Houser new FNP at PC Hospital

The Phillips County Hospital and Family Health Clinic (PCHHC) welcomed it’s newest Health Care Provider on Monday, October 1.

Family Nurse Practitioner Elke Houser and her husband Jim have moved from Helena to Malta to fill one of two vacancies left at PCHHC. Houser is originally from a small ranching community in California similar in size to Malta.

“Our house bordered grazing lands. We had rodeo horses, rodeo stock, beef cattle, and everything,” Houser said. “I didn’t grow up in the ranching industry, but right next to it, literally. The cows would get out and I remember waking...