PERU — The Women’s Health Care Center (WHCC) at Illinois Valley Community Hospital has added another certified nurse midwife to its staff.

Dana Hoffman, CNM, will join the WHCC staff in January. She is coming to IVCH from Crusader Community Health, a network of healthcare clinics in the Rockford area. She had previously worked for Women’s Healthcare Partners of Illinois, which has offices in Ottawa, Marseilles and Streator.

Before becoming a midwife, Hoffman was a registered nurse in the labor and delivery department at KSB Hospital in Dixon, a post she took after working as a nurse in KSB’s OB/GYN clinic for six years.

Hoffman’s midwifery master’s degree is from the University of Illinois-Chicago. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing at Northern Illinois University.

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