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SIOUX CENTER – Every Monday and Friday, a Zestos delivery person drops off a box of bread and buns at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. The bakery items, which are placed on a small table in the entryway of the health center, are free for the taking for patients. Zestos, a ministry based in Alton, delivers bread and buns to Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center on Mondays and Fridays. The bakery items are free for the taking for patients in the entryway. By the end of the day, the items usually are gone. “We’re so thankful to Zestos for partnering with Promise in this way,” said Derrick Vander Waal, public relations officer for Promise. “Promise strives to offer holistic care for our patients and to help them out in any way that we can, so this is just another small way that we can do that. Nutrition is an important aspect of health.” In February, representatives from Promise were visiting Primary Health Care in Des Moines and noticed that it had a table full

SIOUX CENTER – Rebecca Baatz was attracted to Promise Community Health Center because she saw it as an organization with “a strong passion and wonderful mission.” Now, she will play a key role in helping Promise advance its mission. Rebecca Baatz is excited to help Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center advance its mission in her new executive assistant role. Baatz recently assumed the position of executive assistant at Promise. “I feel a genuine warmth and passionate spirit of all striving toward a common goal of bringing out the best in people,” she said. Baatz grew up in Hull and graduated from Boyden-Hull High School in 1999. She earned a double-major in early childhood and elementary education from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls in 2003. She then served as the director and preschool teacher at Tots on Ten child-care center in Paullina for a year and worked as a scheduler and child-care assistant at Early Childhood Center in Sioux Center for 10 years. For

SIOUX CENTER – Nursing runs in Mylicah Cave’s family. Her grandmother was a nurse, and she has numerous aunts and cousins who are nurses, so Cave went into the nursing field, too. Mylicah Cave has assumed the position of clinic nurse at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. She has served as a nurse in a variety of settings throughout the years and now is happy to  be serving patients at a community health center. She has served patients for the past decade and a half and recently assumed her new role of clinic nurse at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. “I like the hands-on part of nursing – of being able to minister to the whole person,” she said. Cave grew up in Sergeant Bluff and graduated from high school there in 1998. She later went on to Western Iowa Technical Community College in Sioux City, where she earned her licensed practical nurse degree in 2005 and her registered nurse degree in 2008. She has served in various nursing-type roles throughout the

SIOUX CENTER – Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center will give a $10 grocery gift card to every eligible person who completes a home stool test for colorectal cancer during National Colon Cancer Awareness Month in March. The health center places that much importance on people being screening. Anyone who is between the ages of 50-75 and who has not had a colonoscopy in the last 10 years or has not completed a fecal immunochemical test (FIT) in the last 12 months will be eligible to receive the gift card to Fareway or Hy-Vee. All they have to do is receive a FIT kit from Promise, complete the test and mail it back in during March. Promise Community Health Center staff dressed up for Dress in Blue Day  on Friday, March 3, to increase awareness about colorectal cancer as part of National Colon Cancer Awareness Month. Promise encourages people ages 50-75 to complete a home FIT screening  to prevent or catch colorectal cancer in its early stages. Colorectal cancer, which is cancer

SIOUX CENTER – Stefanie Ayala desires to serve the people who live in the community where she grew up in. And that’s why she’s excited about her new role as a medical assistant/interpreter at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. Stefanie Ayala has assumed her position as a medical assistant/interpreter at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. She hopes her positive personality will help patients have a great experience at the health center. “I believe it’s so crucial that the people in this community feel confident and welcome when they come to our health center, especially our Spanish-speaking community members,” Stefanie said. “I can imagine I would be reluctant to seek health care if I felt like I couldn’t communicate with my health-care professional.” Stefanie lived in Hull as a child and graduated from Sioux Center High School in 2008. A few years later, she went on to Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City, where she earned an associate’s degree