Health forum Monday in Pullman

[Kenton Bird <kbird@uidaho.edu>]

Visionaries:
The Pullman League of Women Voters has asked me to publicize a forum on
Monday, March 27, at Pullman city hall  Unfortunately, there are no
representatives from Gritman Medical Center on the panel.
However, because health services in Pullman are used by Moscow residents
(and vice versa), there may be some interest among Moscow folks in
attending.  I hope the Daily News will cover the event, too.
--Kenton
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March 14, 2000
  Contact:    Kurtzi Anderson, 509-332-6400
                  Lucy Linden, 509-332-2755
  PRESS RELEASE
  (For Release after March 20, 2000)

  FORUM:    Health Care on the Palouse
          March 27, 2000
          7:30 p.m.
          Council Chambers, Pullman City Hall
          Sponsors:    Pullman League of Women Voters, and City of
Pullman
          Speakers:    Scott Adams, Pullman Memorial Hospital
Administrator
                              Tricia Grantham, Director of Operations,
Council on Aging
                                  and Human Services
                              Annie Kier, Executive Director, Palouse
Hills Nursing
                                  Center
                              Fran Martin, Director of Public Health,
Whitman County
                                  Health Department
                              Deena Rauch, R.N., Director of Patient and
Clinical
                                  Services, Whitman Hospital and Medical
Center
                              David Spencer, M.D.
                              Rita Swindal, Volunteer, Council on Aging
and Human
                                  Service
      Many local citizens lack basic information about making choices
for health care services
  and facilities until they find themselves in urgent need of them.  To
help full this knowledge
  gap, the League of Women Voters and the City of Pullman are
co-sponsoring a public
  meeting on Health Care on the Palouse.  This forum will be at 7:30
p.m., March 27, in the
  Council Chambers of the Pullman City Hall.

      Speakers will include hospital administrators, health care
providers and volunteers in local
  health care activities.  They will offer information about health care
services and facilities
  available to residents of the Palouse that encompass hospital
services, in-home care, assisted
  living, adult and nursing home facilities.  In reviewing the curent
situation panelists will also
  point out areas where clarification of regulations and public policy
changes could create more
  options and better access to care in the community.

      There will be an opportunity to ask questions of the speakers:
Scott Adams, Pullman
  Memorial Hospital Administrator; Tricia Grantham, Director of
Operations, Council on Aging
  and Human Services; Annie Kier, Executive Director, Palouse Hills
Nursing Center; Fran
  Martin, Director of Public Health, Whitman County Health Department;
Deena Rauch, R.N.,
  Director of Patient and Clinical Services, Whitman Hospital and
Medical Center; David
  Spencer, M.D.; Rita Swindal, Volunteer, Council on Aging and Human
Services.  For more
  information, call 509-332-2755 or 509-332-6400.