Category: New Staff

Boone County Health Center is pleased to announce Courtney Schindler, RRT is the new Respiratory Therapist taking over for Jeff Hopkins. Schindler grew up in Petersburg and attended Southeast Community College in Lincoln where she earned a degree in Respiratory Care. Schindler has worked in the Respiratory Therapy Department at More…

Licensed Practical Nurse Shelly Babb has become Boone County Health Center’s (BCHC’s) newest Nurse Navigator. “Nurse Navigators were put into place to really spend time talking with patients and getting to know them on a deeper level,” said Babb. “Our goal is to help patients stay healthy enough they don’t More…

Boone County Health Center and Caravan Health today announced a new collaboration to strengthen health care for the Boone County Health Center community. In this new arrangement, area health providers will form a Medicare accountable care organization (ACO) with the goals of providing coordinated, high quality health care and achieving More…

Boone County Health Center (BCHC) has added Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) Katie Alder to the Physical Therapy (PT) team. Alder grew up near Newman Grove and earned her Associated Degree of Applied Science in PTA from Northeast Community College in August of 2007. She lives in St. Edward with her More…

We are pleased to announce Medical Oncologist Dr. Joni A. Tilford will join our Specialty Clinic beginning March 7, 2018. Dr. Tilford practices at Southeast Nebraska Cancer Center in Lincoln and has family ties to the Albion area. “We are excited to add Dr. Tilford to our Oncology Specialty Clinic. More…

Boone County Health Center hired two men from the Philippines, Mario Patalinjug Jr. and Jake Tagle, to work in the Lab.   “We started looking for Medical Technicians (MTs) in November 2014. Since then, we’ve had two more MTs leave,” said Vice President of Human Resources Jennifer Beierman. “There is just More…

Candice Schnoor, one of our nurses, passed the national certification exam to become Wound Care Certified (WCC) by the National Alliance of Wound Care and Ostomy. Now Candice is on our Wound Care Team. The Wound Care Team was funded by donations from this year’s Hospital Gala. They care for More…

This month we welcome Dr. Weekly to Boone County Health Center (BCHC). He will join Dr. Novotny in doing our Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Specialty Clinic. “We offer a variety of specialty clinics, and Dr. Weekly is a great addition,” said Vice President of Patient Services Cindy Lesiak. “We More…

Courtney Cockerill, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) is joining our Anesthesia team. She grew up in Albion and graduated from Boone Central Schools in 2006. After graduation, Courtney went to nursing school at Creighton University in Omaha where she received her degree as a Registered Nurse (RN). She worked at More…