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The INDEPENDENT, April 3, 2003 Health Notas - By Audeen Wagner Providence Family Medicine Health Fair: On May 10, the public is invited to a Health Fair at the Ver nonia clinic. It’s a great time to learn more about the clinic, meet personnel, pick up valuable information about health care and disease prevention; you might even get your blood pressure checked free of charge, enjoy some refreshments, socialize, and much, more. Details about this important event will be forthcoming. But for now, mark your calendars for May 10. The Health Fair is shaping up to be an interesting and in formative day. This is one hot rate! Í: Í- Page 9 W « I A W ...... -........*-• - * Emergencies? Call 9-1-1! If you are having chest pains and suspect you are having a heart attack, here is some good advice from the clinic: Judy Hargis, P.A., suggests, “Lie down. Call 9-1-1. Take an aspirin." The important message here is that the local clinic is not set up to help with this kind of emergency, and the patient will get immediate help from the trained specialists that can be accessed via 9-1-1. So, if you are experiencing severe bleeding from an injury, threatening a stroke or heart attack, or any life-threatening situation, it certainly makes sense to dial 9-1-1. Providence Family Medicine-Vernonia does not have supplies or equipment to handle serious emergencies; nor is it a walk-in, urgent care facility. So, they are ad vising patients NOT to stop by the clinic first in cases where emergency care is war- ranted. “Our first concern is the health of our patients,” said Judy, “and sometimes this means calling 9-1-1 at the first sign of a problem, rather than the clinic.” Time is of the essence. Please call the clinic if you have questions regarding this. Oregon Health Plan Requirements Z Confused pears,star tirchasing (row il» lie doll » primal iißnareh 5me to a M ance, ¿Tof trover foveinom, the IJ foinniittee* Ü.S. Ban eeonf reasoi ietivesi Syst ists of vem ory ces, an< ieral \u Market Committed id res»? mes. Ì feral Resede Systi led.«® Dec. 23, J9H give i c o iú ^ r tia l nprove ave b< J. Over £nt, stai fc purehas. •s with othe míe y Home Equity about Oregon Health Plan changes and rules? PFM-Vernonia is currently closed to all new patients with OHP-Open Card. People who have OHP Open Card and are already established patients with the clinic are eligible to be seen. Any question you may have regarding your status as an OHP member should be directed to your case worker (the phone number is on your card). MammOVan: The next visit of the Mammovan will be April 23. Appointments for mammograms may be made by calling the clinic, 503-429-9191. » fe n ™ •need Rate W 20 20 beats’, Loan Fixe Take advantage of the lowest loan rate in 40 years! 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S .W X , fixed APR is available fo r terms up to 2 0 years on home equity loansjvttb automatic payment from any U.S. Bank d e c k in g account and a loan-tu-valuc (L T V ) o f 80"/,, or Free m o b ile h e a lth s c re e n in g sp o n so red by V ernonia Lions The Vernonia Lions Club is wonderful service to their com showing their commitment to munity by sponsoring these protecting the sight, hearing screenings.” and general health of their The visit of the Oregon Lions community by sponsoring the MSU is a community service Oregon Lions Mobile Health project of the Vernonia Lions Screening Unit (MSU) on Sat Club, and is the first visit of the urday, April 19 from 9:00 a.m. MSU since its inaugural stop in to 5:00 p.m. at the Vernonia Vernonia in 1995. Local health School District office building, care providers have volun 475 Bridge Street. The MSU teered to provide the screen will provide free health screen ings. Please note that a mini- ing to the public for visual acu . mum three-hour fast (no food ity, hearing, blood pressure, di or drink other than black coffee, abetes and glaucoma. tea or water) is required for the The MSU Program, run by diabetes screening. A six-hour the Oregon Lions Sight and fast is preferred. Participants Hearing Foundation, has pro are also encouraged to recycle vided free health screenings to prescription eyeglasses and Oregon communities since hearing aids while visiting the 1994. These health screenings MSU. are open to all adults and to Vision and hearing have children with written parental long been projects of the Lions permission. Each year, the Clubs, following the challenge MSU Program provides free issued to them at a national public health screenings to meeting in 1925 by Helen roughly 6,000 adults statewide Keller to become the “knights of and free school screenings in the blind.” The MSU program is visual acuity and hearing to a joint project of the 250 Lion about 14,000 students. Stu and Lioness and Auxiliary dents at Lincoln and Washing Clubs in Oregon and the Ore ton Grade Schools will receive gon Lions Sight and Hearing free sight and hearing tests on Foundation, a non-profit organ April 17 and 18, repectively. ization formed by the Lions and “We are proud to partner dedicated to serving Lions with the Vernonia Lions Club to Clubs by supporting their ef offer these free health screen forts in humanitarian assis ings to the community,” said tance, including, but not limited Brenda Anderson, MSU Pro to, sight, hearing, diabetes grams Coodinator. “The Ver awareness and positive youth nonia Lions Club is doing a development.
