SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2018
Port to hold meeting,
work session Feb. 21
On Wednesday, Feb. 21, the
Port of Siuslaw Board of
Commissioners will hold a
work session at 6 p.m. and
their regular meeting at 7 p.m.
at the Port conference room,
located at 100 Harbor St. in
Florence.
The work session will
include a presentation by Dave
Harlen with Business Oregon.
The regular meeting will
include an update on the
Erosion Repair Project and a
resolution for an appropria-
tions transfer.
Work sessions and regular
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Volunteers get treated for Valentine’s Day
meetings are open to the pub-
lic.
Following the regular meet-
ing, the commissioners will
meet in executive session per
ORS 192.660(2)(e) to conduct
deliberations with persons des-
ignated to negotiate real prop-
erty transactions, and per ORS
192.660(2)(a) to review port
manager applications.
Meeting packets will be
posted at www.portofsius-
law.com 48 hours before the
meeting.
For more information, call
541-997-3426.
Saturday, March 10
Florence Events
Center
Begins at 5
Dinner at 6:30
Live Auction at 7:30
COURTESY PHOTOS
P
eaceHealth Volunteers celebrated Valentine’s Day early on Feb. 9
at the Bridgeport Market in Historic Old Town Florence. Wine tast-
ing, food and chocolate were enjoyed by all in attendance. This is an
annual fundraiser for the organization and the event was sold out. Over
$800 was raised and tickets were limited to 40 people. Peace Harbor
Hospital cafeteria staff provided most of the food and desserts.
Bridgeport Market owner Jay Cable and the staff provided and served
wine and cheese. The event was organized by Joan Kerrebrock and
Gail Petty, both past presidents of the volunteers. Due to its success,
there are plans to hold this event again next February.
Sponsored in part by:
Oregon Pacific Bank
Caldera Springs Getaway by Bill Meyer
Bridgewater Fish House
Florence Eye Clinic
Cross Road Assembly
Brian Holmes DMD/ Justin Linton DDS
The Marathoners
Fred Meyer
Heceta Self Storage
Oley & Bobbie Nelson
On Your Feet with a Splash
theflorencerotary.org
Let the Games Begin
Rotary celebrates a world fi lled with possibility, raising funds for
scholarships for Florence area youth and other community projects.
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New pilot program taps paramedic for home visits
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor
Medical Center and Western
Lane Ambulance District have
partnered to pilot a new pro-
gram aimed at preventing hos-
pital readmissions by enhanc-
ing in-home care.
Launched Jan. 2, the Mobile
Integrated Healthcare program
provides non-emergency EMS
visits to patients in their homes
following hospitalization or an
Emergency Department visit. A
911 call to EMS frequently
results in transport to an emer-
gency room, even when the
patient may not require that
complex and costly a level of
care — and if EMS does not
transport the patient, they are
not reimbursed for the expense
of ambulance activation.
The new collaboration dedi-
cates an ambulance unit and a
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trained paramedic to provide
immediate, non-emergency fol-
low-up home visits for patients
identified as having high
potential for calling emergency
services.
Working with Peace Harbor
community health worker
Heather Hammond, paramedic
Chris Martin meets daily with
discharge planners and makes
every effort to visit the patients
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tal to explain how he can help
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ager, Martin is gathering met-
rics to measure the success of
each of the pilot program’s four
goals:
• Reducing hospital readmis-
sion rates
• Reducing ED visits
• Reducing non-transports
(when an ambulance is dis-
patched but the patient is not
brought to the hospital)
• Reducing the percentage of
patients seen at Peace Harbor
for discharge follow-up
The program hit the ground
running in its first week, when
Martin provided immediate
post-discharge visits and triage
to 12 patients who had been
referred to Home Health Care.
Kathy Murphy, RN, CHPN,
manager of Home Care
Services, is pleased that the
program will help her staff
identify patients who would
benefit from home care sooner
than might otherwise occur.
Matt House, EMS opera-
tions chief for Western Lane
Ambulance, said the program
is already proving beneficial to
the community.
“The Mobile Integrated
Healthcare
position
was
designed to bridge gaps in
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munity,” House said. “To have
such a positive outcome, before
the program technically even
started speaks volumes for
potential future success sto-
ries.”
Based in Vancouver, Wash.,
PeaceHealth is a nonprofit
Catholic health system offering
care to communities in
Washington, Oregon and
Alaska.
In 1890, the Sisters of St.
Joseph of Peace founded what
has become PeaceHealth.
PeaceHealth Peace Harbor
Medical Center has been rec-
ognized for exemplary per-
formance in using evidence-
based clinical processes shown
to improve care for certain con-
ditions, including heart attack,
heart failure, pneumonia and
surgical care.
Since opening its doors in
1989, Peace Harbor has provid-
ed a level of patient care in
advanced imaging and technol-
ogy that surpasses most other
rural facilities.
Visit online at PeaceHealth.
org.
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