VALERIE MILLERICK

Valerie Millerick grew up in Yonkers, New York and is a graduate of Yonkers High School. Encouraged by her father, she enrolled in nursing school at Misericordia in the Bronx (now known as Our Lady of Mercy), where she graduated with honors to become a Registered Nurse.

Throughout the 70’s, Millerick worked at St. Francis Hospital in Miami Beach, Florida, on the medical/surgical floor. While at St. Francis, Valerie underwent training in the hospitals newly formed dialysis ward. Hemodialysis was still in its infancy at the time and Valerie was excited to be part of this new life-saving therapy.

Valerie returned to New York in 1982 to become the head nurse of the Adolescent Dialysis Unit at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers. It was during this period that Millerick was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Determined not to leave the profession she had come to love, Valerie left St. Joseph to become Director of Nursing for Hemostat, a California-based company that provided mobile dialysis services. By leaving behind the stress of daily floor shifts to work one-on-one with her patients, Valerie was successfully able to extend the life of her career.

In 1991, Valerie left Hemostat to launch Renal Care Registered Nursing Services. Her Nanuet, New York-based company now provides acute mobile dialysis and therapeutic plasma exchange services to many of the hospitals in the Metro New York area. With her son, Jim DeMaria, who serves as Vice President of Operations, Valerie has grown Renal Care into the Northeast's leading provider of hemodialysis services.