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About Newsletter. (Siletz, OR) 19??-1981 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1980)
PHS - INDIAN HEALTH CENTER - CHEMAWA INDIAN SCHOOL DENTAL FUNDS are now available for routine dental care, upper and lower dentures and lower denture relines. Other dental work must be considered on a case by case basis. Call 1-800-452-7823 and ask for the Contract Health Service clerk when you make an appointment with the dentist. When you have your DENTAL APPOINTMENT, THE DENTIST IS TO DO ONLY AN EXAM AND X-RAY, THEN THE DENTIST WILL SEND OUR FORM TO OREGON DENTAL SERVICE for pre-authorization. You will have to wait a few weeks to have the actual work done EXCEPT FOR EMERGENCY CARE. PHS - INDIAN HEALTH CENTER - CHEMAWA INDIAN SCHOOL has hired two new employees. Both ladies are Siletz Indians. Lorraine Hesketh is the new Contract Health Service clerk and will start working March 17; Janet Russell is hired as a clerk/typist starting her employment March 24, 1980. Lorraine will be taking Adrienne Hall’s place at Chemawa. Adrienne is moving to Portland. MEDICAL CARE REMINDERS: Please call 1-800-452-7823 before your appointments'; for< medical care for pre-authorization or INDIAN HEALTH CANNOT PAY THE B T T .T ., Let them know if you are referred by your doctor to another doctor or have other x-rays, lab work, etc. Call this same telephone number before any hospitalizatipn unless it is an emergency and then call the Clinic within 3 days or 72 hours. If you have Insurance or Medicare still call regarding appointments and send IHS (Chemawa) a copy of your explanation of benefits from your insurance co. after the insurance pays, so IHS can pay the remainder. Give your Doctors office your name for billing and the following address: PHS - Indian Health Center - Chemawa, 3750 Hazelgreen Rd., N.E., Salem, Oregon 97303. Please call us if you are on Welfare and we will explain how our benefits work. Eye exams are okayed yearly and you must go to DR. Michel Gaynor in Salem or Newport Vision Center in Newport. Special consideration to see another Doctor must be requested. Call us first before making an appointment with either of the above Doctors. If you live within 25 miles of Salem please come to our Clinic for Medical care. We now have x-ray and pharmacy services. Call for an appointment first and check with our pharmacy before coming to make sure we have the medication. NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD STUDENT SUMMER PROGRAM 1980 - June 14 - July 26 1980. The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Health Careers Opportu nity Program will be facilitating a SIX-WEEK SUMMER PROGRAM FROM June 14 to July 26, 1980, TOR NATIVE AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS AND COLLEGE FRESHMEN AT PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, FOREST GROVE, OREGON. The purpose of the summer program is to prepare Native American students for their up coming college curriculum and college environment. Mini-courses will focus on increasing math, chemistry, biology and english skills. ELIGIBILITY: 1. This program is geared towards students who are presently high school seniors or college freshmen and wish to pursue a health career. 2. Applicants should have completed a minimum of one year of math and one science course. 3. Applicant must be of Native American or Alaskan Native descent. 4. Applicants should be 18 years or older.. (SOME EXCEPTIONS ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS MAY BE MADE TO THE ABOVE) STUDENT EX PENSES: 1. Each participant will be provided with room and board at Pacific University. 2. Round-trip mileage (15^ per mile) to Forest Grove, Oregon will be provided to each participant. 3. Each student will i 'eive a $350.00 stipend for their attendance and participation.
