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Category: Health Care
TILLAMOOK COUNTY WELLNESS: Holly Riendeau-Local Behavioral Health Clinician on Problem Gambling
March is Problem Gambling Awareness Month and Tillamook County Wellness with partner Tillamook Family Counseling Center provides a Q&A with Holly Riendeau, TFCC’s problem gambling counselor What is your role at the…
OHA to change COVID-19 reporting frequency
PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon Health Authority (OHA) will stop distributing a daily media release about COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths (including individual death summaries), effective Monday, April 4. Daily information about new COVID-19…
TBCC Awarded $425,000 to launch a Nursing Program
Tillamook Bay Community College (TBCC) has been awarded $425,000 from to help launch a nursing program for Tillamook County. TBCC was personally informed by Representative Kurt Schrader last week that they had…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY WELLNESS: Tailoring Social Media to Improve Your Mental Health
By Erin Washbon, OHSU Dietetic Intern Social media is a mixed bag of sorts. It can lead to poor sleep quality, and fuel mental and emotional fatigue. It can be a very…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS COVID-19 RESPONSE: 59th and 60th COVID-19 Related Deaths Reported in Tillamook County March 21, 2022
TILLAMOOK, Ore. — Tillamook County Public Health Department was notified of two COVID-19 related deaths that occurred in January 2022, raising the Tillamook County COVID-19 pandemic death toll to 60. Tillamook County’s 59th COVID-19…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY DAILY WEATHER BRIEFING: Gordon’s Update – 3/22/22 – COVID-19 Case Update
By Gordon McCraw Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 08:45am Weather We still have a little patchy light rain or drizzle lingering this morning but with a ridge of high pressure moving in conditions should slowly…
Self-Care Workshop for Parents & Youth March 28th, Free Virtual Presentation
Tillamook Family Counseling Center and Northwest Parenting are providing this free Self Care Workshop on March 28th from 6:00 PM – 7:30PM on the virtual platform, Zoom. In this presentation participants will…
Oregon surpasses 700,000 COVID-19 cases, ranks second lowest in cases per capita nationwide; Community resilience helps get through next stages of pandemic
This week Oregon crossed the threshold of 700,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19. Oregon now ranks second lowest among states in the number of cases per capita (16,596 per 100,000). However, the pandemic…
Columbia Pacific invests more than $530,000 in programs providing mental health care and substance use disorder treatment
SEASIDE, Oregon — Columbia Pacific CCO, part of the CareOregon family of companies, announced investing $536,533 in grants to programs that help meet the growing demand for mental health care and substance…