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Jun
13
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The NW Center for Public Heath Practice presents “Hot Topics in Preparedness“, a monthly online hour-long forum on topics of crucial importance to the public health practice community. The upcoming topic for June 19 is The Art of Dialogue: Collaboration in Public Health Preparedness. The Regional Medical Library will host a site for this webcast,… Read More »
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Jun
07
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The Pacific Northwest Region welcomes three new members to the National Network of Libraries of Medicine: Bartlett Regional Hospital Juneau, Alaska NN/LM Liaison: Dana Haff, Coordinator–Volunteer Services and Community Partnerships Central Oregon Project Homeless Connect Bend, Oregon NN/LM Liaison: Cindy Pasko Society of St. Vincent DePaul Bend, Oregon NN/LM Liaison: Cindy Pasko, Manager
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Apr
02
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Far too often, ordinary citizens are placed at risk for unsafe care because important health care information is communicated using medical jargon and unclear language that exceed their literacy skills, according to a call to action released in February 2007 by The Joint Commission in its newest public policy white paper, “What Did the Doctor… Read More »
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May
02
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For the last several months, the research office at Southcentral Foundation has held an internship program to encourage more Native people to consider careers in research. Current intern participants include Tara Bourdukofsky (Aleut), Andrei Jacobs (Yupik) and Therese Brown (Yupik). Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, the interns attended two training sessions to develop… Read More »
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Mar
10
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Kenai Community Library is the state of Alaska winner for the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) 2006 Health Awards competition, Librarian Julie Niederhause recently learned. The NCLIS Health Information Task Force is busily evaluating all the state winners’ entries in order to narrow the winners to ten finalists, whose representatives will… Read More »
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