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BCHC Growing in size and Numbers
Boone County Health Center is not just growing in size with the addition of a new patient care wing but also in numbers. The Health Center is pleased to welcome three new staff members to the organization. Joining the staff is Kelli Frey, PA-C, Paulette Clark, RN, CRNA and Valerie Slizoski, Clinical Social Worker. All three new staff members began working at the Health Center and it medical clinics in January.
Kelli Frey, a native of Albion, will work with BCHC’s physicians in the treatment and prevention of illness and disease. She has completed clinical rotations in surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, orthopedics, endocrinology, emergency medicine, cardiology and multiple family medical rotations. Although Frey will hub out of the Albion Medical Clinic, she will see patients in all four of the Health Center’s clinics on a rotating basis. Frey is a certified physician assistant. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Nebraska-Omaha and with a Masters in Science degree in the Physician Assistant program from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2009. Frey is a graduate of Boone Central schools. Her parents are Jim and Jolene Frey of Albion. She currently lives in Spalding.
Paulette Clark, RN, is a Certified Registered 
Nurse Anesthetist with over twenty five years of experience. Clark received her nursing degree from Lincoln General School of Nursing and her CRNA degree from Creighton University in 1983. She has provided comprehensive anesthetist services in orthopedic, general surgery, obstetrical, ophthalmic as well as administering pain management for chronic conditions. Previously to joining Boone County Health Center, she worked at Nebraska Orthopedic in Omaha, Fall City Hospital and Columbus Community Hospital. Paulette and her husband, Jim, have recently relocated to Albion.
Valorie Slizoski a clinical social worker will join the Health Center staff for three days a week beginning in late January. Val has been a social worker for nineteen years most recently with Faith Regional Health Services in Norfolk. Slizoski received a Bachelor of Science in Social work from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1991.
As a social worker, Slizoski will assist both inpatients and outpatients in accessing needed information and resources including available financial assistance for healthcare and medicine, grief resources and in meeting extended and psychosocial needs of patients. Val has worked extensively with new families who may need extra help in adjusting to the demands of a newborn or in the loss of a child.
Val and her husband, Steve, are the parents of six children.