Welcome Dr. Brian Temple
December 29, 2007 by Kenneth Carlson, MD
The Childhood Health family continues to grow. With the new year we are proud to announce Dr. Brian Temple coming to join our clinic. He recently graduated from top residency program at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. We are sure you will enjoy his quick smile as much as we do. He also speaks Spanish! Check out the All about us page for his full bio.
With the addition of new providers in recent months we have now “grown into” our new building. We hope this will continue to increase our accessibility to our patients and continue our goals of quality, available health care for our patients.
We want to wish everyone a happy and healthy 2008.
More flu shot arrived - Saturday clinics back on
December 7, 2007 by Kenneth Carlson, MD
I was just informed that we HAVE received more dosages and WILL be continuing to hold Saturday flu shot walk-in clinics for our patients for the next several weeks. We do recommend calling the day before to be sure we have adequate dosing for walk-in shot clinic. Planned to have 12/8 as usual and likely the next couple of Saturdays as well.
Sorry for the mixed messages.
Last flu shot clinic for season 12/1
November 27, 2007 by Kenneth Carlson, MD
We are getting low on our inventory and planning to have our last walk-in Saturday flu shot clinic for our patients on 12/1. We will have some doses remaining available by appointment. If your child is in a high risk group we strongly coming in this Saturday for an influenza vaccines. See previous post for more information about current recommendations regarding influenza vaccination.
Flu shot availability
November 5, 2007 by Kenneth Carlson, MD
[Updated 11/8: More dosages have arrived! Flu shot clinics will proceed as planned]
We temporarily have run out of flu shots for kids 3 years and up. Further dosages are on order and should arrive soon. Currently we still have adequate supplies of vaccine for children age 6 months to 36 months old. Keep an eye on the web site for updates. Be sure to check our web site or call the clinic prior to coming down for our Saturday flu clinics.
Phones out of order
October 17, 2007 by Kenneth Carlson, MD
[UPDATE 11/8/2007: We are experiencing some difficulties with our new system. Getting them to forward correctly at the beginning of the day and transferring to voice mail continues to not work 100%. Please bear with us as we have been seeing a lot of the phone technician lately.]
[UPDATE 10/30/2007: Phone system replacement is now complete and functioning great. Sorry for the inconvenience.]
We want to apologize to our families and patients. We have had intermittent phone outages this week. The intermittent outage turned into a more serious one on Tuesday 10/16 when the phone system died. We are quickly installing a temporary solution and promptly purchasing a full replacement. Unfortunately we may continue to have intermittent outages while this is being repaired.
Please be assured we are operating at our normal hours and our normal capacity as much as is possible. When phones are out we attempt to promptly have them forwarded to Salem Hospital and they can reach nurses and doctors at the office by pager. If you have already received your username and password for My Health Online that is an option to communicate with us as our internet access is not affected by current outages. Again we apologize and hope we can get back to smoother operations smooth.
Influenza shots are here
October 14, 2007 by Kenneth Carlson, MD
We just had our first successful Saturday shot clinic of the season. We will continue these until we run out of vaccine. Our first day had over 200 shots given! No appointment needed. Just show up between 9AM and 12 noon. We’ll add a notice on our site when we no longer have enough vaccine for walk-in clinics.
Remember all kids can benefit from a flu shot but the following groups are most at risk for complications from influenza:
* Children ages from 6 months old to 5th birthday
* People with asthma and other chronic lung diseases
* History of diabetes, heart problems or other chronic diseases
Check out previous post discussing full recommendations for influenza vaccination.
New pediatrician and physician assistant joining in September
August 19, 2007 by Kenneth Carlson, MD
We are proud to announce the addition of two new members of the Childhood Health family. Jenny Hoelter, MD is joining us in September. She recently completed her training in Vermont and has moved back to Oregon. She has two children including a young infant. We commend her for starting a new job and moving across the country soon after the birth of her second child. More information on our All About Us page.
Also joining us in September is Krisi Kamstra, PA. She is a recent graduate of OHSU physician assistant program. We know her well already as she did the pediatric part of her training with us. We are proud to have her as part of our growing clinic.
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