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Transforming health care in rural Oregon
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/spring-2020-issue-2/transforming-health-care-rural-oregon[caption align="left"]Sky Lakes Collaborative Health Center[/caption]The grand opening of the $50 million Sky Lakes Collaborative Health Center in Klamath Falls celebrated much more than the completion of a successful building project. The... Read More
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Doors of assistance
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/spring-2019-issue-1/doors-assistanceIn 1971, a group of concerned residents in Hood River identified a need for a residential treatment facility for troubled youth. They launched The Next Door out of a rented farmhouse, offering treatment and beds to 10 youth. Nearly 50... Read More
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Handheld computers, videos, telemedicine
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2011-issue-2/handheld-computers-videos-telemedicineOur world is not the same as it was a half-century ago, and it’s hard to believe that, in another 50 years, our children will be saying the same thing. Here’s just a glimpse of the changes that have happened in key areas of rural lives,... Read More
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Keeping health care close to home
URL: https://www.tfff.org/community-vitality/fall-2012-issue-2/keeping-health-care-close-homeIn the early 1990s, a group of residents in Condon began exploring the idea of establishing an assisted-living center. The facilities nearest to Condon, the seat of the northeastern Oregon county of Gilliam, were more than a hundred miles... Read More