COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JANUARY 17, 2018 5A
Cottage Grove Retrospective
A look back at Sentinel stories from 30 and 60 years ago
Nursing home staff looks toward future '88
Folks at Coast Fork Nursing Center are
smiling these days.
Staff members and residents at the center
have good reason to be happy with an en-
thusiastic new boss at the helm and a recent
report card from the state saying the facility
is doing an excellent job.
Jane Boren took over as administrator of
the nursing center located in Cottage Grove
on Sept. 21. She held a similar position at
Valley west Health Care Center in Eugene
before moving to Coast Fork.
It wasn’t long after Boren arrived on the
scene before she received some good news
about the facility she represents. A client
care monitoring unit from the State of Or-
egon’s senior services decision submitted
its survey of the center Nov. 19 Boren was
delight with the results.
“This survey was as good as the best sur-
vey I ever had at Valley West,” Boren said,
adding that Valley West is as good as nurs-
ing home as any on the west coast.
The survey which requires offi cials to
spend fi ve days inspecting the center, re-
vealed several minor problems, which
Boren said aren’t serious. She said many of
the necessary corrections have been made.
Neither Boren nor her staff were shocked
by the favorable report.
When Boren took over at Coast Fork, her
initial feeling was that the facility has the
potential to be excellent. Her goal was to get
things running smoothly.
Boren found a “very local and dedicat-
ed staff” waiting for her when she arrived.
Many of the staff members were around
when state inspections weren’t so compli-
mentary.
State offi cials found code infractions as
early as 1984, when the facility was named
Edgewood Nursing Center.
A statement of defi ciency was sent to the
facility in the spring of 1985. Infractions
included improper skin care, lack of exer-
cise and infection controls that didn’t meet
state guidelines, according to state health
offi cials.
The infractions threatened the nursing
center’s Medicare and Medicaid certifi ca-
tion.
In the summer of 1985, the center dug it-
self out of trouble by making what offi cials
called “substantial improvements” in the
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problem areas.
The current owners, Prestige Care Corp.
based in Portland, bought the center in
February of 1986 and changed the name to
Coast Fork Nursing Center.
More trouble arose in July of that year
when the center was decertifi ed by state
health offi cials. Admissions were closed off
for three months until improvements were
made and the facility was recertifi ed.
A new administration has given the center
a brighter outlook and kept Coast Fork in
the stat’s good graces ever since.
Boren insist she shouldn’t be given too
much credit for Coast Fork’s recent prosper-
ity. She said existing staff worked through
many of the center’s problems before she
arrived.
Now that the nursing center’s problems
appear to be behind it, Boren plans to make
sure they don’t resurface. She said taking
good care of the patients I the cornerstone
to a successful nursing center.
“My fi rst obligation is to patient care,”
Boren said. One of her fi rst moves as new
administrator was to increase staff and buy
more supplies she deemed necessary.
National Beat
News from the state and around
the nation
From around the state
•
16-year-old Sam Munda brought a rain-
bow fl ag to school in Forest Grove igniting
several complaints to the school board and
a community reaction that bordered on hys-
terics after rumors fl ew around town that the
school had replaced the American fl ag with
the rainbow fl ag. The school did not replace
one fl ag with the other and Munda said she
brought the fl ag to school to show other
LGBTQ students support.
•
Oregon's NAACP leaders said last week
that the state did not properly allocate tax-
payer dollars meant to help African-Ameri-
can students. The state legislature set aside
$2.7 million for several organizations in
Portland that helped black students and their
families. NAACP offi cials contend the mon-
ey was not distributed equitably.
•
Detroit Lake could be drained for up to two
years if a project meant to improve con-
ditions for endangered fi sh is approved. A
300-foot tower would help regulate water
temperature in North Santiam River but
would essentially empty Detroit Lake.
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
January 9
January 13
Signifi cant traffi c was reported
when cars were backed up from
Gateway and Row River to Main
St. due to construction. Oregon
Department of Transportation then
reset the traffi c lights from Salem
and traffi c was moving again.
A 76-year-old man reported that
a yellow two-door pickup truck
drove across the parking lot
towards him causing him to have
to jump to the side to avoid being
hit. The man fell down and was
injured but did not require medical
assistance. The man also report-
ed that the driver of the car was
laughing.
January 10
A baggy of meth was found on a
bench of the upstairs holding area
at the police station.
that a syringe was found in the
parking lot.
A driver of a Greyhound bus
reported that after getting lost, she
was now stuck in mud and unable
to move the bus.
A woman on Jefferson Ave. re-
ported a disturbance when an in-
dividual attempted to try and enter
her home through a cat door and is
now sitting outside in their car. An
offi cer arrived and reported that
the individual who was trying to
get in, was initially invited into the
home.
January 11
A male wearing a black coat and
a backpack was almost struck by
several vehicles as he was walking
in and out of traffi c near the I-5
northbound ramp.
From around the nation
•
Authorities in California reported discov-
ering 13 siblings locked in their parents
basement, some in chains, on Monday, Jan.
15. The siblings ranged in age from two to
29 and appeared to be malnourished. The
parents were taken into custody and held on
bail of $9 million each.
•
Pope Francis told reporters earlier this week
that he feared nuclear war and thought the
world to be "at the very limit" of engaging
in nuclear combat.
•
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov ac-
cused the White House of using “question-
able and unfair” methods to “keep rivals in
check," referring to sanctions handed down
by the U.S.
•
For 38 minutes, residents of Hawaii hid in
closets and called loved ones after a bun-
gled emergency system test sent out alerts
that the island was under attack.
January 14
January 12
Reckless driving was reported
near Bohemia Park when a driver
A woman reported that her daugh- did not yield to a woman and her
ter received a text from an individ- kids as they crossed the street and
ual saying that they were a stalker. nearly struck them. The vehicle
It turned out that the individual
then followed the individuals and
was the daughter’s friend.
attempted to strike them in a park-
ing lot near the park.
An employee on 5th St. reported
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Oregon State Senator Floyd Prozanski
District 4 State Senator
PO Box 11511
Eugene, OR 97440
Phone: (541)342-2447
E-Mail : sen.fl oydprozanski@state.or.us
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District 7 State Representative
900 Court St. NE
Salem, OR 97301
Phone: (503) 986-1407
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Peter DeFazio (House of Representatives)
405 East 8th Ave.
#2030
Eugene, OR 97401
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Phone: (541) 465-6732
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Ron Wyden (Senator)
405 East 8th Ave., Suite 2020
Eugene, OR, 97401
Email: visit wyden.senate.gov
Phone: (541) 431-0229
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Phone: (541) 465-6750