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February 2005 PDF

Lower
Columbia
BUSINESS
Yo ur Mo n t hl y Co a s t al B u s i ne s s - t o - B us i n es s N e ws Ma g az i ne
VOLUME 15 #2
February
2005
ISSN 1056-7070
Healthcare Focus
The New Look of H e a l t h c a re: Not your Daddy’s Hospitals
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Contents
Issue Focus Features
2 Chat with the Chiefs
4 New Faces in Healthcare
12 Area Clinics List
Is su e Focus
Chat with the Chiefs
An annual update with the hospital chief off i c e r s
14 Medix Rolls into Metro
18 Providers by Specialty
20 Dental In Ocean Park
24 Tongue Point Partners
25 NAMI
28 CCC Nursing Program
29 Providence Rehab Home
30 Hospital Info Chart
New Business/Updates
8 Muddy Waters/Suitemate
Bill Sexton photo provided by Providence Seaside
Regular Departments
ill
Sexton,
of
Providence Seaside
Hospital has recently been installed as
the president-elect of the National
Rural Health Association. He presented us with the following article as his
16 Business Calendar
The next Issue of Lower
Columbia BUSINESS
will include our focus on
Art in Business
plus the special section,
The RETAIL Corner
B
update. We have edited his comments
for space we had available.
“The services and programs at
the North Coast Service Area operations of Providence Health System
continue to grow and we are making
room for new things to come. This
year we completed finishing work on
the first floor of the Providence North
Coast Clinic to provide additional
space for our many visiting physician
specialists at PNCC. And early in 2005
we moved our growing rehabilitation
departments (occupational therapy,
physical therapy, etc.) and home
health staff to a larger, off-campus site
located on Hwy101 North in Gearhart.
(See the story on page 29.)
During the summer, increased
volumes in the Emergency DepartSee Chiefs, continued on page 7.
Ocean Beach Hospital
Foundation
(Est. 2004)
Lower Columbia
BUSINESS
Jack and Lesle Palmeri
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Marketing Communication
P. O. Box 1088 Seaside, OR 97138
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[email protected]
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The Foundation’s first fundraising project, will be to purchase a new
anesthesia machine for our surgery department. We have already
raised $10,000 toward this vital upgrade of our
existing equipment which will have a total cost of $40,000.
Events will be planned throughout the year.
Feel free to call us to add your support to this great cause!
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Lower Columbia BUSINESS February 2005
The large front cover photo, submitted by
Columbia Memorial Hospital, shows the
Healing Garden at Columbia Memorial
Hospital in Astoria. It is just part of the overall transformation of healthcare facilities to
become more “homelike.” In addition to the
Healing Garden, Columbia Memorial has
added a baby grand piano with volunteer
players, softening decor in the patient rooms
and a family-style “living room” where
patients and their family make take their
meals. For more details, see Terry Finklein’s
“Chat with the Chiefs” on page 22. The
small inset photo, taken by Lesle Palmeri,
shows the new “strip mall” Gearhart location for Providence Seaside. See the story on
page 29.
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©2004. The publishers are Jack & Lesle Palmeri.
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Editor’s Note
Healthcare Changes, New Faces
Hospitals in transition, New Providers at the Coast
By Lesle Palmeri, Walker & Company Marketing Communication
I
know that everyone is busy. Small
business owners,
educators, medical
providers, and those working in government offices all seem to be under
the gun these days. That is why it is so
important to me to thank those individuals who take time out of their
busy lives to help us. Each and every
month we are greeted with enthusiasm and grace and helped to get out
an issue of the magazine that I hope
our readers will enjoy. It seems you do
enjoy it and we never tire of hearing
that from you.
I hope this month is just as
pleasant an experience. Here you will
find updates from the chief officers of
each of our major area hospitals as
well as profiles of twenty new folks
working to make our healthcare system a better one. You will get a chal-
lenge from Nancy Pyburn, director of
the Tongue Point Job Corps Center in
Astoria to continue building bridges
in the county and to look for more.
There is a chart of area clinics,
vital stats on the hospitals and a listing of medical providers by specialty.
You will find profiles of organizations
around our area striving to make the
healthcare delivery system better,
from the new dental services soon to
be available in Ocean Park, to the new
owner of Medix Ambulance Service,
the classes and support offered by the
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill,
and the new nursing program space at
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Is su e Focus
New Faces in Healthcare
A brief bio on new healthcare providers in our re g i o n
E
ach
year
new
providers arrive in
our area. We have
tried to list them all
here for you. In addition, this year we
have a number of providers who will
be practicing in more than one area.
Therefore we have listed them alphabetically instead of by county or by
hospital. We apologize if we have
missed anyone. You will find telephone numbers for the providers listed by specialty on page 18. LCB
Dr. Albert Fabiano
Dr. Fabiano was born in
Argentina. His parents are Italian and
migrated to the U.S. in 1975, for economic reasons. “Before I was a teenager,” he said, “ I always liked the notion
of being a physician. When I was a little kid a friend of my father’s lived
across the street... a pediatrician that
did house calls. He would come and
see me and I would tell him I wanted
to be a physician. He’d say, ‘Don’t do
it. It’s a lot of work.’ I didn’t listen. He
was accurate. It is a lot of work, but I
like it.”
Along with English, Dr.
Fabiano speaks Spanish and Italian.
He attended undergraduate schools in
New Jersey, and completed medical
school at Spartan Health Sciences
University in Saint Lucia, West Indies.
He spent his residency at Muhlenberg
Regional Medical Center in Plainfield,
New Jersey, finishing in 2001. He is
licensed in Internal Medicine by
Washington state.
“We moved here from New
Jersey in April. We were looking for a
place to migrate. We lived in the city
for such a long time. My wife was
stressed out by the city. I wasn’t considering the place until I came here,
saw the hospital, and how much
money they are putting into it...new
equipment. I went back and reported
to the boss - my wife. I came back with
her and we made a decision. We are
very happy here. We live by the beach.
It is a nice atmosphere and I think I am
the only internist here (at Ocean Beach
Hospital), the only internal physician.
All the others are family practice or
nurse practitioners, etc.”
Debra Hall, MACCC-SLP
“I’m a transplant from
Alaska,“ Debra Hall began. “I lived
t h e re five years, working for
P rovidence in Anchorage.” She has
been a speech pathologist for six
years. She earned her bachelor’s
degree in speech and hearing sciences
from the University of Colorado at
Boulder, after becoming a certified
massage therapist in 1982. She worked
for 15 years as a massage therapist in
the Denver area. She went on to earn
her master ’s degree in speech-lan-
Dr. Albert Fabiano Debra Hall, MACCC-SLP
guage pathology from the University
of Northern Colorado. “I decided to
go back for my masters for more challenging work,” she said. “ I like to
work with people and post-stro k e
work....doing something different in
healthcare. I had co-workers who were
speech pathologists and decided to go
into that. I went from the body to the
brain. Now I work with people with
n e u rological defects, like stroke or
brain injury. I also have experience
with pediatrics, work with swallowing
and eating issues.”
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Jody Haskin
Born and raised in Portland,
Oregon, Jody Haskin is the new manager of patient financial services for
Ocean Beach Hospital. She is responsible for billing for the hospital and
making sure they are in compliance.
“It has been good for the hospital,” she
said. “I was in banking for 20 years in
Portland. I moved out here five years
ago and have been with the hospital
for three and a half years. I started
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Jo Ann Henry
with the department in July 2001.”
Beyond billing, Jody oversee’s the
admitting department and patient registration. She started her new job as
manager of patient financial services
in August, 2004.
Jo Ann Henry
Jo Ann is the contract denial
manager for Ocean Beach Hospital. In
her position she goes over contracts
with the insurance carriers to determine compliance. She finds out what
the hospital needs and negotiates
what is needed. “This is a brand new
job,” she said. In addition, when
insurance carriers don’t pay the hospital’s claim, then Jo Ann’s job is to find
out why and remedy the situation.
“We then re-bill it out,” she said. “It
takes all of us from all departments to
get it resolved. It has brought attention
to all of the areas of the hospital that
may need improvement. You also realize what everybody does in their job.
We sit together and resolve issues. It
has been an education.” Jo Ann was
born in Huntington Park, California
and raised in Seattle, Washington. She
came to the Peninsula six years ago
and began work in the hospital’s
billing department.
Tammie Jeffries
Tammie is the patient advocate for Ocean Beach Hospital. She
was born in Longview, Washington
but grew up in Rainier, Oregon. She
worked for ten years in customer service at a bank in Longview then for a
medical group in Portland. “That got
me into the medical field,” she said.
One year ago she decided to become a
patient advocate and began her work
at the hospital on March 1, 2004. “Here
I take in all the concerns and questions
of the patients and families. If they
Tammie Jeffries
Brett Johnson, MD
need help finding transportation - that
is one of the hardest things -- how to
get home in the safest way - I talk with
the patients daily to see if there is anything I can help them with. A small
question may seem like a big question
to them, but they don’t want to bother
a nurse with it. Since I have been
working here concerns have been
down 50% - That is because I am here
to talk with them right away.”
Brett Johnson, MD
The
Tillamook
County
General Hospital welcomes Bre t t
Johnson
to
the
Emergency
Department staff. Dr. Johnson graduated from Pacific Lutheran University
in Tacoma, Washington with a major
in Chinese and Biology. He completed
medical school at OHSU and residency at Orlando Regional Hospital, in
Florida. His wife, Helen, is a physician assistant. He states, “I have
always wanted to practice in a rural
setting and I am very excited to be
here.”
Sandy Kosik, PA-C
Sandy began working with
Coastal Family Health Center in
Astoria during November, 2002. She
was born in Canada, but grew up in
Eugene, Oregon. She lived in Portland
before moving to the coast three years
ago. She had wanted to switch to
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healthcare after spending most of her
career in education. She has been a
health administrator for almost 20
years. She went back to school, graduating with a masters of science degree
in physician assistant studies fro m
Pacific University in 2002 Prior to that
she had worked as a health educator, a
school administrator, a health science
technology instructor, a certified nursing assistant and a certified hospital
technician. She has worked in emergency medicine, mental health,
surgery and pubic health.
Recently, she began working
certain days of the week at the
Rinehart Clinic in Wheeler. “I am in
the National Health Service Corp
(http://nhsc.bhpr.hrsa.gov)
Loan
Repayment Program,” she said,
“where you work in a rural area for a
federally-designated rural health clinic to help get that loan repaid. That is
how I started working with the
Coastal Family Health Center. I
recently learned that Rinehart was
looking for a PA and they were both
willing to split me -- 50-50. That was
great, since I live in Manzanita. After
July my service obligation to the government will be up. Then all of my
practice time will be a the Rinehart
Clinic beginning in August.”
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New Faces, continued from page 5.
Ramchander
Madhvararapu, MD
Jay McDonnell, MD
David Leibel, DO
Dr. Leibel grew up in
Youngstown, Ohio and Los Angeles,
California. “When I was a little kid my
father was a family practice doctor . I
went to his alma matter, he participated in my graduation....he anointed
me.” Dr. Leibel has practiced in
Stockton,
California
for
15
years...”watched it grow from 88 thousand to more than 120 thousand.” too big He has five children and
moved with his family up to
Pendleton, Oregon - too small. “My
wife wanted to move and I have
always wanted to live near the ocean.
Roger Miller, MD
Daniella Mittan, MD
I wanted to retire here and this opportunity was too much to pass by. I came
for the geography. I started in August,
2004 and like it very much. The area
needed a urologist...Dr. Deuker is trying to retire.... and there is a lot of
urology here. Some of the patients
have to go to a major center in
Portland, but most can be handled
here. That is why I have been successful. My wife is my office manager and
she makes sure everything works
smoothly.” Dr. Leibel graduated medical school at Des Moines University
Osteopathic Medical Center, interned
at Normandy Osteopathic Hospital
Susan Nicola
Jim Pister, MD
and did his residency at the University
of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey.
He is certified by the American Board
of Osteopathic Surgery in Uro l o g y. He
has special interests in urinary incontinence and urologic oncology.
Ramchander Madhvararapu, MD
Called Dr. Ram (pronounced
ROM) for short, he has been interested
in becoming a doctor since childhood.
He was born in India. “I grew up in a
farming village,” he said, “and I
remember vividly something that
happened. A chicken was attacked by
a cat and its leg was severed. I was
probably ten or twelve years old at the
time. Instead of taking it to the vet, I
took it into the house and got a needle
and thread. I sutured the wound and
in a week or two it got better. Instead
of veterinary medicine, however, my
interest was human health. I have
practiced for 25 years, initially as a
general practitioner. All the parents
used to prefer bringing their children
to me, even though I was not specialized. Sixty percent of my patients were
children....I felt I needed more education.” Dr. Ram attended medical
school at Kakatiya Medical College in
Waragal, India. He moved to Ireland
where he transitioned into pediatric
care. He earned his diploma in child
health, specializing in neonatology.
He did his post graduate work in the
United kingdom, earning his MRCP.
(www mrcpuk.org). He then moved to
the US in 1996, and “did my residency
again, got my full training again, as is
the law of the land,” working at St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, New
Jersey. He worked in a group practice
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Chiefs continued from page 2.
ment necessitated expansion and construction was completed in the second
half of 2004.
With new services and continued growth, it is time to consider a
major addition to the campus. We
have been working with architects and
our boards to develop a strategic plan
for the future growth of our services so
that we can continue to meet the needs
of the community.
Despite the increasing needs
and increasing services, there are still
challenges that the hospital must overcome. Oregon’s economy and the cuts
in state funding and other healthcare
services has caused more members of
the community to rely on Providence
for support.
In 2004, the community benefit contribution of Providence Seaside
Hospital increased by 39% to over $2
million. This continues the tradition of
charitable care provided by Providence Health System’s North Coast
Service Area which was identified
recently by the Office for Oregon
Health Policy and Research as having
almost the largest percentage of charity care provided in the state, second
only to Providence Health System in
Newberg.
Providence Seaside not only
provides routine and emergency care
for those unable to pay, but on
Tuesday evenings, hospital-staff volunteers provide clinic services
through the Providence Care Clinic
located on the west side of the hospital
building. There, doctors, nurses and
receptionists volunteer their time to
treat patients and families who have
no health insurance and cannot afford
health care through traditional
sources.
Another service that is provided to our community of established patients is the medication assistance program. This program is sup-
ported by volunteers from the auxiliary and clinic staff to obtain medication from pharmaceutical companies
for patients who cannot afford to buy
See Chiefs, continued on page 15.
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Hospitality Industry NEWS
A special section of Lower Columbia BUSINESS
Muddy Waters & its Suitemate Have New Owners
They haven’t changed vocations, just taken on ownership of existing enterprise
T
his month we take
a peek at a tiny
eaterie
located
smack in the middle of downtown Tillamook, called
Muddy Waters. In a space that was
once a bakery, the former owner transformed it into a coffee shop, and the
new owner is expanding on the menu.
The new owner is Judi
Labeck. Judi was born in California
and moved to Portland in 1972. “I
raised my children and then moved
down here in 2001,” she said, referring
to a relocation to Tillamook. “My husband and I bought property and we’re
building a house.. He is an engineer
and in our spare time we pound
nails.” Judi worked for the past three
years as head waitress for the Elks
Lodge across the street from Muddy
Waters. “I worked for somebody else
for 40 years and decided to take it on
for myself for a change.” Prior to waitressing, she worked for adidas
America and Nike for ten years each
as a customer service/salesperson. “I
decided when my kids got older and
grown and gone I didn’t need to be in
the corporate world anymore. That is
why I got into the restaurant business.
I like dealing with people...I love to
cook and banter with people.” As the
new owner of Muddy Waters she has
brought in a lunch menu with a homemade hot special everyday and a different homemade soup daily. She is
there as early as 5am daily to make
Relocated Ladies: These ladies have been around town in their respective
vocations for a while, but now they are Suitemates at 1904 Third Street in
downtown Tillamook. They are each waiting to pamper you in their own way.
lunches for fishermen if they will call
in their order the evening before .
Menu prices range from a cup of soup
for $2.50 to a lunch special sandwich
and side dish for $4.50. I had the cranberry turkey sandwich with a secret
i n g redient, a wedge of orange she
drops in to add an extra-special juiciness --very tasty.
Located in a corner of what I
understand used to be the open space
of the bakery is Sandy’s Salon. The
space was formerly occupied by the
Hometown Barber, whom we wrote
about in LCB June, 2004.
Sandy’s
Salon
opened
December 13, 2004. Owner Sandy
Hurliman was born and raised in
Tillamook. She has been styling hair
for the past seven years, working at
BJs and The Hair Company. Before
that she worked for the State of
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“When my boss at the state told me
they were ending that position, my
mother said...as I was cutting her
hair.... that I should research beauty
colleges. I did. The minute I walked
into Astoria Beauty College I knew
this is what I wanted,” she said.
Sandy offers hair care for men
and women, cuts, colors and perms,
and “up-do’s” for weddings or proms.
“I do an awful lot of them, actually. It
was a gut-wrenching decision when
Joanne asked me about purchasing the
shop. My clientele has been wonderful.
It feels really good to come into work
and know that it is my shop.” LCB
Muddy Waters
Owner: Judi Labeck
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Tillamook, OR 97141
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Stephanie Potts, FNP
Joanne RichardsonTollerton, MD
for four years in New Jersey then
taught for two years at Somerset
Medical Center in Somerville, New
Jersey. “By that time my second child
had graduated from college,” he continued, “ and I decided to take life at a
slower pace....’tho I haven’t found that
yet... I was looking for three Ss: no
Snow, a Small town and a Solo practice.” He and his wife arrived in
Astoria on July 25 and he has been
seeing patients in his solo pediatric
practice there since August 5.
Jay Mc Donnell, MD
Dr. McDonnell grew up in
Washington DC. “I came to Olympia
in high school,” he said. He has a
bachelor of science degree from the
University of Notre Dame and a doctorate of medicine from the University
of Texas Medical School in San
Antonio. He served both his internship and residency in Akron, Ohio. He
is licensed in Ohio and Washington
and certified by the American Board
of Orthopedic Surgery and the American Board of Forensic Medicine. He
holds fellowships from Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and
The Hospital for Special Surgery in
New York and has held teaching positions in Ohio, Washington and New
York. “When I finished my training,
my father suggested I come down
here. We have had a family home here
for eons. There were no orthopedic
s u rgeons on the Peninsula at the
time... in Astoria, yes, but not here. I’d
come down two days a week for three
or four years. I really enjoyed it. It was
a nice break. Something happens
when you get to Montesano....the tie
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Truman Sasaki, MD
Greg Saunders, MD
comes off and you are more relaxed.
My wife loves it out here. I talked with
the administrator and the board. They
are a real can-do type of group. When
you have that kind of leadership...that
is creative and ready to grow, it makes
it fun. Just last Monday I started here
full time.
My interests are in joint
replacement, ‘total joints.’ My goal is
if people want to stay here -- I can
make that possible for them. I can save
them long painful trips in ambulances. We will be treating all kinds of
fractures. The equipment we have
coming is all top of the line... the same
stuff they use in every major city.”
Wendell Tollerton, MD
Sandra Werner, MD
They were ‘holding our grandchildren
captive.’”
Dr. Miller has studied in
Washington, California and Michigan,
practiced in Michigan, Ireland and
Colorado and taught in Arizona. He is
certified by the American Board of
Otolaryngology in head and neck
surgery. Still not content to be in one
place, he started working at the coast
in August 2004 and has office hours in
both Astoria and Tillamook.
Daniella Mittan, MD
Dr. Mittan was born and
raised in Bucharest, Rumania. She
came to the U.S. at age 17. “Here I
have the ability to do anything I want
with my career,” she said. “I couldn’t
do that under Communism. I studied
industrial chemistry in high school,
but that would have landed me a job
at a gas station. The closest I would
have been able to work with medicine
would have been at a medicine factory, producing surgical thread.” Her
sister and parents also moved here
and she lived first in San Diego. She
attended medical school at the Sackler
School of Medicine in Tel Aviv, Israel
because she didn’t want to wait for
acceptance to medical school in the
States. “I never took a regular English
class until I got into college,” she continued.”We had French and German
in school. We had moved away from
Russian which was compulsory when
my parents were growing up.” She
continued her education after med
school at the University of California
at San Francisco and Highland
General Hospital in Oakland. She is
Roger Miller, MD
Dr. Miller was born in
Portland, and raised in Yakima,
Washington. Going into medicine
was, “always in my mind,” he said. “I
really decided in college. I attended
Gonzaga University in Spokane and
med school at the University of
Washington in Seattle.” He completed
s u rgery residency at Vanderbilt in
Nashville, Tennessee, and his ENT
residency at University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“I had practiced 21 years in
Colorado,“ he continued,”after holding a teaching position at the
University of Arizona. I wanted to go
back into private practice -- my specialty is ear, nose and throat surgery -and I interned at LA county (USC
Medical Center)....spent two years as a
flight surgeon in the Air Force during
Viet Nam....“We intended to retire
somewhere on the Oregon coast. Our
children were located here before us.
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for our area clinics
organized by county. We are unable to
list independent provider offices here.
We have tried to ensure that this information is accurate. Please do not hesi-
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Columbia County, Oregon
Clinic Name
and
Contact Person
Physical and
Mailing Address
Telephone
Fax
E-mail
Website (www.)
Areas
of
Specialization
Ave # of:
Patients Monthly
Full Time Staff
Visitng Specialists
Year Clinic
Established
and Hospital
Affiliation
Clatskanie
Clinic
Charleen Pruett
135 SW Tichenor
PO Box 283
Clatsakanie, OR
97016
503/728-4905
503/728-0315
char@
clatskanie.com
Family
Care Clinic
Family Planning
375
2
2
1996
Works in cooperation
with both St. Johns &
Col. Memorial Hospital
Columbia County
Health Dept.
Contact Any Staffer
2370 Gable Road
P. O. Box 995
St. Helens, OR
97051
500+
7
2
1982
OHSU for some
programs
Legacy Clinic St. Helens
Barb Fordyce
500 North Columbia
River Highway #6
St. Helens, OR
97051
503/397-0471
503/366-5519
None
leagacyhealthsystems.org
Internal Medicine
Midwifery, Pediatrics
Urgent Care
Radiology/Lab
2,000+
23
6
1998
Legacy Health
System
The Livingston Clinic
Dr. Mark Livingston
58147 Columbia
River Highway, Ste B
St. Helens, OR
97051
503/366-3631
503/366-3632
thelivingstonclinic.
yourmd. com
Family Practice
Obstetrics
Pediatrics
Not Provided
6
0
2001
None
503/397-4651
Family Planning
503/397-1424
WIC, Pre-natal care
phealth@
for low income, low
chdpublichealth.com
or no insurance
Portions of Pacific and Wahkiakum Counties, Southwest Washington
Naselle Clinic
Gwen Meyer, ARNP
Ocean Beach Clinic
Lisa Sthay, RN
Clinic Director
Peace Health
Medical Clinic
Bernie Goller
Family Health Center
at North Beach
Arlene LaVigne
21 N. Valley Rd.
P. O. Box 188
Naselle, WA
98638
174 First Av. N.
P. O. Box N
Ilwaco, WA
98624
335 Una Street
P. O. Box 308
Cathlamet, WA
98612
21610 Pacific Hwy
P. O. Box 548
Ocean Park, WA
98640
360/484-7161
Family Practice
360/484-7178
[email protected]
oceanbeachhospital.org
360/642-3747
Internal Medicine
360/642-3361
Family Practice
[email protected] General & Orthopedic
oceanbeachhospital.org Surgery, Orthopedics
360/795-3201
Family Practice
360/795-3209
bgoller@
peacehealth.org
360/665-3000
Internal Medicine &
360/665-3096
Family Practice
[email protected]
JARVIS, REDWINE & CHALOUX
Certified Public Accountants
(503) 325- 2945
801 Commercial, Astoria
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250
3
None
1600
20
None
Not Provided
Ocean Bch
Hospital
Not Provided
600
2
None
Ocean Bch
Hospital
1996
St. John
Medical Center
575
7
1
2000
Cowlitz Family Heatlh
Center, Longview
Turn to the Experts
Heating • Cooling • Refrigeration
503-325-2180
Clatsop County
Clinic Name
and
Contact Person
or Clinic Manager
Clatsop County
Health Dept.
Don Schreiner
Providence
N.C. Seaside
Sharon White,
RN MSN
Providence
North Coast C.B.
Sharon White,
RN MSN
O’Donovan
Clinic
Carol O’Donovan
Physical and
Mailing Address
Telephone
Areas
Fax
of
E-mail &/or
Specialization
Website (www.)
820 Exchange Street
503/325-8500
Immunizations
P. O. Box 206
503/325-8678
Comm. Dis., F. Planning
Astoria, OR
dschreiner@
STDs, WIC,
97103
co.clastop.or.us
Mat. Child Health
727 S. Wahanna
503/717-7556
Family Practice
Seaside, OR 97138
503/717-7476
Internal Medicine
providence.org/
OBGYN, orthopedics
northcoast
urology
171 N Larch, # 16,
503/717-7556
Family Practice
Cannon Beach
503/717-7402
Monday - Thursday
Mailing
providence.org/
c/o PNCC, SS (above)
northcoast
580 Avenue U
503/738-5571
Family Practice
Seaside, OR
503/738-5573
Vascular, ophthalmology
97138
[email protected]
Bone Densitometry
Clatsop County
Health & Human Svcs.
South County Satellite
Don Schreiner
Columbia Memorial
Hospital Women’s
Center
Coastal Family Health
Center
575 S. Roosevelt
Seaside, OR
97138
550 22nd Street
Astoria, OR
97103
2055 Exchange St.,
Suite 210
Astoria, OR 97103
Astoria:
503/325-8500
Fax 503/325-8678
Call for Information
about immunisations,
WIC and Family
Planning
338-7595
Womens health gyno325-4905
cololgial maternity,
ColumbiaMemorial.org
pre-natal
503/325-8315
Family Doctors, Family
503/325-8602
Nurse Practitioners,
coastalfhc.org
Family Practice
Ave # of:
Patients Monthly
Full Time Staff
Visiting Specialists
800
34
None
Year Clinic Established
and Hospital Affiliation
2,700
11
10
1992
Providence Health System
160
1
0
1998
Providence Health System
Not Provided
6
5
1947
Works with Providence
Seaside Hospital
Varies
Varies
All
2001
None
575-610
12
0
1,000+
17
o
2000
Columbia Memorial
Hospital
2004
Columbia Memorial
Hospital
1916
None
Tillamook County
Tillamook County
Health Dept.
John Robinson
801 Pacific Ave.
P. O. Box 489
Tillamook, OR 97141
503/842-3900
503/842-3983
jrobinson@
co.tillamook.or.us
General Medical
and Dental
1800
50
None
1975
as Public Health 1994
None
Rinehart Clinic
Charlene Toninato
230 Rowe Street
PO Box 176
Wheeler, OR
97147
1011 Third St.
Tillamook, OR
97141
503/368-5182
503/368-5590
rinehartclinic.org
Family Practice
900+
13
2
503/842-7533
503/842-9636
Not Provided
Internal Medicine
Not Provided
8
None
1994 as Rural
HealthClinic
1996 as Rinehart Clinic
None
2000
Tillamook County
General Hospital
2,400
28
2
1974
Tillamook County
General Hospital
Bay Ocean Medical PC
Deborah Vierra
TillamookMedical
Associates
Sid Rittenbach
980 Third Street #200
Tillamook, OR
97141
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Is su e Focus
Medix Rolls into Metro without a Name Change
Ambulance “Family” purchases local service
J.
D. Fuiten grew up
with the family
ambulance
business. “My dad was a
mortician,” he said, “which is how
most ambulance services in Ore g o n
were operated up to the 1980s.” Both
J.D. and the ambulance company,
Metro West, were born in the same
year, 1953. After college J.D. worked
J.D. Fuiten photo by Lesle Palmeri.
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for his dad full time, working with
Metro West which serves Washington
County. By 1987 they started Pacific
West which serves Pacific City in
lower Tillamook County. Now they
have added the Medix Ambulance
Service to their stable of businesses.
Medix was purchased by O.
David Dicksen in 1975 and he re t a i n e d
ownership of the company until just
last November. Medix serves Clatsop
County and provides ambulance services: emergency ambulance, medical
transport and wheelchair transport via
med-vans.
According to J.D. there will be
only “incremental” changes at Medix.
Roger Pfifer has left the firm since J.D.
will be assuming his duties there, but
for now, the name of the company and
the rates will not change. “We are
working within the next month to add
another ambulance to the fleet, 12
hours a day, 7 days a week to add more
ambulances to the area.” According to
J.D., Medix employs about 35 full and
part-time individuals and this brings
to around 300 the number of employees company-wide. J.D. plans to be in
the Clatsop County office at least once
a week for now. LCB
Medix Ambulance Service
Owner: J.D. Fuiten
2325 SE Dolphin Avenue
Warrenton, Oregon 97146
Telephone: 503-861-1990
Fax: 503-861-5555
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: Under Construction
Hours: 24/7
the medication. Patients cannot have
other prescription benefits and must
meet income restrictions in order to
meet eligibility requirements of the
various programs.
As Seaside’s largest business,
it is important that we give back to the
community. It is through the support
of our patients and the community
that we have developed the capacity
to provide so much charity care.”
Jim Robertson photoby Lesle Palmeri
Jim Robertson of Ocean Beach
Hospital states that this has been a
year of growth of services and the
addition of new providers. (See the
“New Faces” story beginning on page
4.) They have brought in new outpatient clinical services, added new visiting physicians and started a new cardiology clinic. We have seen tremendous success there,” said Jim. “So
much that those days are expanding doubling from one day a month to
two. We are doing vascular imaging,
something we began last springs, and
we started our oncology clinic with
Dr. Ivan Law, two days a month. It has
been so well received we will be
expanding that in the future to four
days a month. We reinstated our
chemotherapy program....our cardiac
rehab program is doing well...we are
now developing a pulmonary rehab
program. We had just started our MRI
services at this time last year one day
a week and just this week, with our
orthopedic surgeon and the startup of
our orthopedic program, the MRI may
need to go potentially to two days a
week.”
With all of these expanding
services and programs, they are on the
lookout for more providers. “We are
still looking for additional specialty
services clinics,” continued Jim, “We
would like to begin a urology clinic, a
rheumatology clinic, arthritis, allergies..... We just listen to what the community needs....We try to be forward
thinking and proactive.”
“We have added a patient
advocate to liaison with the patients,
to assist them with any needs that the
physicians don’t provide, as well as a
patient questionnaire. The patient
advocate monitors those results and
then they are shared with our Western
Washington Rural Hospital Gro u p .
The six member hospitals developed
the questionnaire and we are going to
benchmark the answers and share
them to see how we are doing.”
“With that same group of hospitals we recently hooked into a video
conferencing network on this side of
the state. Now we are interconnected...tied in through the University of
Washington Medical Center. This will
allow us to take advantage of education programs for our staff as well as
the possibility for ‘tele-health’ - video
consulting. One of our physicians
down here can be talking to a specialist at the University of Washington.
The patient could be here -- or there -with the physician at the other end
talking to the patient without having
to actually be there -- this has a lot of
potential.
“Now that we have completed our major expansion and remodeling program with the hospital, we are
working on our patient care areas. We
were planning it last year... now we
are starting to move on it. We bought
all new patient room furniture last
September. We will have new ceilings,
paint, wallcoverings... there will be a
little remodel of the nurses
station...we will enlarge the pharmacy...make the old part look like the
new part, like 2005, not 1974.”
See Chiefs, continued on page 22.
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FEBRUARY
3
THURSDAY
7:00 AM Tillamook Chamber TCCA,
Info 503-842-7525 (Every Thursday)
8:30 AM Seaside Downtown Dev. Assn,
Pig’N Pancake (Every Thursday)
8:30 AM Cannon Beach Safety Cmte., City H
4:30 PM C. B. Public Works Cmte., City Hall
7:00 PM Tillamook Plan. Comm., City Hall
7:00 PM Rockaway Beach Fire & Safety
Meeting, Fire Station
7:00 PM Wheeler City Planning, City Hall
7:00 PM Bay City Neighborhood Watch
Meeting, City Hall
7:30 PM Columbia City City Council, City Hall
4
FRIDAY
8:00 AM Tillamook Downtown Assoc., Blue
Moon Cafe (1st, 2nd, and 3rd Friday)
8:00 AM St. Helens Koffee Klatsch,
Info 503-397-0685 (1st & 3rd Friday)
8:30 AM Seaside Chamber Breakfast,
Pig’N Pancake (Every Friday)
10:00 AM Clatsop Co. Solid Waste Advisory
Team, 800 Exchange Astoria
7
MONDAY
8:00 AM Bay City Council Workshop, City Hall
9:00 AM A.A.R.P. Tax Prep., B.C.C.C.
`
Seaside (Every Monday)
7:00 PM Vernonia City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Astoria City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Tillamook City Council, City Hall
7:30 PM St. Helens Library Bd. Mtg., Library
7:30 PM Rainier City Council, Rainier City Hall
8
TUESDAY
8:30 AM Cannon Beach Plan. W/S, City Hall
9:00 AM Pacific Co. Commissioners Mtg.
County Board of Health Meeting,South
Bend Courthouse (2nd & 4th Tuesday)
9:30 AM Wahkiakum Co. Commission,
Cathlamet Courthouse (Every Tuesday)
10:00 AM Columbia Center Art Committee,
Info 503-397-9174
11:30 AM St. Helens Chamber Forum,
info 503-397-0685
12:00 PM Wahkiakum Chamber Mtg., Janet’s
River Restaurant, Cathlamet
4:00 PM Port of Astoria W/S, Port of Astoria
6:00 PM Tillamook PUD Board Mtg. PUD office
6:30 PM Tillamook Co. Fair Bd., Fair Grounds
Avamere
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independence when you want it,
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Business Events
7:00 PM St. Helens Plan. Com., City Hall
7:00 PM Columbia City Planning, City Hall
7:00 PM Warrenton City Commission, City H
7:00 PM Cannon Beach Council Worksession
7:30 PM Bay City City Council, City Hall,
Info 503-377-2288
9
WEDNESDAY
7:00 AM Tillamook Chamber Bd. Dir. Chamber
8:30 AM Pacific Co Tsunami Summit,
Edgewater Inn Long Beach
9:00 AM Tillamook Co. Bd. of Commissioners,
Courthouse (Every Wednesday)
10:00 AM Columbia County Commission, St.
Helens Courthouse (Every Wednesday)
1:00 PM SS Council Goal Setting W/S, CH
5:00 PM Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners W/Session, 800 Exchange
5:30 PM Manzanita Merchants Assn.,
Bank of Astoria
5:30 PM Sunset Parks & R. D. Scholarship
Board, Seaside B.C.C.C.
6:00 PM Clatsop County Board of
Commissioners, 800 Exchange Astoria
6:15 PM Rockaway Beach Public safety
Committee, NKN School Dist Office
7:00 PM Rockaway Beach City Council,
NKN School Dist. Office
7:00 PM Warrenton City Plan. Com., City Hall
7:00 PM Port of St. Helens Com., Port Office
7:00 PM Manzanita City Council, City Hall
7:30 PM Gearhart Planning Com., City Hall
10 THURSDAY
10:00 AM Seaside Chamber Full Bd., Chamber
11:00 AM Tillamook Co. Library Board, Library
12:00 PM Vernonia Parks Committee, City Hall
3:00 PM Rockaway Beach Public Works
Committee, City Hall
6:30 PM Tillamook Co Trans. Bd., TCTD Office
6:30 PM Garibaldi Chamber Meeting,
Inn at Garibaldi
7:00 PM Tillamook Co. Plan. Com, Courthouse
11 FRIDAY
12:00 PM CEDC Transportation Committee,
Port of Astoria Offices
14 MONDAY
10:00 AM A.A.R.P. Board Mtg. SS B. C.C.C.
6:00 PM Ilwaco City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Clatskanie Library Board, Library
7:00 PM Seaside City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Long Beach City Council, City Hall
7:30 PM Nehalem City Council, City Hall
15 TUESDAY
8:00 AM Northwest Power Planning Council,
Info 800-452-5161
11:30 AM St. Helens Chamber Board, Chamber
1:00 PM Seaside Public Safety Mtg., City Hall
1:30 PM St Helens Council W/ Session, CH
5:15 PM Astoria Hist. Landmarks Commission
6:00 PM Bay City Planning, City Hall
6:00 PM Ilwaco City Planning, City Hall
6:00 PM Port of Astoria Commission,
Port of Astoria Office
Calendar
Call 738-3398 or fax 738-0172
6:00 PM Port of Tillamook Commissioners
Meeting. Port Office
7:00 PM Pulse Computer Group,
Info 503-738-8438
7:00 PM Columbia City Pks. Comte., City Hall
7:00 PM Long Beach City Planning, City Hall
7:00 PM Seaside Planning W/S , City Hall
16 WEDNESDAY
5:30 PM Sunset Parks & Rec. District Board,
Seaside B.C.C.C.
6:45 PM Columbia Arts Guild, St. Helens
Columbia Center Auditorium
7:00 PM Wheeler City Council, Nehalem Bay
Health Dist. Office
7:30 PM St. Helens City Council, City Hall
7:30 PM Nehalem Planning, City Hall
17 THURSDAY
8:30 AM Cannon Beach Safety Cte., City Hall
9:30 AM Cannon Beach Parks & Community
Services, Cannon Beach City Hall
4:00 PM Seaside City Tree Board, City Hall
6:30 PM Cannon Beach D.& Review, City Hall
7:00 PM Vernonia Planning Comm., City Hall
21
MONDAY
Presidents’ Day
22 TUESDAY
10:30 AM Cannon Beach Friends of Ecola Creek
forest Reserve, City Hall
12:00 PM Wahkiakum Chamber Mtg., Janet’s
River Restaurant, Cathlamet
3:30 PM Astoria Library Board, Astor Library
6:00 PM Seaside Airport Committee, City Hall
6:00 PM Rockaway Beach Planning, City Hall
6:00 PM CEDC Dinner Meeting,
Info 503-325-8611
7:00 PM Garibaldi City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Manzanita City Planning, City Hall
7:00 PM Rainier Planning, Rainier City Hall
7:00 PM Vernonia City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Town of Cathlamet Council, River
Street Meeting Room
7:00 PM Columbia City Com. Library Meeting
7:00 PM Astoria City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Tillamook City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Warrenton City Comm., City Hall
7:30 PM Rainier City Council, Rainier City Hall
23 WEDNESDAY
11:30 AM Port of St. Helens Comm., Port Office
6:00 PM Clatsop Co Bd Commissioners,
Seaside B.C.C.C.
7:00 PM Clatskanie Planning, City Hall
7:00 PM Rockaway Beach City Council, NKN
School Dist. Office
7:00 PM Astoria Planning Comm., City Hall
7:30 PM Port of Nehalem Board of
Commissioners, Wheeler City Hall
24 THURSDAY
10:00 AM SS Chamber Full Board, Chamber
12:00 PM Clatsop Co. Rec. Lands Plan.
Advisory Committee, 800 Exchange
1:00 PM A.A.R.P. Mtg., Seaside B. C.C.C.
3:30 PM Port Of Astoria Safety Mtg.,
Port of Astoria Office
4:00 PM Manzanita Public Safety Committee
4:30 PM Rainier City Library Board, Library
4:30 PM Vernonia Trans. Com., City Hall
7:00 PM C. B. Planning Commission, City Hall
25 FRIDAY
8:00 AM Tillamook Downtown Assoc. Board
of Dir., 2nd St. Coffee House
9:00 AM Cannon Beach Emergency
Preparedness, City Hall
4:00 PM Rockaway Beach Nature
Conservancy Committee, Community
Center
28 MONDAY
7:00 AM Astoria Parks & Rec. Board, City Hall
12:00 PM Tillamook Visionary Mtg., City Hall
4:00 PM St. Helens Parks Comm., City Hall
6:00 PM Ilwaco City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Garibaldi Plan. Comm., City Hall
7:00 PM Seaside City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Long Beach City Council, City Hall
MARCH
1
TUESDAY
10:00 AM Seaside Community Center,
Commission Mtg., B.C.C.C.
11:30 AM St. Helens Chamber Executive Board
4:30 PM Seaside Library Board, Library
5:15 PM Clatsop Co Fair Board, Fairgrounds
6:30 PM St. Helens Arts & Cultural
Commission, City Hall
7:00 PM Seaside Planning Com., City Hall
7:00 PM Cannon Beach City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Port of St. Helens Marina Advisory
Board, Info 503-397-2888
2
WEDNESDAY
9:00 AM Vernonia Library Board, City Hall
10:00 AM Clatsop Co. Soil & Water
Conservation Dist., Info 503-325-4571
10:00 AM Columbia County Commission, St.
Helens Courthouse
10:00 AM St. Helens Tourism Com. Mtg, CH
12:00 PM CEDC Exec. Board Mtg., CEDC Office
6:30 PM Columbia Co. Planning, Courthouse
7:00 PM Gearhart City Council, City Hall
7:00 PM Seaside Improve. Com., City Hall
7:30 PM St. Helens City Council, City Hall
7:30 PM Clatskanie City Council, City Hall
7:30 PM Town of Cathlamet Planning,
Cathlamet Library
3
THURSDAY
4:30 PM Cannon Beach Public Works Cmte.,
Cannon Beach City Hall
5:15 PM Astoria Design Review Committee,
Astoria City Hall
7:00 PM Tillamook Planning Comm., City Hall
7:00 PM Rockaway Beach Fire & Safety
Meeting, Fire Station
7:00 PM Wheeler City Planning, City Hall
Area Service Club Meetings
Posted meeting days/ times/locations
for area service clubs. Please report
any changes by the 20th of the month
for next month’s posting. Thank you.
KIWANIS
Astoria/Warrenton, Tuesday, noon,
Red Lion Inn, Astoria
Cathlamet, Tues, 7:15am, The Riverview
Clatskanie, Tuesday, 6:15 pm (First & fifth
Tuesdays), Mr. Fultano’s Restaurant.
Second, third & fourth Tuesdays, Hump’s
Restaurant)
Ilwaco-Long Beach, Monday, 6 pm,
The Lightship Restaurant, Long Beach
Manza-Whee-Lem, 2nd & 4th Wed., noon,
Pine Grove Community Center, Manzanita
Scappoose, 1st & 3rd Wednesday, 6:30 pm,
Warren Country Inn
Seaside, Thursday, noon, Pig ‘N Pancake
St. Helens DayBreakers, Tuesday, 7 am,
Warren Country Inn
St. Helens NoonTi m e, Thursday, noon,
Elks Club
Tillamook, Wednesday, noon, Elks Lodge
LIONS
Astoria, Tuesday, 6:30 pm, Astoria Elks
Lodge
Garibaldi, 1st & 3rd Monday, 6:30 pm, Old
Mill
Rockaway, 1st & 3rd Tuesday, 11:30 am
Lions Clubhouse
Seaside, Wednesday, 7am, Pig ‘N Pancake
Tillamook, Tuesday, noon, Shilo Restaurant
ROTARY
Astoria, Monday, noon, Astoria Red Lion
Columbia County, Wednesday, noon,
Warren Country Inn
Peninsula, Tuesday, 7:30 am, The
Lightship Restaurant, Long Beach
Seaside, Thursday, noon, Best Western
Oceanview Resort
Tillamook, Tuesday, noon, Fern Restaurant
Warrenton Sunrise, Wednesday, 6:45 am,
Doogers, Warrenton
ELKS B.P.O.E.
Astoria, 2/4 Thursday, 8 pm, 450 11th
Long Beach, 2/4 Wednesday, 8 pm, LB
Seaside, Wednesday, 8 pm, 324 Avenue A
AAUW
Astoria, 2nd Tuesday, 7pm, Astor Library
Flag Room
TOASTMASTERS
Astoria, 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 6:15pm,
Alderbrook Hall, 4509 Leif Erickson Drive
N. COAST REP. WOMEN
North Coast, Location Varies,503-440-2331
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Is su e Focus
Provider List: Medical Pro fessionals by Category
North Coast’s medical providers from A to...U, not quite to Z
T
he following referral information has
been provided by
re p resentatives of
the major hospitals and clinics in our
Lower Columbia readership area.
Please be aware that physicians and
practitioners may provide services at
more than one location and may provide more than one area of service.
Some categories of information provided in previous years may be eliminated or new categories added. We try
to make the list as accurate as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact
us with additional information or corrections. LCB
Ambulance Services/Transportation
Clatsop County:
Along the Shore Transport.........503/738-8140
Medix Medi-Van.........................503/861-1990
In case of emergency,
Wahkiahkum County:
American Medical Response.....360/750-4679
Sherriff’s Office/Dispatch ..........360/795-3242
dial
9-1-1
Columbia County:
Metro West Ambulance Svc.......503/648-6658
Vernonia Fire Department..........503/429-4600
Tillamook County:
Garibaldi Ambulance..................9-1-1
Manzanita Ambulance................9-1-1
Tillamook Co. General Hospital.503/842-4444
Pacific City.................................9-1-1
Pacific County:
Fire District #1(Bus. Office)........360/665-4451
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Anaesthesia
Ken Carey, CRNA......................503/717-7000
Mark Finkbeiner, CRNA..............503/325-4321
Kevin Johnson, CRNA................503/325-4321
Randall Johnson,CRNA.............503/325-4321
Betty Miller, CRNA......................360/642-3181
Michael Reeves, CRNA..............360/642-3181
Audiology/Hearing Resources
Duane Anderson.........................503/842-5546
Jay Thurman, B Sc., BC-HIS.....503/738-5571
Cardiology
Masud Ahmad, MD.....................503/297-6234
Franz Aepfelbacher, MD.............503/297-6234
Todd Caulfield, MD.....................503/297-6234
Maureen Goldring, MD...............503/397-0471
Richard Sohn, MD......................503/297-6234
William Simkoff, MD...................503/297-6234
Donald Stutzman, MD................503/554-1187
Donald Sutherland, MD..............503/297-6234
Michael Vawter, MD....................503/297-6234
Craig Walsh, MD........................503/297-6234
Geoffrey M. Wilson, MD.............503/297-6234
Michael Wilson, MD....................503/297-6234
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Allergy/Dermatology/Immunology
Kursteen Price, MD....................503/325-7546
Weimin Hu, MD..........................503/717-7000
Dental Surgeons/Oral & Maxillofacial
Jay P. Malmquist, DMD..............503/861-2190
Steve Clemens, DMD.................503/861-2190
EYE/OPHTHALMOLOGY - Patrick J. Chan MD, John A.Topinka Jr. MD
FAMILY PRACTICE - Karin Walczak MD
VASCULAR SURGERY - Philip Alexander, MD
CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER - Jean Danforth
HEARING RESOURCES - Jay Thurman, B. Sc., BC-HIS
BONE DENSITOMETRY - Pacific Medical Imaging
MIDWIFERY - Patricia Boullie, CNM
VISA
Acupuncture
Tom Geha, MAOM......................360/665-3000
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Ear/Nose/Throat/Otolaryngology
Phil Anderson, MD.....................503/325-8222
Roger Miller, MD........................866-225-7960
Sam Shiley, MD..........................503/397-0471
Edward Treyve, MD....................503/325-8222
Endocrinology
Daniella Mittan, MD....................503/325-5360
Emergency Medicine
J. Stephen Bell, DO...................360/642-3181
Mark Bowman, MD.....................503/842-4444
Barron Brown, MD......................360/642-3181
Brett Johnson, MD.....................503/842-4444
Brian Lane, MD..........................503/842-4444
Roy Little, MD.............................503/325-4321
Jeff Luty, MD..............................503/717-7000
Gene McColgin, MD...................503/842-4444
Carolyn Merten, MD...................503/325-4321
Mike Mitchell, MD.......................503/325-4321
Jim Sisk, MD..............................503/717-7000
Brenda Smith, MD......................503/325-4321
Kim Y. Smith, MD.......................360/642-3181
Mark Stefanelli, MD....................503/717-7000
Matthew Turney, MD..................503/842-4444
Mark J. Waliser, MD...................360/642-3181
Larry Zagata, MD.......................503/325-4321
Family/General Practice
(*May also practice OB)
Scott Ashley, MD........................503/325-8315
Richard Avalon, DO....................360/795-3201
Kevin Baxter, DO.......................503/325-3661.
Paul Betlinski, MD......................503/842-3900
Stephen Bellinger, PA-C...........360/ 642-3747
David A. Bradburn, MD..............503/842-5546
Ben Cockcroft, MD.....................503/717-7556
Thomas Duncan, MD*................503/325-9131
Dominique Greco, MD*..............503/717-7556
Sandra Kosik, PA-C...................503/368-5182
Mark Livingston..........................503/366-3631
Karl B. Meier, Jr. MD..................503/842-5546
Angela Naim, MD*......................503/325-5300
Jeff Maples, MD.........................360/642-3747
Mhairi McFarlane, MD................503/366-3631
Katherine Merrill, MD*................503/325-5300
Harry Rinehart, MD....................503/368-5182
Glen Sayler, MD.........................503/842-5546
John Schumacher, MD...............503/397-0471
Walter Shaffer, MD......................503/717-7556
Robert Soans, PAC.....................503/368-5182
Hugh Stelson, MD.......................503/717-7556
Michael Sthay, MD......................360/642-3747
Samuel Suk, MD.........................503/325-9366
Joanne Richardson-Tollerton,MD503/325-8315
G. Wendell Tollerton, MD............503/325-8315
Karin Walczak, MD.....................503/738-5571
Sandra Werner, MD....................503/717-7000
Keith J. Wright, MD.....................360/795-3201
Family/Certified Nurse Practitioner and
Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner
Arthur Dan, FNP..........................503/842-3661
Jean Danforth, NP.......................503/738-5571
Connie Davis, RNC,MSN,PNP....503/728-4905
Margie M. Godfrey, ARNP, FNP..360/795-3201
Barbara Herdman, PNP..............503/842-5546
Lynn Hoth, NP-C.........................503/717-7556
Gary Jacobsen, CFNP................503/325-5411
Bill Johnson, FNP........................503/842-3900
Charlotte Kocher, ANP................503/397-0471
Terri Miller, ARNP........................360/665-3000
Michelle Olsen, MA.....................503/728-4905
Stephanie Potts, RN, FNP..........503/325-8315
Charleen Pruett, OHNP, ANP......503/728-4905
Shirley Pryor, ARNP....................360/642-3747
Luretta Rand, FNP......................503/842-5546
Deborah Reynolds,ANP,ACNP,MSN 503/728-4905
Susan Skinner, CNM, FNP.........503/325-9131
Gwen Meyer, ARNP....................360/484-7161
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Internal Medicine
Gerardo Arnaez, MD..................503/717-7556
Atul Bhasin, MD..........................360/665-3000
Bruce Bobek, DO........................503/325-5411
Albert Fabiano, MD....................360/642-3747
PaulJohn Hayner, MD................503/325-5360
Denise Hayward, MD.................503/397-0471
Calvin Hill, MD............................503/842-5546
Parvez Islam, MD.......................503/842-7533
Samudyatha Kumar, MD............503/842-5546
Steven Losli, MD........................503/397-0471
Susan Mark, MD.........................503/397-0471
Mikeanne Minter, MD.................503/397-0471
Richard Natzke, MD...................503/325-5360
Timothy Opie, MD......................503/717-7556
Sonny Park, MD.........................503/325-5360
Rex Parsons, MD.......................503/842-7533
Steve Vander Waal, MD.............503/738-3832
Paul Voeller, MD.........................503/325-3661
Ray Westermeyer, MD...............503/842-7533
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(503) 325-7972 • (800) 207-4358 • [email protected]
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Is su e Focus
Practice Expands to offer Dental Services
Family Health Center, North Beach Clinic now to include a dentist
he Family Health
Center at North
Beach has been
located near the
Senior Center in Ocean Park,
Washington since 2001. It is a satellite
clinic, affiliated with the Cowlitz
Family Health Center in Longview.
Just last August the group secured a
USDA loan to purchase their building,
lowering their monthly fixed operating costs by $2,500 per month and
allocating funds and planning to
include a dental clinic. In addition,
they have secured funding from the
M. J. Murdock and the Ben B. Cheney
foundations to assist with needed
equipment to add to the practice.
Beyond that, the group has raised
$100,000 from community and business groups on the Long Beach
Peninsula to support the construction
and equipment costs they anticipate.
Businesses that helped in the project
include the Moose Lodge, Pacific
Realty, The Grange, the Ocean Park
Chamber of Commerce, the SW
Washington Peninsula Rotary Club
and a whopping $10,000 from a clinic
patient who wishes to remain
anonomous. Why all of this support?
According to a release from the group,
“In 2002, only 1,300 (28%) of Pacific
County’s Medicaid-eligible residents
were able to get dental care. in 2003,
298 visits to the local emerg e n c y
department were from residents who
had dental pain and could not get
dental care elsewhere. Seventy percent of the 164 respondents to a local
dental-needs survey indicated that it
was difficult for them to get local dental services when they needed them
because of lack of money or dental
insurance. Ninety-nine percent of
respondents said it was very important to increase access to local dental
services for people with Medicaid or
no insurance.” Due to this, the group
has, “Forged new collaborations with
T
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Photo by Jack Palmeri.
Things are nicer at the Beach: While a specific provider has not been selected as of
press time, Family Health Center at North Beach will be offering dental
services this summer. This is part of their continuing outreach to the community.
Cowlitz Family Health Center to
develop a referral mechanism for both
Medicaid and uninsured patients
needing dental services.”
To make room for the new
services in their 4,000-plus square foot
building, Long Beach architect David
Jensen will convert the current X-ray
room and two medical exam rooms
into three dental operatories with sterilization and dental records and supplies storage space. Work is set to
begin this month with the hopes of
seeing patients by this summer.
They will offer the following
primary prevention, restorative and
emergency services on site: compre-
hensive exams, X-rays, cleaning and
fluoride treatments, sealants, dental
education, fillings, root canals,
c rowns, emergency services, extractions, oral surgery, hospital-based dental services, endodonics, orthodontics,
and dentures. LCB
Family Health Center at North Beach
Contact: Arlene LaVigne , Clinic Mgr.
Address: 21610 Pacific Highway
P. O. Box 548 Ocean Park, WA 98640
Telephone: 360-665-3000
Fax: 360-665-3096
E-mail: Thru website
Website: cfamhc.org
Hours: 8:30a -5:30p Monday - Friday
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Cafeteria-open to the public
Home Health
Hospice/Respite Services
Intensive Care Unit
Laboratory Services
Cardio-Pulmonary Service
Labor/Delivery Suites
Lifeline Service
NURSE PRACTITIONERS IN:
• Family Practice • Pediatrics
REHABILITATION SERVICES IN:
• Occupational Therapy
• Physical Therapy
• Speech Pathology
PHYSICIANS SPECIALIZING IN:
• ENT (Otolaryngology)
• Family Practice
• General Surgery
• Internal Medicine
• Laser and Aesthetics
• OB/GYN & Infertility
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Radiology
• Urology
VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS FOR:
• Adults and Teens
• Hospice
• Faith In Action
• Parish Nursing
RADIOLOGY
SERVICES:
• Bone Density
Tests • CAT &
MRI Scans
• Nuclear Scans
• Certified
Mammography
• UltraSound
SUPPORT GROUPS FOR:
• Chronic Illness
• Weight Loss
• Diabetes
• Grief Recovery
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Wendell Hesseltinephoto provided by TCGH
“In 2004 we became a critical
access hospital,” began Wendell
Hesseltine with the Tillamook County
General Hospital. “We are one of 22
hospitals in the state with that designation. This is a move that benefits the
hospital’s financial position by allowing cost reimbursement for Medicare
patients.
“We installed a new 16-slice
CT (Computed Tomography) scanner
in October that enhances our capabilities in imaging.... along with a new
MRI that was put in last year..... the
dialysis center opened...and we have
several new physicians.”
The dedicated MRI unit
replaced a mobile unit the hospital
had been accessing for twelve years. It
is also able to provide Magnetic
Resonance Angiography.
The Hospital worked with a
national research firm, PRC Professional Research Consultants, who pro-
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vided a physician satisfaction survey.
Representatives from the firm talked
with each physician and administered
a 20-minute survey with a series of
questions about what it is like to practice medicine at TCGH. The hospital
s c o red at the 100 percentile, “An
amazing accomplishment,” said
Wendell. “We were awarded FiveStars in four separate categories: The
overall quality of patient care; A good
Place to practice medicine; Emergency
Services; and Radiology Services. We
scored the highest of any of the hospitals they surveyed, and they survey
thousands. The only reason we did
not get their top award is that they
reserve that for hospitals with more
than 50 physicians....but we actually
scored better! Having your medical
staff give you an indication of these
high marks - that means we have done
an excellent job.”
Terry Finklein photo provided by CMH
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Memorial Hospital,” said Terry
Finklein, “with an influx of extremely
capable physicians that are not only a
wonderful addition to the hospital,
but to the community as a whole.
They are bringing energy and patients
back to the facility - it makes a nice
compliment of highly qualified staff.
“This year, we finished a couple of major projects. Our birthing
center was opened and dedicated this
last year. It contains an OB surgical
suite and birthing center. That means
that c-sections can be maintained all
within the birthing center. That is a
benefit to both families and our
patients. It keeps them more engaged
with the babies than in the past.
Before, the baby was recovered and
taken to the nursery - the mother was
taken to OB. Now the mother and
baby are taken to the same general
location.
“In addition, we are completing patient room upgrades. We started in critical care and now in the medsurg suites. The patient rooms have
been refurbished to become more
homelike, with sconce lighting, wooden wainscoting, artwork.... and the
bathrooms now have medicine cabinets. It is all just to make it a more
comfortable, homelike setting for
patients and family members.
“We are in the process of
installing a new espresso service -that was requested by staff and funded by the foundation -- for patients,
visitors and staff members. They will
be able to provide inexpensive snacks
for kids --- that is a benefit for moms.
“Overall we are redefining
our values, driven by a task force of
staff, managment and medical staff.
Based on our key areas of excellence,
leadership and compassion -- We
have taken it up a notch. On the part
of all employees and volunteers: Part
of our mission is to create an environment where the values are lived.” LCB
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certified by the American Board of
Internal Medicine, with a special interest in diabetes and Metabolic
Syndrome. “Dr. Park had referred several patients to me when I worked in
Northwest Portland,” said Dr. Mittan,
“and he and I chatted at the time. I
was not looking, not interested, and in
the meantime I learned how many
people were driving in from the coast.
Hours and hours for a fifteen minute
appointment.” She began working
with Columbia Memorial Hospital in
March, 2004. She says that Dr. Park is
planning a “One-stop-shop” for specialties of ophthalmology, podiatry
and diabetes nutrition and she plans
to move into a suite at his new building. “Hopefully we will be able to provide more extensive services than are
currently offered here. There are certain tests that still have to be referred
to Portland, but the goal is to minimize those trips and move more modern medicine to the coast.”
Susan Nicola
Susan began working as executive assistant to Jim Robertson at
Ocean Beach Hospital in December,
2003. She has recently taken on additional responsibilities. Ocean Beach
Hospital was established in 1934. It
was not until 2004 that the hospital
has begun to organize a foundation.
Susan is now in charge of doing that.
Susan, born and raised in Vancouver,
BC, married and relocated to
Colorado in 1996. She has volunteered and worked in hospitals since
1980. Her husband works in the mental health field and it is his work that
brought the couple to this area. For the
foundation, Susan is responsible for
finding volunteers and setting up the
board,...planning the first events. The
first project of the foundation is to
raise $40,000 toward the purchase a
new anesthesia machine for the OBH
s u rgery department. They
have
a l ready raised $10,000 toward this
vital upgrade of their existing equipment. Contact Susan at 360-642-3181 if
you are interested in volunteering or a
contribution.
Jim Pister, MD
Radiologist James Pister was
born and raised in the Yakima Valley.
He started med school in 1967 and
graduated from the University of
Washington in 1971. He did a straight
medical internship and his residency
in diagnostic radiology with Brooke
Army Medical Center at Fort Sam
Houston in Texas. He is licensed in
Louisiana, Washington and Alaska
and certified by the American Board
of Radiology.. “I have primarily
worked with smaller communities,”
he said. “I have a lot of experience
working with this type of hospital (He
will be working with Ocean Beach
Hospital in Ilwaco) -- mostly in
Alaska. I hadn’t sent out feelers for
this job. I got a call from Mr. Robertson
about a year ago. I don’t know how he
got my name. They were looking for
coverage. Their prior radiologist
wanted to move on. I came down,
talked with him and liked what I saw
at the hospital. We are in the process
of a number of upgrades. This year we
got a new ulatrasound machine, and
will be doing bone densitometry.....
expanding our capabilities. We are
looking at a voice recognition dictation system and digital mammography. The long-term goal would be to
acquire our own MRI -- that is a few
years down the line.”
Stephanie Potts, FNP
Stephanie was born in
Virginia. She met her husband on a
firefighting crew in Reedsport,
O regon and they have been living
there the past fifteen years. She has
been a nurse practitioner for 2.5 years,
after being a public health nurse since
1990. “I got restless,” she said. I needed to get a master’s degree,” which
she did from OHSU School of Nursing
satellite program at Southwestern
Oregon Community College. Her first
employment as a nurse practitioner
was at Waterfall Clinic in North Bend,
Oregon. The family recently moved to
Astoria, where Stephanie has joined
the Coastal Family Health Center.
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Is su e Focus
A Question of Partnerships
Easing the Healthcare Worker Shortage through Education & Training
By Sarah Cullison, Tongue Point Job Corps, Astoria
he President’s High
Growth Job training
Initiative, as implemented by the US
Department of Labor’s Employment
and Training Administration, is
designed to provide a demand-driven
workforce system that ensures no
worker is left behind. It is a strategic
e ffort to pre p a re workers to take
advantage of growing job opportunities in high growth fields.
To no surprise, the health care
industry has emerged as one of the 12
sectors of the economy with projected
high growth. The health care industry
is predicted to add nearly 3.5 million
new jobs between 2002 and 2012, an
i n c rease of 30% (US Bureau of
Statistics). From 2002-2012, 10 of the
20 fastest growing occupations are
concentrated in health services.
One of the largest workforce
issues facing the growing health care
industry is the recruitment and retention of skilled, entry-level workers. In
2000, the national supply of registered
nurses was estimated at 1.89 million,
while the demand was estimated at 2
million, a shortage of 110,000. The
shortage is expected to grow by 12%
through 2010.
Several training and education providers in the North Coast
community are working to provide
the health care workers needed by this
Just one of three
specializations:
Tongue Point
Job Corps
students receive
training in basic
vital signs as
part of their
Medical
Assisting
Vocation.
T
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Point Job Corps Center
demand-driven model. A variety of
education and training programs exist
locally. Tongue Point Job Corps Center
offers Medical Assisting and Nursing
Assisting vocations, while Clatsop
Community
College
offers
a
Registered Nursing degree. In each of
these programs, students have the
opportunity gain certifications that
prepare them for employment in the
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healthcare industry.
A cornerstone of the High
Growth Job Training Initiative is a
focus on partnerships that include
education and training providers
working together to create solutions to
the issues facing industry. The
Initiative suggests partnership and
collaboration may be the keys to
a d d ressing the current health care
worker shortage. “It would be wonderful to gather the current educational resources in the area to collaborate
on a joint healthcare training program,” says Nancy Pyburn, Tongue
Point Job Corps Center Director. “By
working together, we can serve the
most students, address the healthcare
worker shortage and leverage organizational strengths.” ■
_____________________________________
Sarah Cullison is the business and community
liaison for Tongue Point Job Corps in Astoria,
Oregon. She may be reached at 503-325-2131
or via e-mail at [email protected].
Is su e Focus
NAMI: New Support Group Programs
Some classes have already begun, but it is not too late to find out more
ometimes you can
find all kinds of
support and government pro g r a m s
to treat your healthcare needs. On the
other hand, families of those afflicted
with an illness may or may not be so
lucky. The National Alliance for the
Mentally Ill is called the Nation’s
Voice on Mental Illness. The Clatsop
County NAMI chapter is actively
seeking persons who have a child or
adolescent whose life is affected by a
brain disorder. Education classes are
presently being offered in the Astoria
area. “Visions for To m o r row” is a
course for caregivers of children who
have been diagnosed with brain disorders as well as those who exhibit
behavior that strongly suggests such a
diagnosis. The “Visions” curriculum
balances educational materials and
skills training with self-care, emotional support and empowerment. They
are seeking caregivers of children with
ADD/ADHD,
PDD,
Austism,
To u rette’s Disorder, Conduct Diso rd e r, Bipolar, Depression, Eating
Disorders,
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder, Schizophrenia, Panic and
Anxiety Disorders. There is no charge
for the course, which has already
begun. The class will run for eight
weeks and has been designed and
written by experienced caregivers.
Other opportunities, beyond
this special classroom experience
include a meeting the second
Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM at
the Pre Marq Center in Warrenton.
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Here they have speakers and small
discussion groups. There is a Peer-toPeer Support Group which meets the
fourth Thursday of the month (Some
months this varies -- please call first) at
7:00 PM at the Peace Lutheran Church
Social Room in Astoria.
They have a lending library of
helpful materials for affiliate members, publish a newsletter and develop
helpful programs like the “Visions for
tomorrow” and one called “Family to
Family,” a “program for families of
persons experiencing their first mental
break - searching for information, trying to catch up,” said Richard Elfring,
a representative of the local chapter.
“The medical establishment treats the
ill person, but offers very little to the
family. Yet, it is like a three-legged
stool, with medications being just one
leg. Family support and community
care are the other legs.
“People with mental illness
can go on to lead very ordinary lives,
even extraordinary.” To illustrate his
point, Richard hands out a small slip
of paper that includes the names of
famous people who have “...experienced one of the major mental illnesses of Schizophrenia, Manic-Depre s sion and or Major-Depression.” The
list includes: Abraham Lincoln,
Beethoven, Leo Tolstoy, Vincent Van
Gogh, among others. The list is followed by the phrase: “People with
mental illness enrich our lives.” LCB
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ties. He was thinking of somewhere
about an hour north of the dunes, so
this is a bit further.” Community
health still holds a special place in her
heart, however, so she should find a
good fit here.
Joanne Richardson-Tollerton, MD
Joanne was born in Bermuda,
which is where she met her husband,
Wendell. According to her husband,
she had considered medicine long
before he did, and when I asked her
how long she had been in medicine,
she stated, “a long time.” Joanne’s area
of special interest is preventive medicine and she ran a daycare center in
the couple’s home when her children
were small so that she could be at
home with them. When the children
were ready for school, they moved to
the U.S. “We went to med school
together while raising two teenage
daughters,” said Wendell. They lived
in Tillamook almost ten years practicing medicine and then moved to
Brookings, Oregon for just under one
year. “I prefer the north,” she said.,
and they have recently relocated to
Astoria. She and Wendell work as a
team, sharing the hours working at the
Coastal Family Health Center. CFHC
was founded in 2002 and is a 501c3
non-profit, federally-funded community health center. Wendell also works
as the director of the clinic, which is
home to three physicians, two PAs and
new nurse practitioner, Stephanie Potts.
Truman Sasaki, MD
General surgeon Truman
Sasaki was born in Newell, California.
He first decided in college that he
wanted to be a doctor. “It was a
process of elimination,” he said. “My
father wanted me to be a doctor, but I
eliminated all the things he didn’t
want first. I found out I wanted to be a
physician.”
Dr. Sasaki did undergraduate
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work at Dartmouth College, and
received his medical degree from the
University of Oregon. “I started med
school after my junior year. and have
practiced at Portland VA and Medical
School for fifteen years.Then I spent
ten to twelve years at the Washington
Hospital Center in Washington DC.”
He says an epiphany brought him to
Astoria. “I experienced a complicated
medical situation. I promised that if I
was cured, I would go back to Oregon
and find a small community that
needed my services.... a small community with a large number of low
income patients. I was cured and good
to my word, here I am. I grew up in
Portland and had been fishing
here...we vacationed in Long Beach.
My wife now runs my office
for me. She has been a nurse for 30
years, formerly working for the Red
Cross. This is the first time we have
worked together.... we have the same
goals.” Dr. Sasaki will be working
with both Ocean Beach and Columbia
Memorial hospitals.
health education. Dr. Saunders will be
practicing general surgery with Dr.
Scott Gardner at Tillamook Medical
Associates.
Wendell Tollerton, MD
“I had a career as a high
school teacher for 17 years,“ he began,
”then I worked for a few months as a
computer programmer, but the company went belly-up. While I was
between jobs our oldest daughter
needed an operation we couldn’t
afford. In my mind I began to toy with
the idea of becoming a doctor. I went
back into teaching for four more years
and applied to med school -- I got in!
At 40 years old I started med school.”
Dr. Tollerton graduated medical
school at the University of California
at Davis, as did his wife of 33 years,
Joanne Richardson-Tollerton.
Sandra Werner, MD
Dr. Werner received her medical degree and completed a residency
program in obstetrics and gynecology
in Porto Alegra, Brazil. She practiced
as an OB/GYN physician in Brazil
until she relocated to the United
States, where she complete a traditional surgery internship at Oregon Health
Sciences University. She completed
her residency in family medicine at
Providence Milwaukie Hospital. “I
enjoy being invited into the lives of
my patients and getting to know their
families,” she said.” I want to support
my patients by working with them in
a partnership to help them achieve the
best level of health possible.” Dr.
Werner has special interest in working
with women and elderly patients. She
is fluent in Spanish & Portuguese. LCB
Greg Saunders, MD
Dr. Greg Saunders has recently moved his family and surgery practice to Tillamook from Nigeria, Africa.
Dr. Saunders is the son of missionary
parents, and his father is also a doctor.
Dr. Saunders was born in Karachi,
Pakistan, and when he was three years
old his family moved to Ethiopia. He
attended high school at Laurelwood
Academy, in Gaston, Oregon. He completed a BS in Biology at Walla Walla,
College, in Washington and medical
school at Loma Linda University in
California. He spent his residency in
surgery in Pontiac, Michigan and was
active in the Air Force at Grand Forks,
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at Laurelwood Academy and she is a
re g i s t e red dietician with a masters
degree in nutrition. They are very
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Karen Douek, MD.......................503/292-7704
Donald Froom, MD.....................503/292-7721
Francis Kelly, MD.......................503/256-0877
Thomas Kennefick, MD..............503/292-7704
Edward Kuehnel, MD.................503/256-0877
Shukri Osman, MD.....................503/256-0877
Neurology
Edie Glantz, M.D........................503/338-3803
Obstetrics and/or Gynecology
Patricia Boullie, CNM. ...............503/338-7595
Tzu Sung Chiang, MD................503/325-5135
Terri Cohen, CNM......................503/397-0471
Robert Holland, MD....................503/338-7595
Chris Kenland, CNM..................503/397-0471
Julie Passon, CNM....................503/397-0471
Fred Roesener, MD....................503/842-8877
Mitchell Strauss, MD..................503/717-7556
Oncology
Gerald Gibbs, MD......................503/640-3687
Ophthalmology/Optometry/Eye Care
Martin Balish, MD.......................503/292-0848
Patrick J. Chan, MD...................503/738-5571
Laura M. Gianelli, OD................503/325-4401
Daniel Glantz, MD......................503/338-3803
Jennifer Lyons, MD....................888/315-7476
Walter R. Receconi, OD.............503/325-4401
Ronald Scaman, OD..................360/642-2710
Steven C. Scruggs, OD..............503/325-4641
Vasiliki Stoumbos, MD................800/7897753
John A. Topinka, Jr., MD............503/738-5571
Darren Thorsen, OD...................360/642-3214
Michael Warner, MD...................360/642-3214
Suzanne Zamberlan, OD...........360/642-3214
Orthopedics/Orthopedic Surgery
Russell Keizer, MD.....................503/325-2448
Sarah Lampton, MD...................503/842-5564
Jay. McDonnell, MD...................360/642-3181
Stan Neitling, MD.......................503/842-4551
Gabriel Salzman, MD.................503/717-7556
Ronald Teed, MD.......................503/842-5564
Pathology
Edward R. Cook, MD.................503/215-6129
Michael Moore, MD....................503/215-6129
Donald Schafer, MD...................503/215-6129
Oliva UY, MD..............................503/215-6129
Pediatrics
Richard Ames, DO.....................503/397-4449
Naiyar Azhar, MD.......................503/397-4449
D. Alan Carnahan, MD...............503/861-7777
Barbara Herdman, PNP..............503/842-5546
Ramchander Madhvararapu, MD.503/325-7337
Podiatry
Mark Ellis, DPM..........................503/325-0045
Lisa Lipe, DPM...........................503/538-0800
Gerald Peterson, DPM...............503/717-7556
Nancy Ray, DPM........................503/325-5655
Psychiatry/Pain Mgt./Psychology
Brandon Adams, MD..................360/642-8064
Ashok Jayaram, MD...................503/292-7005
Navnit Kaur Jayaram, MD..........503/292-7005
Radiology/MRI
Keith Bernstein, MD...................503/842-4444
Randy Bivens, MD.....................503/842-4444
Jeff Blanche, MD........................503/717-7000
Jim Pister, MD............................360/642-3181
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Hugh Sabahi, MD.......................503/325-2559
George Young, MD.....................503/325-2559
Reflexology
Susan Davis Wood.....................360/875-6668
Speech Therapy
Debra Hall, MA,CCC-SLP...........503/717-7788
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Philip Alexander, MD..................503/738-5571
Edouard Duret, MD....................360/642-3747
Ali Dowlatdad, MD, ....................503/325-9597
Scott Gardner, MD, FACS..........503/842-5546
Lyle Mohr, MD............................503/842-4033
Truman Sasaki, MD...................503/338-5353
Charles Starr, MD.......................503/338-7554
Greg Saunders, MD, FACS........503/842-5546
Lee Swanstrom, MD...................503/325-9597
Robert Wayne, MD, FACS.........503/325-9597
Urology
George Dueker, MD...................503/717-7556
Michael Kaempf,MD...................503/397-0471
David Leibel, DO........................503/325-7888
James Pappas, MD....................503/231-3355
Main Hospital Numbers/Websites
Columbia Memorial....................503/325-4321
www.columbiamemorial.org
Ocean Beach Hospital...............360/642-3181
Providence Seaside...................503/717-7000
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Is su e Focus
Clatsop Community College Expanding
New facilities, New Services, New personnel on many levels
ust last month
Clatsop Community
College held the
open house for
their new south
county center across Highway 101
from Seaside High School. They have
hired a new director for the center,
Reed Daugherity, whom we have profiled on our website at www.lcbiz.
com. This month, re p re s e n t a t i v e s
from the college are working hard to
unveil new facilities for the college
department that serves the healthcare
community: the nursing program.
Clatsop, the oldest community college in the state of Oregon, was
established in 1958. It has offered a
nursing program since 1983, graduating its first class of nursing students in
1985. The program averages 45 students per year and that number is
increasing, said college president Dr.
Greg Hamann.
Audrey Knippa, director of
health occupations since 2003, is very
excited about her new space which
will occupy almost 3,000 square feet in
what was formerly the Art II building.
Greg Dorcheus, physical plant director and project manager for the college
is overseeing the construction.
Students for the nursing program will move their operations from
what was a combined classroom and
workshop space into two floors with
J
Old and New: The inset photo below shows the former
cramped quarters of the Clatsop Community College
Nursing Program. The illustration to the left shows the
new space for the program, complete with a separate class room. Columbia Memorial Hospital has just donated four
beds for the new space. Audrey Knippa, director of the pro gram, had this to say. “Once they graduate, the majority of
our students stay in the two counties (Clatsop and
Tillamook). Oftentimes they have been people who are
starting second careers or who hadn’t worked for many
years - that has been the trend in the past 3 years - We are
recruiting. We are having more young people come to
Clatsop Community College - it is a financially viable way
to get your nursing
degree...a lot less
money than going
to a four year
school. It is a way to
leave the communi ty as well as a way
to stay here - we
have both now.”
Illustration provided by Clatsop Community College. Inset photo by Lesle Palmeri.
bed space for five “patients” as well as
a full-size classroom pre-set for
numerous computer stations in the
future. “We really needed the space,”
said Audrey.
“We had the opportunity to
do it,” added Dr. Hamann.
The college offers an associate
degree nursing (AND - RN program)
and a practical nurse certificate program and applications may still be
accepted until Friday, April 1, 2005.
Those accepted into the programs will
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Is su e Focus
Providence Theraphies and Home Health Moves
C o o rdinating departments now housed in cozy quarters for more eff i c i e n c y
rovidence Seaside
Hospital
on
Wahanna Road is
bursting at the
seams. Even with extensive remodeling and the addition of new office
space, the administration continues to
look for places to expand. Just last
month the hospital completed another
expansion -- off the Wahanna Road
campus. They have opened a 5,000
square foot facility in Gearhart which
is now home to Home Health, as well
as Occupational, Physical and Speech
Therapy. Martha Barstow, manager of
the programs housed here, came from
the Portland area under two years ago
after working with OHSU. She has a
masters in business and is a registered
nurse. She grew up in Ohio and in
high school took her first job as a nurses aid. While living in Massachusetts
she came to the west coast to visit family. “I fell in love with the northwest
and moved out here in 1995,” she said.
She took over the job as manager after a restructuring within the
hospital. “I made sense for me to bring
on the rehab services,” she continued.
“The disciplines in occupational,
physical and speech therapy are so
similar. They work back and forth.
They see patients in all areas. It is a
good fit to have the same manager for
both departments.
“We started talking about the
move out here in late winter,” Martha
continued. “There will be some
remodeling and expansion at the hospital, and since we are both (meaning
the three Therapies and Home Health)
services that don’t need to be located
at the hospital, it made sense for us to
be off campus. In fact, a lot of Home
Health services are located away from
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Happy About their New Digs: Stacy Doty, left, stands in the middle of the ADL room,
which stands for Activies of Daily Living. “This new room helps us teach joint preservation or
joing protection techniques, “ she said. Leo Bauer demonstrates some of the new equipment
available to patients. The new center even has a special double-size treatment room set aside for
children so that patients as early as age five can spread out...while not disturbing other patients.
the hospital.”
Internal finish-out of the space
was completed in November, but the
services did not actually relocate into
the new space until the beginning of
January. There are 8 (with a potential
of 9) therapy rooms with beds or
tables and curtains for privacy, as well
as a large common room containing
workout equipment, and a glassed-in
“bullpen” for the therapists’ off i c e
space. This enables them to see the
patients during workouts, even if the
patient is currently working with a
different therapist. The space has the
traditional equipment of stairs to
climb and parallel bars for walking,
but also features new equipment that
was unable to be accomodated in the
old cramped quarters at the hospital.
“This is great,” said Leo
Bauer, who has been a physical therapist for more than 17 years. “When I
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I ss ue Focus
Hospital Info rmation Chart
Vital statistics and information in brief on major regional healthcare centers
elow you will find a
brief overview of
the major hospitals
serving our area.
B
Please let the hospital representatives
know if this and the other information
contained in this issue is helpful to
you. Please also do not hesitate to
advise us of any corrections or clarifications to the information we have
presented on the healthcare community. Thank you. LCB
Hospital
Columbia Memorial
Ocean Beach
Providence Seaside
Tillamook Co. General
Year Established
1926
1934
Early 1900s
1950
Planetree Affiliate
Western Wa. Rural
Hospital Alliance
Providence Health
System
Adventist Health
2111 Exchange Street
Astoria, OR 97103
174 First Avenue N.
Ilwaco
725 Wahanna Road
Seaside, OR 97138
1000 Third Street
Tillamook, OR 97141
Same
P. O. Box H
Ilwaco, WA 98624
Same
Same
Main Telephone #
503-325-4321
360-642-3181
503-717-7000
503-842-4444
Toll Free #
800-962-2407
800-611-1875 (WA only)
None
800-356-0460
Main Fax #
503-325-4042
360-642-6309
503-717-7505
503-842-3062
providence.org
/northcoast
tcgh.org
Regional Affiliation?
Physical Address
Mailing Address
Website (www.)
columbiamemorial.org oceanbeachhospital.org
# Licensed Beds
49
Staffed 15
34
49
Trauma Level
# Full Time Staff
3
350
4
120
No Designation
240
3
325
Visiting Specialists
37
8
10
7
Ave. Mo. ER Visits
1185
600-750
650-850
1000
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Providence cont.
MEDIVAN
WHEELCHAIR TRANSPORTATION
first started we were working in two
patient rooms in the hospital. Then we
moved into an area in the basement....nice but it didn’t allow more
than two therapists to work. We have
grown....that’s what it amounts to.
“Now we have two (therapists) doing outpaitent and hoping to
have three as soon as possible. Also,
one person stays at the hospital and
one working Home Health.”
“The first thing,” he continued, “is that we now don’t have to
wait for a room to work in. There is
greater privacey for the patients and a
bigger gym with more equipment. We
also have occupational therapy in the
same area. They used to be down the
hall. Now we can all work together
and it is nice to be able to do that. We
often
work
with
the
same
patients...not at the same time...but we
can collaborate.”
Occupational therapist Stacy
Doty, COTA-L has been working with
Providence for almost six years. She
had this to say about her new work
environment. “It is new and org anized and spacious and everybody
can work together. We cover all areas,
ACU inpatient, home health, outpatients, etc. “
Martha added, “We are looking into pool therapy (to be held jointly with Sunset Park and Recreation
District) and other ways to expand
our offerings. Now we can do classes
and evening support groups. It is nice
to have our own space.” LCB
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Contact: Martha Barstow, manager
Address: 3621 Hwy 101, Gearhart
Mailing: 725 S Wahanna Road
Seaside, OR 97138
Telephone: 503-717-7788
Fax: 503-717-7777
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