Our partner St. Charles Health System recently shared their new priority focus area. Here is their announcement: Every three years, St. Charles Health System chooses a community benefit priority where we will focus our...
Funding for COVID-19 related requests under $5,000 still available (Central Oregon)– The Central Oregon Health Council (COHC) awarded its 41st COVID-19 Mini-grant on Wednesday last week. Emergency funding for COVID-19...
On February 21st of this year, Governor Kate Brown declared May Oregon’s Older Americans Month. We at the Central Oregon Health Council encourage you to support the physical, mental, social and emotional well-being of...
Children’s dental nonprofit passes torch to primary care Bend, OR – Bend-based Kemple Memorial Children’s Dental Clinic announced today that, effective July 1, 2020, the organization will close its doors and its...
We have released our 2016-2019 Central Oregon Regional Health Improvement Plan. Please click on the image to download.....
The Central Oregon Health Council is pleased to name Donna Mills as their new Executive Director. For the article at KTVZ please click on this logo: For the article in The Bulletin please click on this...
Summit looks at ways to reduce opioid abuse in Central Oregon Although heroin deaths in Oregon dropped in 2013, prescription opioid abuse is still widespread across the state, and is partially to blame for a spike in the use...
Column: It’s time for action on opioid abuse Oregonians are prescribed more than 100 million opioid pain pills every year — more than 25 opioid pills for every man, woman and child. In Oregon, we rank second in the...
GRAND ROUNDS Fridays from 0700 – 0800, in Classrooms C&D on the St. Charles Bend campus, and broadcast live via videoconference to Madras, Prineville, Redmond, Burns, John Day, and Lakeview. September 18, 2015 –...