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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2019
Q&A
New chief executive at Providence Seaside Hospital
Four years ago,
near the emergency
Lemmon and his
department. We also
wife, Kathy, relo-
have an upgrade
cated to Hood River
and renovations that
to be near one of
will be occurring in
their four children.
our pharmacy to be
He took over as
in compliance with
director of opera- Don Lemmon federal regulations
tions at Providence
that were recently
Hood River Memorial Hos- put in place to upgrade the
pital before accepting the pharmacy for the mixing
position in Seaside.
hoods. My main focus is to
Q: What sort of initiatives be able to provide basic ser-
are you overseeing at Provi- vices for our community.
dence Seaside?
The need for access to pri-
A:
The
emergency mary care is huge, and we’ve
department expansion is the recently hired three pri-
big one, for sure. We also mary care providers who just
have some changes that will started this week, a primary
be occurring with a new CT care physician and two pri-
scanner, sort of a new MRI mary care nurse practitioners
scanner that was recently who just came on board this
purchased. The trailer that’s week.
in front of the facility that’s
Q: What are the chal-
parked out there will be lenges of recruiting new
moved out. The new MRI physicians?
will be housed in the facility
A: Physician recruit-
Lemmon started
the job this month
By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Don Lemmon started
three weeks ago as the chief
executive of Providence Sea-
side Hospital. He replaced
Kendall Sawa, who was
recently named chief oper-
ating offi cer of Providence
Portland Medical Center.
Originally from Pennsyl-
vania, Lemmon started as a
paramedic with a helicop-
ter service. He worked as
a respiratory therapist and
later a cardiac stenographer.
Trained in health care and
business administration, he
served as vice president of
Brookville Hospital and later
DuBois Regional Medical
Center in Pennsylvania.
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
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ting in Seaside, you can have
specialists that are located
in Portland that are com-
ing across the computer
to interact with you and
treat patients. It’s a great
opportunity.
I really would like to
work closely with our com-
munity partners and part-
ner with our area hospitals
to really strengthen services
in Clatsop County. The com-
munity health needs assess-
ment certainly has areas
where we can all focus and
help to improve. Behavioral
h ealth is I believe a tough
challenge for all of us. Plenty
of great services available in
Clatsop County, but they can
also be strengthened. There
needs to be a greater focus
on behavioral health, and I
believe more federal fund-
ing moved in that direction
to strengthen it.
Robert Franklin Reiter
Remaining cloudy with a
touch of rain
Cloudy
with the director of our
social work in regards to
dealing with food insecu-
rity and housing insecurity.
There are homeless people
in the area and throughout
the state and the country, and
those individuals who can’t
afford fresh fruits and vege-
tables. So we have programs
in place, a wonderful food
pantry here, that helps with
those challenges. That’s defi -
nitely a focus we have. Prov-
idence focuses on providing
care for everyone, but espe-
cially the poor and vulner-
able. Food-challenged and
housing-challenged
indi-
viduals are those unfortu-
nate few that require special
attention.
Here in Seaside, we
do have a lot of telemedi-
cine opportunities that are
in place for services. Even
though you’re in a rural set-
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ment in any rural area is a
little more diffi cult than it
is in a large city. But hav-
ing said that, the draw to an
area like this, the same as
to Hood River, is really the
area itself. There are provid-
ers out there who are looking
for an opportunity to work
in such a beautiful place as
Seaside, Oregon, and Hood
River, Oregon. We have a full
recruitment team that Provi-
dence employs that works
very diligently to advertise
and to fi nd candidates. Those
candidates have their (curric-
ulum vitae) sent to the hospi-
tal, where they’re reviewed,
and we consider bringing
them in for an interview.
Q: What are some of the
opportunities and challenges
faced by a rural hospital like
Providence Seaside?
A: Plenty of opportuni-
ties. I just talked recently
Warrenton
Dec. 9, 1935 — Jan. 23, 2019
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Record high ............................ 60° in 1988
Record low ............................. 15° in 1957
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REGIONAL CITIES
Tonight's Sky: Bright stars Mirfak and Algol of
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UNDER THE SKY
Time
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SUN AND MOON
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Portland
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Robert Franklin “ Big Red” Reiter, a life- ship to the University of Oregon.
After leaving U of O, he married Virginia
long resident of Clatsop County and Union-
t own, passed away peacefully on Jan. 23, Patson. He worked in the woods logging
and gillnetted on the Columbia
2019 at the age of 83 from compli-
River and in Alaska. He eventu-
cations associated with cancer and
ally joined the International Long-
congestive heart failure, with mul-
shore and Warehouse Union Local
tiple family members at his side.
50, and retired after 35 years.
He is survived by his wife of 40
Reiter enjoyed participating in
years, Pauline; their children, John
all the outdoor activities the area
(Bend, Oregon), Cathy (Astoria,
had to offer, and was quite adept at
Oregon), Jim (Vancouver, Wash-
harvesting all of the local bounty.
ington), Don Swanson (Vancou-
Whatever was in season was his
ver, Washington), Floyd Hol-
passion. He passed on his love
com (Astoria, Oregon), Debbie
Robert Reiter
of the outdoors to his family, and
Schmunk (Hillsboro, Oregon), Jim
they still partake in the endeavors
Wakeman (Bandon, Oregon) and
Brent Wakeman (Renton, Washington); and to this day.
A memorial service and celebration will
multiple grandchildren and great-grandchil-
dren. He is also survived by his two sisters, be held on Thursday, Jan. 31 from 1 to 4 p.m.
Francis Moorehead (St. Helens, Oregon) and at The Loft at the Red Building in Astoria.
Susie Finch (Oregon City, Oregon). He was All family, friends and acquaintances are
preceded in death by a son, Richard, in 1999. invited to attend.
In lieu of fl owers, the family asks that
Reiter was born on Dec. 9, 1935, to Frank
Reiter and Sylvia Korpela, and raised in donations be made to the Longshore Schol-
Astoria. He lived his entire life in the Asto- arship Fund, c/o Astoria High School Schol-
ria area, where he raised his family amid the arship Inc., P.O. Box 598, Astoria, OR.,
splendor of the Columbia River and the Ore- 97103, and reference on your check “Rob-
gon Coast. He excelled in sports, earning 10 ert F. Reiter — ILWU Longshoremen Schol-
varsity letters at Astoria High School, was arship Account.” Reiter has been a strong
selected to play in the 1954 h igh s chool Shri- supporter and long-time contributor to this
ners game, and received a football scholar- scholarship fund.
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DEATH
Jan. 24, 2019
COOPER, Della Alice (Edwards), 75, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
MEMORIAL
Saturday, Feb. 2
OREN, Emmy Haglund Backlund — Memorial at 11 a.m., Our Saviour’s Lutheran
Church, 320 First Ave. in Seaside.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
MONDAY
Seaside City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 989
Broadway.
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
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