FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times. Heppner. Oregon Wednesday, February 19, 1997
HHS inducts new Honor Society members
P M N H celebrates V a le n tin e 's D ay
H e p p n er High School students (l-r): K athleen G reen u p , Brooke Boyer, Jill B arber, Tim Dickenson
and A dam Doherty w ere recently inducted into the National H onor Society in a cerem on y at the
school.
T h e Sentimentalists
Pioneer Memorial Hospital and
Nursing Home employees created
a special Valentine's Day for
nursing hqpie residents Fndav.
Feb. 14.
The staff decorated patients'
rooms with balloons, brought them
flowers and candy , treated those
who were able with lunch at a
restaurant and brought lunch in
for others.
The "Sentimentalists", a local
singing group consisting of
BonnaRae Miller, Rita Britt,
Luvilla
Sonstegard,
Lynnea
Sargent, Gayle Arbogast, Norma
French, Dons Brosnan and
Barbara Pettyjohn, accompanied
by Molly Day on the piano,
entertained the residents
Immunization exclusion set
P ioneer Mem orial Nursing H om e staff m em ber Marie V anE tta celebrates
Valentine's Day with resident G eorgia Lynch.
Toni Kemp
receives
vocational award
Trina Lankford earns recognition
Toni Kemp, a student studying
agricultural sciences at Heppner
High School, has been named a lo­
cal winner in the ServiStar Coast
to Coast All-American Vocational
Student Awards program. Kemp
will receive a $100 U.S. Savings
Bond, which will be awarded by
ServiStar Coast to Coast.
Kemp was one of more than
3,000 local winners in the compe­
tition, which is sponsored nation­
ally by the corporation and locally
by Coast to Coast. Kemp and other
local winners are being honored in
conjunction with National Voca­
tional Education Week. She will
now advance to state competition.
Trina L. Lankford, LaGrande,
daughter of Karen Haguewood of
lone, has earned recognition from
the Medical Transcriptionist Certi­
fication Program (NTFCP) at the
American Association for Medical
Transcription (AAMT) by being
designated a Certified Medical
Transcriptionist (CM1T).
The
CMT credential is the highest
honor of professional achievement
available to medical transcnption-
ists, according to a Medical Trans­
criptionist Certification Program
news release. Lankford is em­
ployed at Grande Ronde Hospital at
LaGrande.
Organized in 1978, AAMT is
dedicated to shaping and promot­
ing the medical transcription pro­
fession and to providing the highest
level of education and standards for
the field.
Lankford qualified as a CMIT by
passing a rigorous two-part core
certification examination.
The
core exam includes a multiple-
choice portion covering medical
terminology, anatomy and physiol­
ogy, disease processes, English
language and usage, health care
record, and professional develop­
ment; the practical portion covers a
COAST TO COAST
is your
variety of medical specialties and
medical report types. In order to
maintain certification, Lankford
must continue a program of
continuing education over succes­
sive three-year periods in the
future. This program requires a
minimum of 30 continuing educa­
tion credits, at least 20 of which
must be in the medical category.
The final deadline for getting
children’s vaccinations up to date
was February 19. On that day,
children and young people without
the required age-appropnate im­
munizations were to be excluded
from Oregon’s schools, child care
centers, Head Start centers and
preschools until they receive and
document adequate vaccinations.
More than 15,000 parents state­
wide received letters mailed from
local health departments February
5 letting them know what immu­
nizations were required.
“Vaccinations protect children
against ten serious diseases,” says
Lorraine Duncan, the state immu­
nization manager. “It’s critical
children and students receive the
recommended immunizations-es-
pecially those in settings such as
schools and child care centers
where disease is easily spread.”
She acknowledges that it’s
sometimes difficult for parents to
make sure their kids have the shots
they need for a variety of reasons.
“Children usually go to more than
two providers, making immuniza­
tions hard to track. Many parents
think their children are up-to-date,
but the reality is they are missing
one or two shots. We are now im­
plementing a statewide child
immunization information system
which addresses this problem.”
Duncan says, “Cost is also a pro­
blem for many people, but public
and private providers participating
in the Vaccines for Children
program provide immunizations at
reduced rates or no cost.”
Parents seeking immunizations
for their children should contact
their private provider, county
health clinic or call Oregon SafeNet
at 1-800-723-3638.
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