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Jay White with Jay White Painting walks out of the new after hours clinic under construction next to Bay Clinic on Monday morning.
After-hours urgent care Bay Area will soon have several choices of facilities BY EMILY THORNTON The World
“It’ll be a huge lift to our
SOUTH COAST — Those who have wished for urgent care facilities in Coos County will soon have it granted. Area clinics will begin offering after-hours services in the next few months to meet the need for urgent care centers. The additions were discussed at a recent meeting of the coordinated care organization for Coos and Curry counties, said Phil Greenhill. He is the executive officer of the local CCO, Western Oregon Advanced Health. Those adding medical services include Bay Area Hospital, Bay Clinic and North Bend Medical Center. Others may add clinics, too, he said. “It’s gonna be great,” Greenhill said. The after-hours services for those ages 18 and under offered at Bay Clinic had been advantageous, he said. Now, it has plans to include all ages. “It’ll be a huge lift to our community,” Greenhill said. “There’s nowhere to get treatment after-hours, but the ER.”
community. There’s nowhere to get treatment after-hours, but the ER.”
Bay Area Hospital Plans for Bay Area Hospital include adding an “express care” area in part of the emergency room, said Paul Janke. He said the emergency room had seen an influx of patients during the first weeks of the year. He hoped it would take some burden off the emergency room. He wasn’t sure when the express care would open. “We’re trying to minimize ER usage,” Janke said. “It’s a very expen-
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sive place for care.”
Bay Clinic Plans for Bay Clinic include remodeling an old pharmacy adjacent to it into an after-hours care center. The facility, about 1,800 square feet, will have four exam rooms and a waiting room. There will be two doctors and two or three receptionists said Dan Walsh, director for the clinic. “We feel there was a need for this service,” Walsh said. “We’re excited about bringing this service to the area.” Walsh said the clinic likely will start with hours similar to the current pediatrics after-hours center, 5:30 to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday. He said they’d evaluate which hours to remain open over time. The $100,000 job is slated to be completed mid-February, Walsh said.
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COOS BAY — Concussion awareness has been a hotbutton issue this year in the world of sports, so it makes sense that a Miss Oregon contestant may find it to be an interesting platform. But, for the current Miss Oregon, it is a topic that goes beyond just being interesting. Allison Cook is the 67th Miss Oregon, but she may well be the first that is serving her year while still suffering the effects of a series of sports-related brain injuries. “I’ve earned four concussions in my athletic career,” Cook admitted during a recent phone interview. It has left her with a whole list of side-effects, including daily headaches. The 19-year-old is a junior at Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, where she has played on the Hustlin’ Owls volleyball team. “I’ve seen so many athletes affected,” she said, but is quick to add that part of her message is that brain injury awareness is not just for athletes. Even relatively minor car accidents, she says, can leave someone with a serious
add an after-hours clinic this spring. The project, which began at the end of December, should be completed by spring, said Susan Molzahn, human resources director. There are no afterhours plans yet at its other locations. The current walk-in clinic sees about 26 patients during its 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday hours, but can’t get to everyone, Molzahn said. “I’m excited about it,” said Amanda Taylor, NBMC’s marketing director. “It’s going to be a positive change for our community at least.” The new clinic will be straight ahead — where doctors’ offices are now — as patients walk in the main entrance. It will have six exam rooms, with room to expand. They’ve already hired a manager, Shari Koizumi, a registered nurse who’s been at North Bend Medical Center in the day surgery center for two years. Molzahn said they’ll start with one physician and possibly add another, if needed. They’ll also have about two registered nurses or nursing assistants per doctor. She didn’t know how much the remodel will cost or the exact size yet, since they’re still in their planning process. Molzahn and Taylor said they’d done their research for the new clinic by visiting other clinics and paying attention to who they’d hire. “We want to do it with a purpose,” Molzahn said.
CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of pages of documents showing how the Archdiocese of Chicago handled the sexual abuse of children by priests will be made public Tuesday, providing the broadest look yet into the details of what the archdiocese knew and did — or didn’t do — about the scandal. The archdiocese, one of the largest and most influential in the U.S., handed over last week more than 6,000 pages of documents to victims’ attorneys, who said they will show the archdiocese concealed abuse for decades, including moving priests to new parishes where they molested again. The disclosures involving 30 priests were made as part of legal settlements with abuse victims, and are similar to disclosures made in other dioceses in the U.S. in recent years that showed how the Roman Catholic Church shielded priests and failed for many years to report child sex abuse to authorities. Chicago officials said most of the abuse occurred before 1988 and none after 1996. Debra Brian, a 24-year-old Catholic from Chicago, had not yet seen or heard what was included in the documents, but said Sunday that the church is doing the right thing by acknowledging what occurred.
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PORTLAND — Mia Prickett’s ancestor was a leader of the Cascade Indians along the Columbia River and was one of the chiefs who signed an 1855 treaty that helped establish the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde in Oregon. But the Grand Ronde now want to disenroll Prickett and 79 relatives, and possibly hundreds of other tribal members, because they no longer satisfy new enrollment requirements. Prickett’s family is fighting the effort, part of what some experts have dubbed the “dis-
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enrollment epidemic” — a rising number of dramatic clashes over tribal belonging that are sweeping through more than a dozen states, from California to Michigan. “In my entire life, I have always known I was an Indian. I have always known my family’s history, and I am so proud of that,” Prickett said. She said her ancestor chief Tumulth was unjustly accused of participating in a revolt and was executed by the U.S. Army — and hence didn’t make it onto the tribe’s roll, which is now a membership requirement. The prospect of losing her membership is
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Mia Prickett holds her Confederated Tribe of Grande Ronde enrollment card along with a recent notice of potential disenrollment from the tribe in Portland. Prickett’s ancestor, Tumulth, a leader of the Cascade Indians along the Columbia River, was one of the chiefs who signed an 1855 treaty that helped establish the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde in Oregon.
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