Sandra Rodriguez returns to Promise CHC as medical assistant


SIOUX CENTER � Sandra Rodriguez is happy to to back at Promise Community Health Center because she �absolutely loved� the family environment.

Sandra has returned to serve as a medical assistant/interpreter at the health center.

Sandra Rodriguez has returned to Promise
Community Health Center to serve as a
medical assistant and interpreter.
She hopes to bring �a helping hand� to her role.

�I love helping people whether it be my co-workers or people that I don�t know. I am here to help,� she said.

Sandra was born in Grand Island, NE, and moved several times throughout her childhood until moving to Orange City. She graduated from MOC-Floyd Valley High School in 2013.

She served as a medical assistant/interpreter at Promise, 2015-16, and then worked as an assistant manager at Pizza Hut in Sioux Center, 2016-18, before returning to Promise.

Promise serves everyone, whether they have health insurance or not, but Sandra appreciates the fact that the health center has a particular focus on reaching out to the underserved.

�Ever since I was in high school, I knew I wanted to be able to help people in any way I could,� she said. �What better way to help than to help the underserved or people that only speak Spanish understand what their doctor is saying?"


MORE ABOUT SANDRA:
Sandra Rodriguez lives in Orange City. Her significant other is Arturo Tapia. They have a daughter, Nathalie, nearly 4, and a son, Uriel, 1. In her spare time, Sandra enjoys watching movies, baking, swimming and shopping.

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