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SIOUX CENTER – Many families take buying baby necessities such as diapers, baby wipes and pacifiers for granted. Sioux Center Middle School seventh-graders Rachel Leusink, Annika Jahn and Tessa Vonk were among the students who assembled Baby Bundles for Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. But some families struggle to afford these items. A group of seventh-graders at Sioux Center Middle School took it upon themselves to help out these families as their May Term project. They collected donations of various baby items and packed 20 Baby Bundles full of the necessary items. They donated the bags to Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center to provide to moms who have a special need for the items after the birth of their baby. Seventh-grade teacher Jill Harskamp said it has been fun watching the students work as a group and interact with adults in the community on the project. “They are really loving the opportunity to do something beyond themselves and beyond our class...

SIOUX CENTER – Truckers now have another option when it comes to getting their Department of Transportation medical exam completed. Promise Community Health Center of Sioux Center is offering DOT physicals as a new service. Nurse practitioner Roleen Walgenbach will offer DOT physicals as a new service for Promise Community Health Center. Roleen Walgenbach – who will begin serving at Promise as a part-time nurse practitioner on Friday, May 19, and who is a certified medical examiner for commercial motor vehicle drivers – will provide the service 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on the first and third Fridays of each month. In addition, she will offer the service any other times she is seeing patients at Promise. To make an appointment, call Promise at 712-722-1700. All CMV drivers must have a DOT physical examination completed by a licenced medical examiner who is listed on the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration National Registry to obtain a commercial driver’s license (CDL). The DOT medical ex...

SIOUX CENTER – Roleen Walgenbach has a passion for reaching out to the medically underserved in a community health setting. She has dedicated her career to it. Walgenbach has cared for patients for over three decades on the Leech Lake Reservation in rural northern Minnesota – first as a public health nurse and later as a nurse practitioner. During that time, she has served for Leech Lake Reservation Health Division and Cass Lake Indian Hospital. She has experience in both in the clinical and administrative settings. Roleen Walgenbach will begin seeing patients at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center as a part-time nurse practitioner on Friday, May 19. In addition, she will provide Department of Transportation physicals for commercial motor vehicle drivers as a new service offered by Promise to the community. So, Walgenbach will fit right in as she begins her service at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center as a part-time nurse practitioner. She will fill in when P...

SIOUX CENTER – Thanks to many generous donors, Promise Community Health Center has reached the fundraising goal for its 2016-17 capital campaign project. As a result, a major exterior renovation project will commence soon. And, soon, the deteriorating, yellow, steel exterior of the former bowling alley building in downtown Sioux Center will fade into a memory of the past and will be replaced with a much more inviting – and modern – brick and EIFS finish. This is an artist's rendering of what Promise Community Health Center's building will look like in downtown Sioux Center following completion of its exterior renovation project. Construction is expected to start this month, thanks to donations given by businesses and individuals during a successful capital campaign. “Improving the exterior of the building for Promise is an exciting project for many reasons, but most of all, I believe it says to the community that the services and resources of a federally qualified health cente...

SIOUX CENTER – Promise Community Health Center of Sioux Center will replace one of its aging dental chairs, thanks to a $2,500 grant from the Sioux Center Community Foundation . The grant, which comes from the foundation’s new Generations Community Endowment Fund , was awarded during the Sioux Center Spirit of Community celebration on Thursday, April 27, at Terrace View Event Center. Promise was among 12 local, nonprofit organizations that received a total of $26,000 in grant funding. Dr. Kenneth Tjeerdsma, dentist and dental director for Promise Community Health Center of Sioux Center, and dental assistant Gabbie Lynch see a patient in a new dental chair purchased and installed during 2016. A $2,500 grant awarded Thursday, April 27, by Sioux Center's Generations Community Endowment Fund will go toward replacement of a second dental chair unit. The grant will cover about 15 percent of the cost to purchase a new dental chair and associated accessories for one of Promise’s three ora...