Danelle Franzen

Danelle Franzen, MBA, MLS (ASCP), leads the provider network, a division of Great Plains Health that creates a unified physician group working together to ensure that quality healthcare is available and accessible throughout the North Platte region. Before assuming this position in 2019, Franzen served as the senior director of ancillary services for six years. In that role, Franzen was responsible for the laboratory, rehab services, home health and hospice, cardiopulmonary services, clinical nutrition and pharmacy.

She began her healthcare career as a medical laboratory technician at Great Plains Health and has had several positions of increasing responsibility in laboratory and management. During her tenure, she was instrumental in the implementation of automated instrumentation to improve productivity and efficiency within the Great Plains Health Laboratory.

Franzen earned a master's degree in business administration from Bellevue University in Bellevue, Nebraska. She earned a bachelor's degree in clinical laboratory science from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and an associate's degree from Mid-Plains Community College in North Platte.