Community Health Center will host an open house on Thursday, Feb. 16, from 3-6p.m. for the new medical clinic in Butte Falls. The open house will feature health center tours and refreshments plus free blood pressure screenings and flu shots for community members. Children are invited to bring their favorite stuffed animal or doll for…
Grant to provide medical care via tele-med to Butte Falls and Prospect
July 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Community Health Center will receive $494,000 and La Clinica Del Valle will receive $456,890, according to an announcement by Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden. The two agencies are included in an award by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of over $4 million to 12 school-based health centers across Oregon.“Early, accessible…
Community Health Center receives $85,000 grant for UR dental work
July 5, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Community Health Center is the recipient of an $85,000 grant from the Reed and Carolee Walker Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation. The grant is to provide dental screening, fluoride varnishes, case management and oral hygiene education to children grades K through 8 who are enrolled in the Eagle Point, Prospect and Butte Falls School…
Program benefits nurse and health clinic
April 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
“ (It’s) like being on a mission in your own back yard,” said Nurse Practitioner Susan Mix. “You don’t have go abroad.” Mix was referring to her position with the Community Health Center in White City where she is employed as a member of the National Health Service Corps (NHSC). The Corps is a program…
EPHS Health Center opens
February 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The new EPHS Community Health Center will hold an open house Wednesday, Feb. 15, from 3-7 p.m. Look for directions at the front of the high school. The Center is a combined effort of District 9 and Community Health Center.
School-based Health Center open house Feb. 15 at EPHS
February 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Community Health Center is opening the School-Based Health Center (SBHC) at Eagle Point High School. The community is invited to learn more about the valuable and cost-effective medical care available to Eagle Point High School students at the School-Based Health Center by attending an Open House on Tuesday, Feb. 15, from 3 to 7p.m. at…
Local artists featured at Art De Jour
January 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Butte Falls resident Ruthanne Bray is known to many as a 10-year board member of the Community Health Center, as a volunteer in her community, and as a mother, but her artistic ability seems to have been a best kept secret. While a native Oregonian, she and her family saw a lot of the country…
Community Health Center receives Carpenter Foundation Grant
January 3, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Community Health Center is the recipient of a $12,000 grant from the Carpenter Foundation to provide health care services to newly unemployed and uninsured Jackson County residents. “The recession continues to make life difficult for families in Jackson County,” said Community Health Center Executive Director Peg Crowley. “We are experiencing a significant increase in requests…
D9 board leaders elected on 3-2 split
July 14, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The first order of business at the July 8 board of directors meeting was administering the oath of office to Mark Bateman and Jim Mannenbach. A presentation for a wrestling room-multi purporse room for White Mountain Middle School was made by WMMS P.E. teacher, Tony Stormberg. He said Club West will donate $60,000 toward it…
Recovery Act includes infrastructure funds for WC Community Health
July 7, 2009 by Leave a Comment
First Lady Michelle Obama announced the release of $14,622,689 in grants on Monday to community health centers in Oregon. Her announcement was followed on Tuesday by an announcement by Rep. Ron Wyden and Senator Jeff Merkley. The grants will help address immediate and pressing health center facility and equipment needs and increase access to health…
