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East Oregonian
Tuesday, August 7, 2018
SCHOOLS: Sandstone
roof repairs complete
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for the flow of folks passing
through.”
Wayland said both those
buildings are open-campus
plans, and security upgrades
for them were prioritized on
the bond.
Facilities
supervisor
Martie McQuain said those
schools may staff the gates
during busy times to monitor
who was coming through.
Last summer the district
made some safety upgrades
to West Park and Sunset ele-
mentary schools, setting up a
system that allows doors to
hallways with classrooms to
be closed with the push of a
button any time the school
goes into lockdown. The dis-
trict also built entrance areas
with windows, where a front
office worker could observe
people coming in and let
them in by pushing a button.
While the hallways door
project has been completed,
the front entrance project has
not.
“Right now, the overall
system doesn’t work with
that,” Wayland said. “We’re
looking at trying to upgrade
that.”
Sandstone
Middle
School’s roof repairs are
complete, a project Way-
land said was high on the
priority list from the bond.
He said the roof cost about
$850,000.
Though capacity was one
of the main concerns for the
district, Wayland said they
did not add any modular
classrooms this year.
“We will look at that over
the course of the fall,” he
said.
McQuain said they rear-
ranged some classes to make
better use of space.
“Sandstone had a smaller
class in a bigger room,”
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
J.J. Jackson mops the floor in a fitness room on Friday at the Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center in Mission.
CLINIC: Improving the quality of care
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Care “is built upon the sim-
ple, yet revolutionary belief
that the relationship between
the primary care team and
the patient is the single most
important tool in manag-
ing chronic disease, con-
trolling health care costs,
and improving the overall
wellness of a population.”
It serves to improve com-
munication between health
care providers and allow
more integration of services,
such as medical and dental.
“Putting it into prac-
tice is the more challenging
side,” said interim commu-
nity wellness director Car-
rie Sampson. She said Yel-
lowhawk is starting to move
away from calling it the
Nuka System of Care and is
implementing its own inte-
grative practices.
The new facility is
another aspect of the tribe
becoming autonomous in
its own health care. Accord-
ing to the Yellowhawk web-
site, the CTUIR took owner-
ship of its tribal health care
in 1996 from Indian Health
Service, an agency within
the United States Depart-
ment of Health and Human
Services, whereas previ-
ously it was overseen by the
federal government.
Yellowhawk is also in the
process of becoming accred-
ited through the Public
Health Accreditation Board,
which takes years to accom-
plish. At this time, only one
tribe in the United States is
accredited by the board —
Cherokee Nation Health
Services in Oklahoma.
The ultimate purpose of a
health care facility becoming
accredited is to improve the
quality of care provided to
patients, said Sampson, and
it will hopefully reduce the
range of health disparities
prevalent among the Native
American population.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
There are ten exam rooms in the dental clinic at the
new Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center in Mission. Six
more than were onsite at the old Yellowhawk facility.
Data from the Indian
Health Service shows that
American Indians and
Alaska Natives have a life
expectancy 5.5 years less
than the rest of the U.S.
population. And they die at
higher rates among catego-
ries such as diabetes, suicide
and assault and homicide.
“I feel like going through
this process of public health
accreditation is — ultimately
the end result is to reduce
those health disparities that
we see,” said Sampson.
“That’s why they ask you
to do this community health
assessment in the begin-
ning. Because after we’ve
been accredited for 10 years
we want to see a really huge
improvement because we’re
acting as a better functioning
public health organization.”
Sampson said a 2015
community health assess-
ment conducted by Yellow-
hawk highlighted areas that
could be improved, such as
obesity and diabetes. She
said the assessment showed
that over 80 percent of the
population was overweight
or obese. The health assess-
ment didn’t present any new
information, but it gave
them a baseline to work
with, she said. “It’s kind of
exciting in a way that we’ll
be able to follow that and see
if the work that we’re doing
is improving and impacting
the community.”
Public health accredi-
tation was initially struc-
tured towards county health
departments, which makes
it easier for them, said
Sampson.
“Tribal health centers are
different. Other than Chero-
kee Nation, they are mostly
centered under one system,”
she said referring to the
array of services available
under Yellowhawk’s roof.
“So when we are try-
ing to meet the standards
and measures that PHAB
requires, it’s challenging.
Public county health depart-
ments are not structured like
that. It’s pretty cut and dry
for them and we have to find
those fine lines.”
According to Samp-
son, the exploration of the
accreditation process began
in 2011 when Yellowhawk
received funding to conduct
a community health assess-
ment, the first step in the
accreditation process.
“And then they did a draft
community health improve-
ment plan after that — a sort
of light strategic plan — it
was sort of a test run of the
three requirements you have
nation’s government create
electronic information sys-
tems for its government-run
clinics.
Setzer’s career has taken
him around the world, to
more than a dozen African
countries, as well as others
— Azerbaijan, Bangladesh,
El Salvador and Vietnam are
just a small sampling.
A Philadelphia native,
Setzer served in the Peace
Corps, worked as a sci-
ence teacher, and eventually
became interested in public
health, earning his master’s
degree. He has since worked
in the U.S. and abroad, in all
aspects of public health.
Murdock said he had
enjoyed
working
with
Setzer, and appreciated his
breadth of knowledge.
“He’s a fascinating indi-
vidual, and he certainly has a
lot of skills,” Murdock said,
citing his variety of experi-
ences in the medical field.
He said he appreci-
ated Setzer’s work with the
Year of Wellness, an effort
that started in April, where
county health employees
would do events to promote
health education and better
lifestyle habits, focusing on
a different health topic each
month.
He said Setzer was also
able to secure several grants
for the county, and improved
the county’s health metrics.
“Metrics are essentially
a variety of benchmarks,”
he said. “Such as the per-
centage of the population
that smokes, teen pregnancy,
immunization. Under his
leadership, we’ve made tre-
mendous progress.”
He said the county has
not yet decided when and
how they will fill Setzer’s
role.
“We don’t have any kind
of a plan yet as to when we’ll
look, or if we’ll have another
director, or reorganize the
department,” he said.
FAIR: ‘Know your lane!’
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are not handicapped-ac-
cessible but the Kayak
bus is. Both buses are
air-conditioned.
If people choose to pay
for parking by bringing
their vehicle to the East-
ern Oregon Trade and
Event Center, McNalley
and EOTEC general man-
ager Al Davis said the
things will go much faster
if everyone has the correct
change — $5 — ready to
hand out their window as
soon as they pull up.
As they approach the
fairgrounds, vehicles with
paid general admission
need to get in the left lanes,
prepaid parking passes
are in the center lane, and
rodeo and handicapped
parking should stick to the
right.
“Know your lane!”
McNalley said. “Be ready.
That’s our motto for the
fair — Stirrup Some Fun
and know your lane.”
After traffic jams on the
first-ever day of the fair at
EOTEC last year, organiz-
ers switched up the park-
ing and traffic to help with
the flow. At a recent city
council meeting Davis said
they have learned from last
year and believe they have
a good system planned for
this year that will keep
things flowing.
Temperatures
are
expected to be well over
100 degrees mid-week, but
McNalley said there will
plenty of places to sit down
and eat under canopies and
people can stop inside the
air-conditioned event cen-
ter to check out the exhib-
its and booths there any
time they’re feeling hot.
Cold beverages and ice
cream will also be on sale
throughout the venue, and
McNalley said a new zip-
line this year should help
“put some wind through
your hair.”
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SETZER: Career has
taken him to more than a
dozen African countries
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to do to even apply,” she
said.
Yellowhawk conducted
another community health
assessment in 2015 and
received the results from
that assessment in 2016.
Sampson said, “And it
was kind of asking our-
selves: “‘Well, where are we
going now?’”
The health center started
seriously pursuing the
accreditation process in the
latter half of 2016. Samp-
son applied for an accredi-
tation coordinator through
the Center for Disease Con-
trol’s Public Health Associ-
ate Program and was landed
with Courtney Stover, who
is assisting with the process.
“So we’re very fortu-
nate to have her because as
you know in our rural areas
it is very difficult to find
individuals with a public
health background. When
she arrived here in October
I feel like that’s when we
really got to get the ball roll-
ing again,” said Sampson.
The cost to apply for the
accreditation process cost
$11,800, said Stover. How-
ever, in recent years more
funding has become avail-
able to pursue this ave-
nue, she said. Yellowhawk
received two $10,500 grants
from the National Indian
Health Board to assist with
the accreditation process.
“I think more tribes are
becoming interested as more
funding becomes available
to do some of these things,”
she said.
In fact, many tribes in
the U.S. are almost fin-
ished with the accredita-
tion process. “We’re not try-
ing to be the second tribe
to become accredited in the
United States,” said Samp-
son. “But we are thinking
we might be the first tribe in
the Northwest.”
he said. “We moved that
around, and tried to fill in all
the gaps we have.”
Wayland noted there
were also a few empty class-
rooms that were used for
testing and other purposes,
but did not have a class in
them full-time.
The district is reno-
vating the two remaining
buildings on the old Uma-
tilla County Fairgrounds,
Thompson and Hoeft halls.
Hoeft Hall will be used for
storage and equipment, and
Thompson Hall will be used
for special education classes.
They made upgrades to
the kitchen, made the bath-
room handicap-accessible,
and built a wall inside the
building to separate the area
where students will be from
a recycling area.
In addition to spe-
cial projects this summer,
McQuain said his staff
works throughout the year to
maintain grounds.
“I have about 30 custodi-
ans, six groundsmen, three
maintenance staff and two
warehousemen,” McQuain
said.
He said the staff deals
with almost all maintenance,
but Oregon law requires that
certain jobs be completed by
specific technicians.
“Our tradesmen will
assist with electrical, HVAC
and plumbing work,” he
said. “We have a lot of skilled
technicians, but they’re not
allowed to do (certain tasks)
per Oregon code.”
Throughout the summer,
custodians at the middle and
high schools stay in their
own buildings, and a team
of custodians will move
between each of the elemen-
tary schools and do deep
cleaning, which includes the
windows and floors.
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