Success Stories by State: Oregon

• Health Future, LLC- Oregon
  October 2009
  Health Future is a unique shared services organization jointly owned by Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and six other Oregon hospitals.
• Replicating Best Practices to Improve Access to Health Care Services and to Reduce Rural Health Disparities for Children
  July 2009
  Several Health Professionals were hired to help children overcome a number of health disparities and access barriers in rural Oregon.
• Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital Community Clinic
  May 2009
  The Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital Community Clinic was established to provide primary medical and preventive services for low-income and uninsured residents.
• Serving the Working Poor, Retaining Health Care Providers, and Planning for Best Management Practices: The Challenges Met by a Network of Rural Health Care Providers
  May 2009
  The purpose of this project was to stabilize and sustain the practices of three area providers who were vital to safeguarding the health of residents.
• Waterfall Clinic
  May 2009
  The Coos County Waterfall Clinic offered many services to low-income families in the area.
• Healthy Nations Initiative
  October 2008
  The Healthy Nations Initiative was funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help Native Americans reduce the harm caused by substance abuse in their communities.
• Board and Executive Team Facilitation: Medford, Oregon
  March 2008
  Describes a Board and Executive Team facilitation of strategic planning for hospitals.
• EMS Live @ Nite
  June 2007
  EMS Live @ Nite is an interactive video conferencing program to help educate volunteer emergency medical services personnel who don’t have easy access to training sites.
• Angel Flight West: A Higher Level of Kindness
  June 2007
  Angel Flight West provides free, private air transportation for people with medical and other needs.
• Rural Chronically Ill Women: Online Support Network (aka "Women to Women")
  April 2007
  The Women to Women Project (WTW) aims to help isolated rural women with chronic illnesses adapt more successfully to living with their conditions in the face of limited access to health information and services.
• Heart Health: A Rural Prevention and Treatment Program
  January 2007
  The high incidence of cardiovascular disease and stroke, coupled with the growing over age 65 population in Josephine County supports the critical need for this proposed rural outreach project entitled Heart Health: A Rural Prevention and Treatment Program.
• Rural Health Care Services Outreach Project
  January 2007
  The Rural Health Care Services Outreach project will establish a program of integrated primary and behavioral health using elements of successful, HRSA-sponsored Health Disparities Collaborative models.
• Steps to Wellness/Pasos a Salud
  January 2007
  This project is intended to improve the emotional and physical well-being of our rural community residents by providing individual and group support and education to people suffering from diabetes and/or obesity.
• Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2005
  Consortium partner members designed the Harney County Rural Health Outreach Program to expand and enhance an established mobile primary clinic through patient education, increased trips per month, and increased patient visits per trip through a dial-a-ride program.
• Integrated Primary and Behavioral Health Care
  July 2005
  This project provided case management, integrated behavioral health care, risk reduction services, provider retention initiatives, and transportation for targeted low-income and working-poor families.
• Rural Health Outreach (Gold Beach, Oregon)
  July 2005
  The project's overriding mission was to stabilize the local clinic while providing health promotion and prevention opportunities in the core areas of heart, breathing, cancer, and diabetes.
• Senior Peer Counseling Project
  July 2005
  Composed of 16 agencies and professional organizations that provide services to seniors in the region, this project was developed to serve seniors age 60 and above who were suffering from mild to moderate situational depression.