FOUR - Heppner Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon Wednesday, April 1, 2015
HEALTH DISTRICT
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mary Care Homes, which is
the highest designation and
will “demonstrate a more
complete commitment to
the patient centered primary
care home concepts,” ac-
cording to Grigg, and will
“result in additional reim-
bursement from Eastern
Oregon Coordinated Care
Organization.” The two
clinics are currently certi-
fied as Tier 2.
In other business, the
board:
-approved a $7,690
quote from Gordon’s Heat-
ing and Cooling, Pendleton,
to replace two existing Len-
nox package roof-top units
located on the roof of Pio-
neer Memorial Clinic. The
project received priority so
that it could be completed
before the summer season.
Thews Sheet Metal, Pendle-
ton, bid $8,620 and Eastern
Oregon Heating & AC,
Hermiston, bid $17,597.17.
-increased emergency
call time pay for nights
and weekends for providers
from $50 an hour while on
Emergency Medical Services Coordinator Rusty Estes dem-
onstrates to MCHD Board members one of the new $12,500
hydraulic Stryker gurneys purchased through funding from
CREZ, the Wildhorse Foundation and the MCHD Board. He
said that the new equipment, with a 700-pound lift capabil-
ity, will make transporting patients safer for the patients and
staff. –Photo by April Sykes
call and $90 while on-site
seeing patients to $75 an
hour and while on-site see-
ing patients.
-agreed to explore an
arrangement with Dr. Ken
Wenberg to cover a number
of week-day emergency call
days each month. Currently
clinic providers rotate emer-
gency call while also seeing
This house in Ione has been purchased for the town’s school-
based clinic site. –Photo by David Sykes
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a full schedule of patients,
so when a patient goes
to the emergency room,
scheduled clinic patients
are cancelled or delayed.
-approved medical staff
bylaws with a retroactive
telemedicine addition. Dr.
Anderson said she had been
reviewing the district’s by-
laws.
-approved amendments
to Pioneer Memorial Hos-
pital Medical Staff bylaws
to include telemedicine
providers.
-learned from Chief
Financial Officer Nicole
Mahoney that the district
saw a $278,132 gain for
the month. MCHD had
$748,314 in gross patient
revenue, $69,461 in to-
tal revenue deductions,
$122,740 in tax revenue,
$15,449 in other operat-
ing revenue for $955,964;
$760,291 in total operating
expenses, plus an $82,459
non-operating gain for the
month.
-received the following
report for February: Pioneer
Memorial Clinic had 405
patient visits for the month
with nine new patients,
28 seen by a nurse and 14
no-shows; Irrigon Medical
Clinic had 247 patient visits
for the month with 25 new
patients, 40 seen by a nurse
and 16 no-shows; Pioneer
Memorial Hospital had five
admissions for the month,
eight swing bed admis-
sions, nine admitted for
observation, one admitted
for hospital respite, one ad-
mitted to the swing nursing
facility, 442 outpatients, 84
emergency room encoun-
ters, 1,594 lab tests, 120
x-ray procedures, 13 CT
scans, 19 EKG tests, three
treadmill procedures, three
colonoscopy procedures,
three endoscopy proce-
dures, one colon/endoscopy
procedure; Heppner Ambu-
lance had 32 page-outs with
27 transports for $42,363;
Boardman Ambulance had
36 page-outs with 15 trans-
ports for $25,637; Irrigon
Ambulance had 25 page-
outs with 16 transports for
$20,416; there were two
flights; Home Health had
103 nursing visits; Hos-
pice had two admissions;
Pharmacy had 2769 drug
doses for $63,370 in drug
revenue.
Two-day tournament
leaves Mustang softball
1-4 for the season
Heppner softball is 1-4
for the season after suf-
fering three disappointing
losses in the Heppner Tour-
nament last week.
It was a two-day soft-
ball tournament Wednesday
and Thursday, March 25-
26, for the Mustangs with
Heppner playing Knappa
and Clatskanie.
Echo visited on
Wednesday and Pendle-
ton JV took their place on
Thursday.
On Wednesday Hep-
pner defeated Clatskanie,
2-1. Wednesday vs. Clats-
kanie, Morgan Correa went
two for three with two sin-
gles and Jessica Kempken
added a double.
Also on Wednesday,
Knappa defeated Heppner
12-0. Wednesday vs. Knap-
pa, Rylee Kollman went 2
for 2 with a single and a
triple and Caitlynn Bailey
added a single.
Thursday Knappa de-
feated Heppner 5-2. Cait-
lynn Bailey, Sydney Qualls
and Morgan Correa all con-
tributed singles and Meran-
da Lemmon added a triple.
Thursday Heppner lost
to Clatskanie 15-5. Jes-
sica Kempken and Meranda
Lemmon both went 2 for 4
at the plate.
Kempken had two sin-
gles and Lemmon, a single
HHS track jumps into
season with both feet
The Heppner High School track and field team is getting its
season started on the right foot. Above: Heppner’s Shayna
Osmin long jumps at the Pendleton Buck Track Classic. –
Contributed photo
Heppner’s track and
field team competed in the
Buck Track Classic Thurs-
day, March 19, at Pendleton
High School, making sev-
eral trips to the podium on
this first meet of the season.
In the wake of the meet,
Heppner athletes Kaden
Clark, Jacob Moses, Skyler
Palmer, Jerimiah Petzoldt,
Len Havermeier, Alex
Lindsay, Kelly Wilson,
and the men’s 4X100 relay
team of Skyler Palmer, Len
Havermeier, Kaden Clark
and Jacob Moses all main-
tain slots in the Oregon 2A
Top 10.
Full meet results are as
follows:
Mens Results
100 Meters - Varsity
9. Kaden Clark, 12.09a
52. Len Havermeier, 13.18a
200 Meters - Varsity
2. Kaden Clark, 24.68a
43. Joe Schmidt , 27.64a
400 Meters - Varsity
8. Jacob Moses, 56.07a
29. Joe Schmidt , 1:02.64a
800 Meters - Varsity
18. Skyler Palmer, 2:18.52
23. Jacob Moses, 2:25.18
29. Kane Sweeney, 2:46.19
1500 Meters - Varsity
29. Kane Sweeney, 5:34.62
30. Joe Schmidt, 5:35.81
31. Ryan Cecil, 5:45.06
300m Hurdles - 36” - Varsity
16. Alex Lindsay, 52.54a
4x100 Relay - Varsity
6. Skyler Palmer, Len Haver-
meier, Kaden Clark, Ja-
cob Moses, 47.39a
Shot Put - 12lb - Varsity
22. Jerimiah Petzoldt, 33-
01.50
Javelin - 800g - Varsity
6. Jerimiah Petzoldt, 128-02
High Jump - Varsity
3. Len Havermeier, 5-08.00
5. Alex Lindsay, 5-06.00
Long Jump - Varsity
4. Kaden Clark, 19-01.00
31. Skyler Palmer, 16-06.00
31. Len Havermeier, 16-
06.00
Triple Jump - Varsity
10. Alex Lindsay, 35-04.00
Womens Results
100 Meters - Varsity
46. Shayna Osmin, 15.78a
Shot Put - 4kg - Varsity
20. Kelly Wilson, 25-09.00
32. Cara Arbogast, 22-07.50
Long Jump - Varsity
4. Kelly Wilson, 14-11.00
35. Shayna Osmin, 9-10.00
Meranda Lemmon and Sydney Maben use teamwork to get
the Clatskanie player out in Wednesday’s game. –Photo by
Sandra Putman
and a triple.
DeLoach and Sydney Ma-
Sydney Qualls, Onna ben each added singles.