The INDEPENDENT, April 3, 2003
Health Notas
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.