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SIOUX CENTER – Promise Community Health Center of Sioux Center announces the hiring of Faith Schiltz as a family practice nurse practitioner. She will begin seeing patients on Monday, July 30. Faith Schiltz, ARNP, looks forward to joining the medical provider team at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center as a nurse practitioner. She will begin seeing patients at the health center on Monday, July 30. Schiltz, an advanced registered nurse practitioner (ARNP), will complete Promise’s medical provider team. Beth Strub, who served as a nurse practitioner at Promise since August 2008, is moving on to provide women’s health at Iowa City VA Health Care System. Her last day is Friday, June 29. Schiltz will be a familiar face to many of Promise’s patients because she served a preceptorship at Promise for a few months in 2016. She is eager to return. “I experienced firsthand the passion of Promise supporters and staff, as well as witnessed their commitment to removing health-care barri

SIOUX CENTER – Beth Strub has offered compassionate care to patients as a nurse practitioner at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center for nearly 10 years. Beth Strub has been serving as a nurse practitioner at Promise Community Health Center nearly since it opened 10 years ago. She is saying farewell as she moves to provide women's health for the Iowa City VA Health Care System. Her last day is Friday. She started on a part-time basis at Promise in August 2008 – just a month after Promise opened its doors – to provide women’s health services and to give the original full-time provider a day off every week. A few months later, she went full time and now is the longest-tenured provider at the health center. Therefore, it is with great sadness that Promise staff and patients are bidding farewell to Strub as she moves on to provide women’s health and gynecology services for the Iowa City VA Health Care System. Her last day is this Friday, June 29. Strub always will have fond

SIOUX CENTER – Leonardo “Leo” Marquez, an immigrant from Mexico, has been pouring his heart and soul into his dream of one day becoming a dentist in the United States. And Promise Community Health Center again will play an important role as he takes the next steps in his career quest. Leo, who previously served at Promise from August 2016-May 2017, has returned to the health center to work as a dental assistant/interpreter as he makes the next preparations for applying to dental schools. Leo Marquez is happy to be back serving as a dental assistant/interpreter at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center while he continues to pursue his career dream of becoming a dentist in the United States someday. He’s happy to be back at Promise. “It’s great. It’s great because it was the place where I had the opportunity to be in the dental field,” Leo said, noting he didn’t have a lot of experience when he first started. “Promise was my opportunity to integrate into how dental care works i

SIOUX CENTER – Michelle (Palafox) van Beek was interested in serving at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center because of its “mission to serve.” She will play a big role in that mission as Promise’s behavioral health coordinator/interpreter. Michelle van Beek has assumed the role of behavioral health coordinator/interpreter at Promise Community Health Center. He looks forward to helping people in such an important aspect of their overall health. “I am very excited to be a part of Promise,” Michelle said. “Their mission to provide accessible care to the community is inspiring, and I wanted to be a part of that.” Michelle grew up in Rock Valley and graduated from Rock Valley High School in 2014. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Spanish translation and interpreting from Northwestern College in Orange City in December 2017 and holds National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters in Spanish. Before starting at Promise, she served as an interpreter and translator at Heg

SIOUX CENTER – Jo Thyr is eager to transition into behavioral health counseling at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center after serving as a medical social worker for most of her career. She sees it as a natural progression. It’s also a natural progression for Promise as the health center moves from providing part-time behavioral/mental health services on a contractual basis with partner organizations to having its own full-time behavioral health therapist on staff. In doing so, Promise also will expand into offering substance abuse services as Jo becomes certified in that area – with a particular focus of addressing people’s addiction to opioids, which are drugs used to reduce pain. Jo Thyr, a licensed master social worker (LMSW), looks forward to walking alongside people as they go through difficult situations in their lives as the behavioral health therapist at Promise Community Health Center in Sioux Center. She will begin seeing patients at the health center on a full-ti