone County Health Center’s Cancer Care program. In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Applied Connective held a company-wide fundraiser this October selling pink t-shirts depicting the breast cancer awareness message “proud More…
Boone County Health Center is pleased to announce Tina Karmann has received the first annual Babcock/Buckles Advanced Nursing Scholarship. This scholarship was established by Carol A. Buckles to honor her deceased brother Harold Babcock Jr. as well as her sister-in-law Shirley Babcock who worked at Good Samaritan Society – Albion More…
Boone County Health Center has received a generous grant from the COPIC Medical Foundation for LEAP Leadership Training. The COPIC Medical Foundation’s main focus is improving health care outcomes through advancements in patient safety and quality improvement, which are top priorities at Boone County Health Center. Since its founding, the More…
Boone County Health Center Foundation has recently expanded donor options for giving with the creation of an endowment. “Creating an endowment offers donors who want to invest in the long term financial wellbeing of Boone County Health Center a way to do that,” said Boone County Health Center Foundation Director More…
The children of Edward “E.J.” and Dorothy “Dott” Koenig have made a donation to Boone County Health Center (BCHC) in loving memory of their parents. E.J. grew up on a farm east of Petersburg until 1944. Then, at the age of 12, he moved to the family farm west of More…
Boone County Health Center (BCHC) recently received the Aksarben Friends Community Grant from the Aksarben Foundation. This grant will help fund BCHC’s 2018-2019 Priority Project “3D – A Clearer View” to upgrade from 2D to 3D mammography. BCHC is the only mammography site in Boone County and the surrounding area. More…