Karen Zehr-Miller, MSW,LCSW

About Karen

Karen Zehr-Miller, MSW, LCSW, is an Indiana Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than three decades of diverse experience, currently serving in the Behavioral Health Department at Daviess Community Hospital. Specializing in nursing home services, she provides comprehensive mental health evaluations and treatments for residents, addressing the unique emotional and psychological needs of seniors.

Karen's extensive career includes dedicated service in hospice care, offering compassionate support to terminally ill patients and their families. She has significant experience in geriatric behavioral health, foster care support, and the supervision and training of social workers in licensed foster care settings. Her roles have encompassed direct care and administrative oversight, including managing a senior rest home and coordinating mental health services across multiple facilities and in patients' homes.

Her expertise spans bereavement counseling, family counseling, discharge planning, counselor training, and in-home care support. Karen is known for her exceptional people skills, relationship-building abilities, and effective communication. 

Karen earned her Master of Social Work with a concentration in planning and management and a specialization in family and child welfare from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She holds a Bachelor of Social Work from Indiana University in Bloomington.

Prior to her current role at Daviess Community Hospital, Karen worked as a medical social worker with in Jasper, assisting families with end-of-life planning and emotional support. She also served nearly three decades as a program manager, where she supervised foster care social workers and trained foster parents for children with special needs.

Beyond her professional responsibilities, Karen has been an active animal advocate, serving on the Board of Directors for PAWS Animal Shelter in Petersburg, Indiana, since 2001.