La Clinica News
La Clinica Mobile Health Center arrives - December 30, 2011
La Clinica registered nurse Ginny Friesen talks about the organization's new mobile health center, which will begin service at three schools in January. Watch the full story on KOBI Channel 5....READ MORE
La Clinica's 18,000-square-foot dental clinic takes shape - December 12, 2011
The interior of La Clinica's new, 18,000-square-foot clinic at 1113 Progress Drive, just east of Biddle Road, is beginning to look more like a dental office. The clinic is scheduled to open in April. ...READ MORE
La Clinica mobile health center due to open - December 2, 2011
La Clinica will soon have a mobile health center to serve the community. The nonprofit health care organization received a $456,890 grant to improve children's access to health care through a capital ...READ MORE
Vaccine opt out high - November 30, 2011
Phyllis Wetzel, a nurse at La Clinica's Kids Health Connection at Jackson Elementary School in Medford, talks about child immunization opt outs. They are unusual at Jackson, where Kids Health Connecti...READ MORE
Dental clinic receives grant - November 17, 2011
A new dental clinic for low-income families is closer to being a reality, thanks to a $300,000 grant to help construction of a clinic in east Medford. Watch full story on KDRV Channel 12.
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Local health centers receive federal grants - August 11, 2011
Two local health care clinics that serve low-income residents have been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funds that will allow them to expand their reach. Read full Mail Tribune sto...READ MORE
Mobile health center funded - August 9, 2011
La Clinica won a $650,000 renewable federal grant and will use the money to operate a mobile health center. The Medford-based nonprofit will receive the annual grant from the federal government with h...READ MORE
Local clinics prepare for influx - August 3, 2011
New federal guidelines should lead to better care for women, La Clinica's Linda Whitlow says in this story about the rules that mandate coverage for preventative services beginning in August 2012.&nbs...READ MORE
Medical agencies receive federal funding - July 15, 2011
La Clinica and Community Health Centers each have received a half-million-dollar federal grant that will fund a mobile health center for schools and a telemedicine service connecting Upper Rogue sc...READ MORE
Dental center set to open next spring - July 10, 2011
Here's a Mail Tribune update on construction of La Clinica's East Medford Dental Clinic. The facility is scheduled to open in spring 2012, increasing La Clinica's ability to provide low-cost dental se...READ MORE
La Clinica brings in med students - July 8, 2011
La Clinica has launched a partnership with Oregon Health & Science University to bring third-year medical students to Southern Oregon for five-week clinical rotations. Read the full story...READ MORE
Medical students to learn at La Clinica - July 8, 2011
Medical students are headed to the Rogue Valley to learn from doctors at La Clinica. All third-year medical students at Oregon Health and Science University go on rotations around the state; now La Cl...READ MORE
La Clinica poverty simulation (KOBI report) - July 1, 2011
A KOBI Channel 5 reporter speaks with Maternal Child Health Coordinator Linda Whitlow about her role in the June 30, 2011, poverty simulation La Clinica conducted at North Medford High School. Watch v...READ MORE
La Clinica poverty simulation - June 30, 2011
Poverty is still an issue all across the country, and the Rogue Valley is no exception. Today, La Clinica staff members spent the day working with their employees in hopes they can understand what ...READ MORE
Project Homeless Connect brings big crowds - June 23, 2011
La Clinica outreach nurse Sarah Hyman is featured in a story about June 22's Project Homeless Connect at the Medford Armory. La Clinica and a host of community partners provided free care and resource...READ MORE
Cause on the Roof: Maria Underwood speaks about services - June 23, 2011
Development Director Maria Ramos Underwood speaks to Robert Sacks, general manager at Medford Nissan, as part of an event dubbed Cause on the Roof. Sacks is speaking to representatives of area nonprof...READ MORE
La Clinica board member, wife honored for community work - May 25, 2011
Southern Oregon University has awarded its 2011 President's Medal to Ashland residents Jerry and Jeanne Taylor, creators of the Taylor Family Foundation and active supporters of SOU and many Rogue ...READ MORE
Growing pains: Tests find weight issues among local students - April 15, 2011
A Mail Tribune story features the OHSU nursing students working with La Clinica in an obesity screening program in Jackson County schools. La Clinica nurses Katie Broom and Dawn Wille are featur...READ MORE
A different kind of prenatal care - April 15, 2011
Medford's KDRV Channel 12 profiles La Clinica's Centering Pregnancy program. Centering is a nationwide trend in prenatal care and is becoming popular with women who appreciate the support and communit...READ MORE
Orgullo Hispano: Maria Ramos Underwood - April 1, 2011
Talent-based Revista Caminos magazine profiles La Clinica Development Director Maria Underwood in its April issue.
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La Clinica joins the social network - March 31, 2011
A local clinic serving a growing population is taking full advantage of technology. La Clinica is using the social giant Facebook to keep its patients and the community informed. Watch the full KDRV s...READ MORE
La Clinica upgrades web presence - March 30, 2011
La Clinica, a group of nonprofit community health centers based in Medford, has launched a new website and a Facebook page.
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Centered on birth: New program at La Clinica Women's Health Center puts focus on healthy babies - March 21, 2011
More than family ties influenced Karley Grandy's choice of partner at her monthly prenatal exams.
Grandy's niece, Sarah Rondeau, also is pregnant — her March due date just days apart from her a...READ MORE
Nourishing trend: Lactation-support programs keep Oregon No. 1 breast-feeding state in nation - March 20, 2011
Less than two weeks after delivering her daughter, first-time mom Kimberly Larson proudly points out Abigail's rapid weight gain. "She's a week and a half old, and she's already 7-15," sa...READ MORE
Low-cost health care - February 3, 2011
Even after a costly on-the-job injury put machinist Clinton McDonald out of work, he never worried about finding affordable health care in the Medford area.
McDonald and his wife's limited income q...READ MORE
La Clinica sees spike in patients - February 2, 2011
A Rogue Valley nonprofit healthcare organization is seeing its biggest increase in patients in five years.
La Clinica says it served more than 17,000 people in 2010, up 13.5 percent from 2009. Offi...READ MORE
Governor releases 2011-13 budget - February 1, 2011
Governor's proposed budget could affect funding for health care. Focus on effect of proposed state budget on La Clinica starts at the 1:28 mark in this segment.
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CEO Brenda Johnson interview on - December 17, 2010
"Jefferson Exchange" radio host Geoffrey Riley talks with La Clinica Chief Executive Officer Brenda Johnson about La Clinica’s role in the community.
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CEO Brenda Johnson 'Five on Five' interview - December 17, 2010
La Clinica Chief Executive Officer Brenda Johnson talks about the organization and its future as part of the KOBI Channel 5 "Five On Five" series of newsmaker interviews.
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La Clinica expands dental care services in Medford - December 16, 2010
A nonprofit Medford health clinic plans to open a large dental clinic by the end of 2011 in Medford to increase dental care for lower-income families and individuals in Jackson County.
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La Clinica announces plans to open Medford dental clinic - December 15, 2010
MEDFORD, Ore. - Uninsured people in Jackson County will soon have a place to turn for dental care.
On Wednesday, the nonprofit group La Clinica unveiled plans to opened a dental clinic in Med...READ MORE
Healthy Start faces budget cuts - September 14, 2009
Jackson County's Healthy Start program, hosted at La Clinica Family Health Care in Medford, will serve up to 64 fewer families because of a more than 20 percent cut in state funding, said Anne Daugher...READ MORE
La Clinica wins big grant - October 31, 2008
A $450,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation will help push La Clinica closer to its $3.5 million-fundraising goal for its new Central Point clinic. The nonprofit health-care provider announced Thursda...READ MORE
La Clinica begins half-day operation - April 21, 2008
CENTRAL POINT — With a 13-week waiting list at its two Medford facilities, supporters for La Clinica's new health center on Hamrick Road have opened a temporary clinic on site and are pushing to meet ...READ MORE
La Clinica receives a big grant, and a big challenge Mail Tribune, Sept. 22, 2007 - September 22, 2007
La Clinica is celebrating a new grant to run its Central Point Health Center and gearing up for a fundraising campaign to raise the building that will house the clinic. The $650,000 federal gran...READ MORE
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