Wednesday, March 9, 2022 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Outlaws
Partners In Care names New CEO
will have
small team
on tennis
courts
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
The boys tennis squad cur-
rently has four players, and
all are fairly inexperienced.
The team will welcome any
new players who would like
to join and learn the game.
There will be no cuts, and
everyone is guaranteed to
earn a varsity letter.
Senior Barry Jaxon and
juniors Matthew Riehle and
Zenus Ortega return as third-
year players, but their tennis
experience has been limited
due to COVID. All three
joined the team brand-new
to the game in 2020, but after
two weeks of practice the
entire season was cancelled.
In 2021, the season was lim-
ited to six weeks, but players
were able to put their skills to
use in matches and the district
tournament.
This year, Jaxon, Riehle,
and Ortega will get a full sea-
son of practice and matches,
so Coach Carl Click expects
to see a great deal of improve-
ment from all three.
<Early on in practice I9m
impressed with their muscle
memory from last season,=
said Click. <There is not a lot
of dropoff.=
Ben Skidmore (freshman)
joins the squad as a first-
time tennis player, which is
not unusual for Sisters High
School.
Click told The Nugget that
over the years the tennis team
has had many student athletes
want to try a new sport in the
spring and just have some fun.
<Those players usually get
a lot better in a hurry,= said
Click. <They may not win a
lot of matches, but you can
certainly see great strides in
their skills, and that makes
the game enjoyable.=
Since the team has lim-
ited numbers, players will
most likely play twice in each
match, both singles and dou-
bles. Click noted that play-
ers will also play in different
doubles combinations.
The team will kick off
their season at Ridgeview on
Monday, March 14.
CORRECTION
Cathy and Sam Hernandez
are the previous owners of
Central Bark. Last week9s
story <New Central Bark
owner cares for pets in Sisters,
(The Nugget, March 3, page
13) used an incorrect last name
for one of the prior owners.
Partners In Care, provider
of hospice care in the Central
Oregon region, announces
the appointment of Greg
Hagfors as its new chief
executive officer, according
to its President and Board
Chair Suzanne Lafky.
<Our board of directors
engaged in a thoughtful pro-
cess to fill the lead staff role
following the retirement of
Eric Alexander, who served
the nonprofit organization
for 16 years,= said Lafky.
<We are gratified that Greg
Hagfors has accepted our
offer of employment and
will officially be installed on
April 11.=
Lafky, who chairs the
seven-member policy gov-
ernance board at Partners In
Care, expressed confidence
that Hagfors will continue
to position the organization
as a leader in the care of
people with chronic illness
or are nearing the end of life.
<Greg has been a senior-
level health care executive
for over 25 years with expe-
rience in a variety of settings
in Minnesota, Montana, and
Oregon.= His interests are
in strategy development and
deployment, operational per-
formance enhancement, and
leadership development, she
said. <We are looking for-
ward to his leadership in all
aspects of our organization.=
Greg Hagfors is a famil-
iar name to many in Central
Oregon both as a Bend resi-
dent and having served as
chief executive officer of the
Bend Memorial Clinic (now
Summit Health) from 2011
to 2016. In addition to help-
ing the clinic grow, he was
involved as a board mem-
ber and chaired the finance
committee of the Central
Oregon Health Council for
nearly three years. In 2016,
he became managing direc-
tor of Castling Partners, pro-
viding lead services offer-
ings designed to support
and enhance ongoing per-
formance improvement of
health-system and physician-
owned medical practices.
Prior to his move to
Oregon to join Bend
Memorial Clinic, Hagfors
w a s t h e S e n i o r Vi c e
President 3 Healthcare for
Paley Dixon, where he
led the firm9s mergers and
acquisitions activities for the
health care sector. He also
worked with other business
sectors as an advisor/consul-
tant for buyers and sellers of
companies.
Hagfors was born and
raised in Minnesota. He
received his Bachelor of
Science degree at North
Dakota State University and
earned his MBA in Business/
Managerial Economics from
Minnesota State University
in Mankato, Minnesota.
<I am excited to have the
opportunity to work with
the team at Partners In Care.
Partners In Care has an out-
standing team of employees
that has a patient-centered
culture that effectively col-
laborates with other provid-
ers throughout the region to
enhance the patient9s experi-
ence,= said Hagfors.
Partners In Care is a
local, independent, 501(c)
(3) nonprofit organization
serving a 10,000-square-
mile region of Central
Oregon. It was founded in
1979 as an all-volunteer
hospice known as Friends
of Hospice. The organiza-
tion became Partners In Care
in 2009 through the merger
of the two largest hospice
and home health providers.
Six integrated service lines
include hospice care, pro-
vided in the patient9s home
PHOTO PROVIDED
Greg Hagfors.
or care facility; Hospice
House inpatient facility;
home health provided in the
patient9s home or care facil-
ity; outpatient palliative vare
consultations; a nonmedical
case management program
called Transitions; and grief
support for adults and chil-
dren experiencing a loss.
www.partnersbend.org.
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