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Virginia Garcia receives federal grant for EHI...A grant of $1.1 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will allow Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center to complete its transition to electronic health information records. The federal “stimulus” funds will help pay for the transition at Virginia Garcia’s Cornelius and McMinnville clinics, the last of five to switch from paper records. The grant is part of $825 million being spent nationwide for renovation, repair and new construction. $14.6 million is being contributed to Oregon community health centers. Virginia Garcia’s Cornelius clinic will make the change to electronic health records this fall; McMinnville will change over early next year. See full story in the McMinnville News-Register. Extended hours available at Oregon City Primary Care ClinicClackamas County’s Primary Care Clinic in Oregon City has expanded its evening hours. The service increase was made possible by a federal stimulus grant. The clinic, 1425 Beavercreek Road, now runs Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Clackamas County officials also wants patients to know that the facility will continue to be open for another two years. Last year, the county announced the closure of primary care facilities in Mollala and Sandy by the end of 2008 and the Oregon City clinic by the end of 2011. Multnomah County develops assessment tool for lead exposure Tool kit is available as a free download Multnomah County Environmental Health Department has posted online its Streamlined Childhood Lead Screening: A Toolkit for Busy Clinics. The department developed the tool kit following a 2004 study of Oregon medical providers that showed that only half of providers treating children routinely assess lead exposure risk in their pediatric patients. The most frequently reported reason for not assessing risk was not having access to a clinic system that supports the risk assessment (VanArsdale and Leiker: Childhood Lead Screening in Oregon, 2004). The toolkit is intended to help providers adopt or improve their practice in three preventive measures:
The tool kit is available for download here. |
...and Jackson County’s Community Health Center does, tooA large portion of a $600,945 federal stimulus grant will be used to integrate electronic health records at Community Health Center’s clinics in Ashland, Medford and White City. The remaining funds will help expand the White City clinic. Because of the economy, Community Health Center has seen a steady increase in the number of uninsured patients it is serving. The economy has also been tough on donations. Community Health Center gets about 40 percent of its budget from public and private contributions. For more about Community Health Center, visit its web site or read the full story in the Ashland Daily Tidings.Welcome new providers
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