For over four years, Cathy Fliris, Family Nurse Practitioner, has provided medical care to the citizens of Niobrara County and those passing through Lusk. Originally from Seattle, Washington, she headed to Alaska to work for the National Health Service Corps in a native Alaskan village on the Yukon River. For 24 years, she worked as an RN in a small hospital and assisted living home, had her own custom arctic clothing business, fished for salmon in the summer, ran a dog mushing tour business with her husband of 25 years, Bill, and raised two sons, Brendan and Jesse. After graduating from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing, based in Hyden, Kentucky, she moved to Lusk with another National Health Service Corps scholarship. Both she and her husband love Wyoming, particularly the people, roads, running water, and gas heat! Cathy is currently working on her Doctorate of Nursing Practice through the Rocky Mountain University of Health Sciences in Provo, Utah, which will enhance her health care providing skills.

Dr. Hoskins is Board Certified in family medicine and has been exclusively practicing family and emergency medicine in Wyoming, Colorado, Califorina, and Illinois over the past 30 years. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians and a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Dr. Hoskins has cared for many of the residents of Niobrara County in his previous role as Medical Director of Emergency Services at MHCC in Douglas as well as working part time since Feb. of 2008 at NHLC.

NHLC is excited to have Dr. Hoskins join our team and he looks forward to being able to provide those same services to old friends closer to home.

Bob Brummond, born in Nebraska and raised in Iowa, received his advanced education at Montana State University in Bozeman and Billings. After earlier careers in accounting and ranching, he has spent the last eight years in hospital administration, being the CEO of two hospitals. He and his wife, Joannie, a pharmacy tech, enjoy life in rural Lusk, Wyoming and work with employees of the hospital and members of the community in bringing quality healthcare to our rural population.