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Legacy Hospitals Launch Rapid Response Teams
Rapid Response Teams Help Prevent Crises for Critically Ill Patients

June 30 - When a patient’s condition begins to decline, immediate intervention is often necessary to help avoid a crisis.

Hospitals at Legacy Health System are implementing a team approach to providing immediate care for patients through its Rapid Response Team program. The team is comprised of a group of critical care experts. full story...

 
LGS - RRT

A New, More Spacious Home for the Nurse Practitioner Community Health Clinic Clinic Open House

June 10 - Staff members at the North Portland Nurse Practitioners' Clinic have a lot to smile about. The clinic recently moved to a more spacious facility that will allow better service for the community they serve.

The Nurse Practitioner Community Health Clinic has provided affordable, high-quality pediatric care to low-income, uninsured children and support services to families for 25 years. Its new space at 27 NE Killingsworth St., is nearly twice as large as its old facility.full story...

Project Seeks To Enhance Culturally Appropriate Care

Acumentra Health helps to develop relationships with adult primary care clinics in Oregon that serve Medicare patients. It is targeting clinics with a high commitment to providing culturally appropriate care to underserved and minority populations.

Through the Culture and Medicine project, Acumentra is working with adult primary care clinics to help practitioners provide culturally and linguistically responsive care, designed to increase patient compliance, outcomes and satisfaction. full story...

Virginia Garcia-Hillsboro Contributes to Nationwide Effort to Improve Health Care Access
By Dr. Chris Hill, MD, MPH, Lead Clinician at Virginia Garcia-Hillsboro

 

June 28 - Most Virginia Garcia patients live chaotic lives. They may work long hours at one or more jobs. They frequently have transportation difficulties and often are transient. While some of our patients appreciate the ability to schedule routine appointments in advance, most prefer to be seen on an as-needed basis, especially when there is an urgent problem.

Virginia Garcia–Hillsboro Clinic recently completed a one-year “Access Improvement” distance-learning collaborative led by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). full story. . .

Better Together: Members, Providers and CareOregon Teaming for Positive Outcomes
By Jeanie Lunsford, Communications Manager, CareOregon
Tucker triplets June 2- When you meet Zachary, Penelope and Sigourney Tucker, you are instantly struck by how happy and healthy these adorable 18-month-olds’ are. These triplets don’t have a care in the world. And that’s the way their parents Debbie Deles-Dernier, 38, and Tom Tucker, 42, like it.

But for Debbie and Tom, things haven’t always gone so smoothly. full story...
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