Category Archive: Rural Health
Nichole Maher: Community Outreach Report
As someone who grew up in a very rural community in Lincoln County, Oregon, I feel that I have a real understanding of how each location in our region is geographically and culturally unique. One thing my experience taught me is that I have so ...
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What do driver’s licenses have to do with healthy food?
I first heard this provocative question during a food systems summit organized by the Northwest Regional Convergence Partnership - a collaboration that includes the Northwest Health Foundation, the Meyer Memorial Trust and Kaiser Permanente ...
CCO Conference Highlights Health Transformation
I spent the last two days at CCO Oregon’s “Transforming Care 2013” conference where I was excited to learn how communities throughout the state are working to achieve real integration between health and health care. It was an encouraging ...
Tricia Tillman: “Social Determinants of Health” and Equity Not Always Aligned
Health advocates tend to agree that addressing the social determinants of health can be an effective path to health equity. Public investments in affordable housing, education, transportation, and economic justice can reduce disparities by race, ...
Can Oregon Learn Health Transformation from Alaska?
Three NWHF staff - president Nichole Maher, program officer Alejandro Queral and I - have just returned from a three-day visit to Southcentral Foundation, an Alaska Native-owned, nonprofit health care organization serving nearly 60,000 people ...
Photo Contest: We Have our Winners!
Panel of youth selects the final winners in the fourth annual event.
Attention fans of youth, health, and photography: Winners have been selected for the Oregon Youth Public Health Photo Contest 2012. The contest is a partnership between ...
A Report from Curry County
As Jan Kaplan, director of Curry County health department, explains how the county got into its financial mess and what it means for the future of public health, it dawns on me that perhaps the timing couldn’t be better. With health care ...
Public Health Accreditation: Why? A conversation with Alejandro Queral
In March 2012, Northwest Health Foundation announced a grant opportunity to support public health accreditation efforts at county and tribal health departments.
Alejandro Queral, NWHF program officer, sat down with public health consultant ...
Photo Contest Winners to be Announced Mid-May
Once again, NWHF is pleased to partner with the Oregon Public Health Division to launch 2012 Oregon Youth Photo Contest. The deadline for entries was April 15, 2012.
Winners will be selected on May 10, 2012, and announced soon after. Stay tuned ...
Health Care Transformation: The Opportunities Ahead
Oregon has just taken a bold step forward toward transforming its health care system. The legislature’s passage of SB 1580 will now allow communities to create “coordinated care organizations” (CCOs) — teams of nurses, doctors, mental ...NWHF Event Report: Telling the story of health
Earlier this year, NWHF held a workshop featuring two national presenters sharing their perspectives about storytelling frameworks and techniques. The purpose of the session was to help our nonprofit community engage stakeholders, develop ...
Calling Out Hypocritical Factory Food Industry
In a recent editorial in the Washington Post, Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, attacked the factory farming industry – in this case he was referring to American Farm Bureau president Bob Stallman – for misusing the term ...
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