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Mnuyy 22, 2004
Health and Wellness Center celebrates 1 0 years
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The staff of the Warm Springs Indian Health Services clinic will host an open house on Wednesday, Jan. 28.
David McMechanSpilyay
The Warm Springs Indian I Icalth Services Health and follow until 10 a.m. The clinic will be hosting a health fair through- The health fair will be the biggest the clinic has ever pre-
Wellness Center is marking its Ten Year Anniversary. To eel- out the day. sented. There will be 25 booths, representing all of the clinic
ebrate the event, the center will host an open house - with the Speakers include master of ceremonies Captain Moody; clinic departments, plus presentations on how the clinic has devel-
theme of "Past, Present and Future" - on Wednesday, Jan. 28. director Russ Alger; a representative of Tribal Council, and from oped and changed over the years, and booths on many health-
The opening ceremonies begin at 9 a.m., with speakers to 1 Icalth and Welfare. related topics.
Clinic awarded for innovation
The staff of the Warm
Springs Indian Health Services
Health and Wellness Center re
ceived national recognition for
work done in 2003.
The entire clinic staff re
ceived recognition through the
annual IHS National Director's
Award.
A delegation from the clinic
traveled to Rockville, Maryland
to accept the award.
Last year the clinic staff
worked at upgrading the patient
data collection system. "The
whole Health and Wellness Cen
ter was responsible for imple
menting the new system," said
Russ Alger, clinic director.
Part of the system improve
. ment involved the implementa
tion of a computer program
called Patient Care Component
Plus.
The system records patient
visits to the clinic, combining the
patient's health data and billing
information in a customizable
form.
The Warm Springs center was
one of the first in Indian Coun
try to adopt this program, said
Alger.
For its work, the staff was
recognized by the award for
"outstanding performance,
dedication and commitment to
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Russ Alger and clinic
The staff was recognised
for "outstanding perfor
mance, dedication and
commitment to th e
mission of the IHS. "
the mission of the Indian Health
Service."
The clinic staff has also
played a key part in the devel
opment of many medical forms
used throughout Indian Coun-
David McMechanSpilyay
secretary Liana Tom
try. The forms include forms
for diabetes foot care, an am
bulatory encounter form, physi
cal examination, pharmacy, re
nal clinic, elder and women's
care.
Along with the rest of the
clinic staff, the Warm Springs
business office also received the
Portland Area IHS Director's
Award. This award was for ex
ceptional performance in col
lecting revenue for the center
from Medicaid, Medicare and
private insurance.
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25 years ago this week
From the January 19, 1979
edition of Spilyay Tymoo.
HUD, Housing
Authority sued
by contractor
Three local housing offi
cials were not surprised when
they received summons from
the U.S. District Court of
. Oregon. . , , ,., .
This was their formal no
tification that the Warm
Springs Housing Authority
and the U.S. Department of
I lousing and Urban Develop
ment (HUD) were being sued
to the tune of $269,000 by
Marshall N. Dana Construc
tion Inc., terminated contrac
tor for the 50-unit HUD
housing project.
It was just the anticipated
climax to a long history of
problems between the con
tractor and the Housing Au
thority that began just after
the $1.7 million project was
awarded to Dana in April of
1977.
The suit seeks damages in the
amount of $225,000 for breach
of contract, plus $14,000 is
sought for work performed on
the senior citizens community
building and allegedly not paid.
Hydroelectric
study, in final stage
A progress report on the fea
sibility of constructing generat
ing facilities at the Pelton-Re-regulating
dam will be presented
to the Tribal Council.
. The final report, due out in
February, will include a general
design and financial analysis.
Montee accepts
job in Prineville
Dick Montee's letter of res
ignation brings to a quiet con
clusion several months of un
certain and increasingly uncom
fortable employment with the
tribes. Montee, who was trans
ferred back to the juvenile pro
gram after a brief stint as assis
tant chief of police, accepted
an offer from Prineville.
Eck, Elliott & Anderson LLP
Attorneys at Law
42 NW Greeley Ave
Bend, OR 97701
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John Courtney is a long way from Warm
Springs, where he grew up.
Courtney, 23, is at Ft. Benning in Georgia,
where he is going through U.S. Army officer
training.
After training for a few more months at
Ft. Benning, Lt. Courtney will be heading to
his permanent duty station at Ft. Carson, Colo.
Then in 2005 he will be heading for ser
vice overseas. The likely destination overseas
is Iraq.
Lt. Courtney has been in die Army for die
past seven months. He joined shortly after
graduating from the Oregon State University,
where he earned a degree in Sociology.
His wife Lt. April Courtney also gradu
ated from OSU, and she also joined die Army.
As college graduates, and with high rank
ing in the Reserve Officer Training Corps, the
Courtneys joined the Army as officers.
Because of their accomplishments in col
lege, they were able to choose which area of
Army service they wished to pursue as a ca
reer. April Courtney is in training in the area of
military intelligence, while her husband is train
ing as an Infantry lieutenant. When he com
pletes the officer training at Ft. Benning, Lt.
John Courtney will have 34 soldiers under his
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command.
"My job is to keep diem alive," he says,
adding that the training he has received
so far has been excellent. "I love the
Army," he says.
Courtney plans one day to move back
to Warm Springs, f le has strong roots
here, having gone to sch(xl at Warm
Springs Elementary and the Jefferson
Count- middle and high schools. I lis par
ents are Ellen and Don Courtnev.
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