Happy New Year from Behavioral Health, which provides many different services to Tribal members
By Jen Metcalf, Women’s TLC Coordinator
Happy New Year! We ended 2016 in
a good way at the Behavioral Health (BH)
program by taking clients to the NARA
Sobriety Pow-Wow in Portland, Ore. Lots
of changes took place for BH in 2016.
Welcome back to Ashliegh Ramirez
and congratulations on your college
graduation!
Some things to look forward to in
the next few months are the monthly
CEDARR meetings. These meetings
are held on the first Wednesday of every
month from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the sec-
ond floor conference room (Shell room)
at the Siletz Community Health Clinic.
Lunch is provided.
Our next meeting is on Feb. 1. Topics
of discussion will include goals that were
completed in 2016 and looking at goals
for 2017. Don McDonald from PAADA
(Partnership Against Alcohol and Drug
Abuse) will speak about drug-free com-
munities and a possible mentoring grant.
Prevention efforts are consistent at
Siletz Valley School. Project Alert is an
evidence-based curriculum that is used
in grades six through eight.
Other upcoming events from Preven-
tion inlcude the Eradication March, Daugh-
Attention Siletz Contract Health-eligible
Tribal members!
If you receive Contract Health Services approval to see providers/facilities
outside of a Tribal clinic, please be sure to inform them at your visit that you have
Contract Health Services as a form of payment.
We have seen a number of patients billed for services from their medical/
dental/optical providers because the patient did not inform the office that they
have Contract Health Services.
If you have primary insurance (through employment, Medicare, Medicaid,
etc.), we would be secondary to the primary insurance.
If you fail to provide this information to your providers and they don’t bill us
in a timely manner, you could be liable for the charges. Please let your providers
know that they can submit claims for payment to:
ters of Tradition (White Bison) and many
other prevention best practices. Watch the
newspaper for additional information.
Substance abuse outpatient coun-
selors are steadily serving our members
daily. We have multiple weekly outpatient
groups, including Relapse Prevention,
Education, Women’s Group, Life Skills
and White Bison’s Wellbriety.
Our Tribal Transitional Living Centers
are filling up quickly. A waiting list currently
exists for the women’s house and there’s
limited availability at the men’s house.
Positive Indian Parenting started on Jan.
29 and runs from 9-11 a.m. at the Behav-
ioral Health office. This is facilitated by
Angela Ramirez, Wylie Stokes and myself.
Our mental health therapists have been
busy serving both youth and adult clients.
Rachel serves the Portland and Salem areas
and Mary-Beth serves the Siletz areas.
They are busy working on a contract
for after-hours mental health assistance
for Tribal members when Tribal offices
are closed. We will provide additional
information as we receive it.
For any Behavioral Health appoint-
ments or information, please contact our
data coordinator, Jacob Reid, at 541-444-
8286 or toll-free at 800-600-5599.
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between providers leads to errors and
delays in health care.
If you are truly unsatisfied with your
PCP, we ask that you meet with one of our
case managers, Cherity Bloom-Miller,
RN, or Jesse Hodges. During this meeting,
Siletz Contract Health
P.O. Box 320
Siletz, OR 97380
you can voice your concerns so we can
assist you in mediating these concerns
in order to assure consistent health care.
If we are unable to resolve this issue to
your satisfaction, we will assist you in tran-
sitioning your health care to another team.
Siletz Community Health Clinic medical staff and team members
Reminder
The Siletz Clinic would like to remind parents and guardians that if you send
your child to an appointment with someone other than yourself or other legal
guardian, you will need to sign a Release of Information.
This gives permission for another person to bring your child to appointments
and for your child’s provider to discuss the child’s care with them.
If you have any questions, please call 541-444-1030 or 800-648-0449.
Thank you!
In order to provide easy access and continuity of care, we are providing medical
staff’s direct phone numbers. Please keep in mind we are not always at our desk, so if
you need to speak with someone urgently the best thing to do is call the main clinic
line at 541-444-1030 and ask reception for help.
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Siletz Community Health Clinic Providers
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Dental
Lisa Taylor, Medical Director
Dr. Jeremy Vistica, Dental Director
Dr. Stewart Tuft, Physician (Family Medicine)
Dr. Gordon Stanger, Dentist
Dr. Fred Chavez, Physician (Family Medicine)
Teresa Carpenter, Dental Hygienist
Dr. Jalien Dorris, Physician (Family Medicine)
Dr. Stephen Burns, Physician (Pediatrics)
Optometry
Dr. Sean Rash, Physician (Pediatrics)
Dr. Lorene Stanger, Optometrist
William Fisher, Physician Assistant
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Team Taylor: Lisa Taylor, FNP; Nurse Joyce Dukes, 541-444-9602; and Medical
Assistant Laura Bremner-Duarte, 541-444-9665
Team Chavez: Dr. Fred Chavez; Nurse William Kobialka, 541-444-9661; and
Medical Assistant Melissa Strickler, 541-444-9608
Team Dorris: Dr. Jalien Dorris; Nurse Joy McNamara, 541-444-9628; and Medical
Assistant Trudy Rector, 541-444-9634
Team Fisher: William Fisher, PA; Nurse John Kosydar, 541-444-9671; and Medi-
cal Assistant Jeff Fuller, 541-444-9612
Team Peds: Stephen Burns, MD, and Sean Rash, MD; Medical Assistant Dawn
Cornejo, 541-444-9684
Case Manager and Nursing Supervisor: Cherity Bloom-Miller, RN, 541-444-9610
Medical Social Worker: Jessie Hodges, 541-444-9607
Referral Specialist and Coordinator: Selina Rilatos, 541-444-9691
Lab Technician: Katherine Daniel, 541-444-9616
Diabetic Educator: Chris Sherrod, 541-444-9647
On-Call Medical and Lab Assistant: Gabriella Weiss-Vickers, 541-444-9688
Welcome to your new Patient Centered Medical Home!
Siletz Community Health Clinic
Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
We’ll do everything possible to not only
provide you with quality health care, but
also to involve you in decisions about your
health, and participate with you in
developing and maintaining a healthy
lifestyle for the future.
Siletz Community Health Clinic
offers comprehensive health
care to ALL residents
of Lincoln County.
We accept Private Insurance,
Medicare & Medicaid
Call the Clinic for more information
541-444-1030
200 Gwee-Shut Rd • Siletz, OR 97380
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February 2017
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