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M.C. Public Health brings in maternal child health coordinator Bessie Wetzell Newspaper Ltbrarv University o f Oregon Eugene. OR 97403 VOL. 129 NO. 41 10 Pages Wednesday, October 20,2010 M orrow C ounty Public Health has hired Liz DeCou to take on the role o f maternal child health coordinator and lactation consultant. The role of mater nal child health coordinator and lactation consultant covers three different pro grams. The first is Maternity Case M an agement in w hich D e Cou works w ith p reg nant women and up until the child is tw o y e a rs Liz DeCou old. The pro gram provides resources to help the mother understand different situations that come up throughout preg nancy through age two, as well as connect the mother with different services. The second program is Babies First which covers children from birth through age five. Qualifying factors for the program can include pre maturity, low birth weight, and drug exposures. The third program is Cocoon which covers children from birth through age 20 who develop some type of dis ability. DeCou also han dles a breastfeeding and lactation program. Any community member can Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon access the program. She also works with an inter preter as to be able to help the Hispanic community as As executive director Car- needed. nine helps administer the DeCou was raised farm bill, works with DCP/ in Eugene and received her ACRE, CRP and disaster programs and works with commodity loans. “I re ally like it (the job),” said Carnine. “It’s very fast- paced.” C arnine’s family Federal Health and runs a farm in Stanfield. Her Human Services Secre husband, Travis, is from tary Kathleen Sebelius an Condon and works on the nounced awards of $727 family farm in Stanfield million to 143 community and rodeos. health centers across the Carnine replaced country to address pressing Darcy Vial as executive construction and renovation director when Vial left the needs and expand access to position at the end of June. quality health care. These funds - which will create construction jobs and health center jobs across Ameri ca and enable community health centers to provide affordable care to thousands of additional patients — are the first in a series of awards that will be made available on art work that went over to community health cen a highway overpass. When ters under the Affordable asked why tax money was Care Act. being spent on a pointless O ne o f the a n piece of art, Day said he nounced recipients of seven was told if the agency did Oregon awards is Columbia not spend the money they River Community Health would have to give it back. Services located in Board- “Not much common sense man for $2,370,178.00 there,” he said. U.S. Senator Jeff Other examples were the Merkley, commenting from $70,000 the government Washington D.C. had this spent to connect to social to say about the Boardman networking sites like Fa- funding to the medical fa cebook, the $1,932 per cility - “ Families across month, per employee that Morrow County depend on Tri-Met spends on health the Columbia River Com insurance, a health plan munity Health Services for they could have purchased everything from their kids’ the same as the state for check-ups to disease man $700 less per employee. agement,” said Merkley. “Tri-Met’s health care plan “The new health care law is the most expense in the will create jobs by help United States, Day says. ing expand the facility and Another award went ensure that countless Or again to the Department of egonians receive the health Corrections for spending $ 1 care they need.” million on satellite TV for Community health prisoners, an expenditure centers serve nearly 19 that was also cancelled after million patients, about 40 the award. percent o f who have no Day said the fall of 2008 health insurance. Commu was a difficult election nity health centers deliver cycle because of excessive preventive and prim ary spending supported by the care services at more than Republican Party. “Our 7,900 service delivery sites party (Day is a Republi around the country to pa can) decided to spend and tients regardless of their spend even though we are ability to pay; charges for supposed to be the party o f fiscal responsibility,” he said. He said the state budget continued page eight nursing degree from Lane Community College. She later earned a bachelor's de gree in anthropology from the University of Oregon. She has worked in labor delivery in high-risk hos pitals. DeCou has worked for four years as a lactation consultant and is an Inter national Board Certified Lactation Consultant. DeCou currently lives outside of Heppner. She has three daughters, two of whom live in the San Francisco area. Her third daughter lives in the Washington, D.C. area and has four sons. DeCou is working on restarting the Umatilla/ Morrow County Breast feeding Coalition. A meet ing will be held on October 25 at Good Shepherd Hos pital in conference room 1 from noon to 2 p.m. Anyone who can provide clothing, bedding, or other baby supplies for mothers in need may do so. For more informa tion about any o f the pro grams that DeCou works with, or to donate baby sup plies, call 541-676-5421 or send an email to edecou@ co.morrow.or.us. Preschool students take firehouse tour Camine working as executive director for FSA S tanfield native job search when a friend Kyle Carnine is the ex told her about the FSA. Having been raised ecutive director for the Morrow County on a farm she knew about the all of the Farm Service Agen different programs cy. th a t FSA w orks B orn and raised in Stanfield, with, but did not know who helped Carnine commutes to her job in Hep adm inister those pner. A graduate Kyle Carnine programs. She ap o f Stanfield High p lie d w ith FSA School, Carnine received and immediately began a her bachelor o f science one-year training traveling degree in ag business and a around Oregon. She later minor in crop and soil sci worked with the Sherman ence in 2007 from Eastern County Farm Service Agen Oregon University. cy as the executive director After graduation before coming to Heppner. Carnine was beginning her Boardman Clinic receives $2.3 million from Affordable Care ACT Head of Common Sense says there is ‘lots of fat’ in the state budget Organization uses ‘Golden Fleece Award’ to point out wasteful spending by state agencies By David Sykes The head of Common Sense For Oregon, a non profit group based in Salem, told a gathering in Heppner Sunday if politicians say there is no fat or wasteful spending in the state bud get, they are wrong. During a program put on by the Willow Creek Tea Party Patriots., Ross Day, head o f Common Sense for Oregon, said his group has started giving out The Golden Fleece award to state agencies that waste money and the response has been tremendous. Ross gave several ex amples of wasteful state spending that has garnered the Golden Fleece Award. One went to the state cor rections department that was spending $773,000 on free soda pop for prisoners. He said after they made the award and ran an ad about it on local radio stations the department, the head of which Day knew personally, stopped the practice. “The head of the department of corrections was a friend of mine and a Republican but needless to say he was not to happy about getting the award.” But he points out that money could have been used to fund three full time state troopers. In another example he points to $100,000 spent Ross Day, head of Common Sense For Oregon, speaks Sunday about his group's efforts to control govern ment spending. ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. Students from Heppner Preschool, along with their teacher Merry Chandler, presented volunteer firelighter Steve Rhea for giving them a tour of the firehouse. -Contributed Photo services are set according to income. Lynn Prag, Board President to the non-profit organization is thrilled. “No doubt about it, this fund ing means we will soon be handing out the shovels for groundbreaking.” The campaign is in full swing with professional campaign consultants West- by Associates, Inc. from Vancouver, WA, bringing in foundation, public and phil anthropic strategic support to help deliver the $4.4 mil lion capital campaign as the only medical site in the City of Boardman. This figure is currently being evaluated. Truer figure will be avail able after meeting with the architect and builders in the next couple of weeks. Newly appointed Boardman Campaign Co- Chairs Gary and Kathy Neal commented “Kathy and I have a personal and local interest in Columbia River Community Health Services. We want to make sure that the clinic has an enduring foundation as a new medical facility that will serve Boardman and the Port o f Morrow for many generations. This is much needed and we are pleased to be a part of it.” Kathy Neal has reported that the local fund raising has surpassed $350,000 of the $500,000 needed in local pledges from the lo cal areas. “More is needed but we are confident we can raise the additional money.” It is a dream come true as the current clinic had over 12,000 visits last year, has aging equipment, and a growing Port of Morrow that is depending more and more on occupational health services to their growing business environment. Dr. Robert Boss, M edical D irector, with longtime personal involve ment in the medical center noted “This is wonderful news. As we look to the future of Boardman this new m edical clinic will help attract and retain new medical professionals and their families to a growing City of Boardman.” The project is ex pected to break ground in March of 2011, which will create jobs during the con struction phase of the proj ect expected to last several months in creating a newly minted 15,000 square foot print of new outreach and medical services. “This is a huge benefit for the people of the community and it has my full support,” said May or Chet Phillips, City of Boardman. The Capital De velopment (CD) program grants, adm inistered by HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), w ill support major construction and renovation at 143 community health centers nationwide. This builds on the more than $2 billion investment in com munity health centers in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Mindy Binder, Ex ecutive Director to Co lumbia River Community Health Services is espe cially happy about the an nouncem ent, “Our new clinic will bring life saving upgrades and services that will benefit all of Board- man, Port of Morrow and the surrounding Morrow County area-we can’t wait to welcome our first patient in our new building.” YOUR CHOICE- $ 5 . 9 9 POWER SERVICE M -l EMERGENCY D iesel Fuel S u pplem ent ( I q t) # 8 0 2 5 = OR | POWER SERVICE DIESEL FUEL SUPPLEMENT D iesel P o w e r Service ( I Q t . ) # 1 0 2 5 ALSO SAVE ON THE 80 OZ SIZE Diesel Fuel Supplement #1080................... $11 99 9-1-1 Emergency Supplement #8080 $11.99 M o rro w C o u n ty G rain G ro w e rs
