Siletz Community Health Clinic
Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Siletz Community Health Clinic
offers comprehensive health
care to ALL residents
of Lincoln County.
We accept Private Insurance,
Medicare & Medicaid
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.
Call the Clinic for more information
Patient portal now available at Siletz Clinic
The Siletz Community Health
Clinic is thrilled to offer you a new
feature – The Patient Portal! This is a
convenient, secure online tool available
24/7 so you can:
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Exchange secure messages with
your medical team
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Access your health record
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Search patient educational material
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View visit summary documents
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Send your health records to other
providers
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Attach your dependents’ medical
information to your portal account
Parents and legal guardians can
attach minor’s medical information to
their portal account. To do so, the par-
ent/legal guardian must send a message
request from their portal account or
come into the clinic.
If you have any questions regarding
the enrollment process, call our patient
care coordinators at 541-444-1030 or
800-648-0449, Monday through Friday
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
541-444-1030
200 Gwee-Shut Rd • Siletz, OR 97380
Siletz Community Health Clinic Providers
Medical
Dental
Dr. Jeremy Vistica, Dental Director
Lisa Taylor, Medical Director
Dr. Gordon Stanger, Dentist
Dr. Jalien Dorris, Physician (Family Medicine)
Teresa Carpenter, Dental Hygienist
Dr. Stephen Burns, Physician (Pediatrics)
Alison Noble, Dental Hygienist
Dr. Sean Rash, Physician (Pediatrics)
Tami Martin, (Family Nurse Practitioner)
Optometry
On-call
Dr. Lorene Stanger, Optometrist
Erin Carrington, (Physician Assistant Certified)
Siletz Community Dental Clinic
Contact the Siletz Community Dental Clinic if you experience dental pain or a
dental emergency. Staff will do everything they can to see you as soon as possible.
Morning check-in time is Monday-Thursday from 8:30-9 a.m. and Friday from
10:30-11 a.m. Afternoon check-in time is Monday-Friday from 1:30-2 p.m.
Change in Siletz Clinic check-in times
The Siletz Clinic asks all patients with appointments to check in 15 minutes
prior to your scheduled appointment time. This allows for any necessary paper-
work to be completed prior to your appointment with your provider. Thank you!
Is your child dealing with a toxic burden?
By Nancy Ludwig, MS, RDN, LD,
Siletz Tribal Head Start Nutrition
As part of my role as consultant
nutritionist to Siletz Tribal Head Start, I
offer information for families. Children
have it rough these days when it comes
to toxic exposure. Unfortunately, part of
Tribal trauma includes toxic exposures
from unwanted pollution. Thank you to the
brave Native voices that are speaking out
on environmental concerns for the good
of all peoples!
In addition to the environmental bur-
den we face, the impact of toxic exposure
is even greater for small children due to
body size. I recently heard an interview
with Elisa Song, M.D., holistic pediatri-
cian, who explained that children who
have constipation, dark circles under their
eyes and/or chronic rash are likely experi-
encing a toxic burden (much like when the
garbage disposal stops working).
To support children, their parents and
the whole community, Dr. Song shares the
following five points: It is important to get
the right stuff in, to keep the wrong stuff
out, nurture the gut-brain connection,
prioritize life and chill out. I’ve added
relevant Tribal issues to support and per-
sonalize this important message.
Getting the right stuff in includes
a diet rich in whole unprocessed foods,
organic foods or at least choosing organic
for the produce listed as the dirty dozen by
the Environmental Working Group.
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Eat colorful foods, healthy fats and
uncontaminated wild or free-range pro-
tein. Be sure to get adequate omega-3
essential fatty acids from fish oil that is
free from heavy metals, Vitamin D3 and
magnesium.
The list of produce that is necessary
to choose organic because they have the
highest pesticide residue includes the fol-
lowing – strawberries, spinach, nectarines,
apples, peaches, pears, cherries, grapes,
celery, tomatoes, sweet bell peppers and
potatoes.
Drink enough clean water! A rule of
thumb on how much water to drink for
adults and older children is: Take your
weight in pounds, divide it in half then
strive to drink that number in ounces
per day.
For example, a body weight of 128
pounds divided in half is 64, with the
recommendation to drink 64 ounces of
water per day. This is eight cups per day
at 8 fluid ounces per cup.
For young children, the calculation is
more complicated. Children age 4-8 are
encouraged to drink at least five glasses
of water per day. Size of the child is a
factor (in addition to weather, personal
health, etc.).
Keeping the wrong stuff out means
avoiding pesticides in foods, pollutants
in water, artificial flavors, preservatives,
and dyes, heavy metals, plastics and other
endocrine disruptors (chemicals that
appear to cause early puberty, thyroid and
other hormone problems).
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Again, be sure the water you encour-
age your children to drink is clean and
not polluted. Furthermore, the challenge
is that not all wild foods forage on/in
uncontaminated land and water.
Nurture the gut-brain connection
is based on the idea that the happy child
has a healthy, happy gut. Fermented foods
are recommended as well as probiotic
supplements.
When the gut is unhealthy, often there
are sugar cravings, brain fog, tummy
aches, diarrhea, constipation, gas or
bloating.
Food sensitivities can also make your
child sick with a wide range of symptoms,
including abdominal pain, gas, diarrhea,
constipation, bloating, brain fog, fatigue,
irritability, anxiety, depression, behavioral
problems, insomnia, headaches, joint
pains, eczema, asthma – pretty much
anything.
The most likely culprits are gluten,
dairy and sugar. Additional common
problems are found with soy, eggs, corn,
citrus, peanuts and artificial dyes/flavors/
preservatives/sweeteners.
Prioritizing a healthy lifestyle is a
necessity for children. The acronym SOS
helps us to remember: S-Slow down,
O-Outside time, S-Sleep.
A hurried pace is stressful for us all,
including children. Outside time in nature
can relieve stress and help restore our
center. Sleep is the time when our bod-
ies repair and detoxify. Without adequate
sleep, we cannot maintain our health or
recover from toxic burden.
Chill out acknowledges that we can’t
“make” our children happy, but we can
teach them how to “create” happiness
for themselves by learning to overcome
obstacles, being proud of success and
learning from failures, and embracing
optimism and hope.
Mindfulness tools are invaluable for
children to learn how to help themselves
and gain confidence to handle stressors
coming their way. Celebration is also an
effective boost toward happiness.
As I state so often, I am pleased to
notice that the dietary recommendations
are, in fact, the same principles demon-
strated when embracing traditional foods
(and nutritional equivalents).
As the Head Start consultant nutri-
tionist, I am available to support families
by discussing nutrition-related concerns
via telephone. There is no charge for Head
Start families. Again, I express my deep
gratitude to the brave Native people who
are responding to the need for environ-
mental justice and protection.
Additional resources
Dr. Elisa Song, M.D., Holistic Pedia-
trician: healthykidshappykids.com; Face-
book: fb.com/DrElisaSongMD
Environmental Working Group: ewg.
org/foodnews/dirty_dozen_list.php#.
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