The Western Oregon Center for Pediatric Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (WOC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Yamhill County with the mission to empower children and families by providing education and programs for healthy living. WOC provides services within three categories: family nutrition education, family fitness, and community wellness promotion.
Throughout the month of June, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Transformation Center is offering a 5-part webinar series focused on clinic-level strategies to increase effective contraceptive use.
In 2017, Oregon’s coordinated care organizations (CCOs) will be accountable for reducing cigarette smoking prevalence among their members. To support CCOs, clinics, and providers working on this incentive measure, the Oregon Health Authority Transformation Center recently released a list of the best evidence-based resources for tobacco cessation counseling.
As the Chief of Support Services at The Portland Clinic I interact with and see the fatigue caused by measurement every day. This fatigue is what drew the primary care physicians who are part of Portland Coordinated Care Association (PCCA), to focus on this issue.
Adolescent Well Visit rates are traditionally low, particularly in Oregon where averages have been below the national benchmark for both Commercial and Medicaid populations. The Institute talked with Westside Pediatrics about what they have done to get adolescents in for these visits.
Obstacles to primary care behavioral health implementation in primary care practices inspired a group of experts across the state to form the Integrated Behavioral Health Alliance of Oregon in 2014.
The Oregon Foundation for Reproductive Health's One Key Question® initiative aims to better integrate preventive reproductive care into primary care.
Michael Oyster, LPC, CADCIII was hired in May by Addictions & Mental Health at the Oregon Health Authority as the agency’s Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Specialist.
