Category: News
Boone County Health Center’s (BCHC’s) Board of Trustees members Kim Beierman, Don Casper, Jody Choat, Paul Groeteke and Ken Schmitz have achieved the status of Nebraska Hospital Association (NHA) Certified Hospital Trustee by completing the requirements of the NHA Research and Educational Foundation’s Hospital Trustee Community Accountability Education Certification Program. More…
UPDATE: This event has been postponed, because our speaker could not make it due to heavy snow in her area. *************************************************** Boone County Health Center (BCHC) will host an opportunity to hear about human sex trafficking. This event is free and open to all people and will take place at 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’s (BCHC’s) old Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) unit is not as old as a dinosaur, but at 45 tons it certainly weighs as much as one. BCHC has begun the process of disassembling the old unit to make way for a new MRI unit that will more More…
In honor of “No-Shave November” some male staff at Boone County Health Center (BCHC) set down their razors and skipped haircuts for an entire month. No-Shave November started as an online non-profit with a goal of embracing hair, which many cancer patients lose, in order to get people talking about More…
The Health Insurance Marketplace is open right now, but it will be closing soon. To sign up for a new 2019 health plan or renew or change a health plan for 2019 visit: www.healthcare.gov. The last day to do this is December 15th, 2018. After this date, a “Special Enrollment Period” More…
Today, on National Rural Health Day, Boone County Health Center (BCHC) announced it has been recognized by The Chartis Center of Rural Health and the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) for excellence in all three categories: Quality, Patient Perspective and Outcomes, reflecting top quartile performance among More…
Did you know the number of former smokers in the United States has been higher than the number of current smokers since 2002? Are you ready to join the group of former smokers? Quitting can be intimidating, but with free resources like the Nebraska Tobacco Quitline, it can be so 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…
Boone County Health Center (BCHC) Foundation annually offers the Marilyn Nissen Nursing Scholarship to assist students who are pursuing a degree in nursing. Marilyn Nissen, R.N. was a long-time oncology nurse at BCHC. She performed an amazing service and many patients are alive and well because of her expertise. Marilyn More…